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24 the advertizer t: 01505 613340 e: info@advertizer.co.uk Local Financial Planner is a Finalist in 3 Top Awards A local Multi Award Winning Independent Financial Planner has been chosen from thousands of financial advisers in the UK as a finalist in trio of prestigious finance industry awards. Carl Melvin, Managing Director of Affluent Financial Planning Ltd based on Main Street, Bridge of Weir has been nominated in three top financial planning awards. Carl is one of only three financial planners in the UK to be shortlisted in the “leading adviser practice” category of the prestigious Aberdeen UK Platform Awards 2015. This recognises financial planning firms that have successfully employed leading edge technology to deliver outstanding service to their clients. Carl is also a Finalist in the Investment Life & Pensions Moneyfacts Awards 2015 in the Tax & Estate Planner of the Year category. Carl has been a finalist in these awards on four previous occasions (three times in the Tax & Estate Planner category). These awards confirm outstanding technical knowledge and planning skills in those chosen as finalists. The third nomination is in the Wealth and Finance International Awards 2015 which recognise and reward excellence, best practice and innovation throughout the worldwide finance industry. Carl commented “I am delighted to be chosen as a Finalist in these awards. At Affluent FP, our focus on delivering first class service to our clients has been a major contributor in being selected for these very prestigious awards” Affluent Financial Planning specialise in providing a comprehensive lifestyle financial planning service to private clients with investment assets of £250,000 or more and/or families with annual income of £100,000 or more. See Affluent’s Lifestyle Financial Planning video at www.affluentfp. co.uk Call for a FREE financial review on 0871 702 9490 or pop in to the Affluent office opposite Amaretto Restaurant on Main Street, Bridge of Weir. with Colin Fyfe of Colcom For those of you invested in Windows 10 who are happy enough with the installation and willing to persevere with the changes the OS offers, I have a couple of useful tips that might make it a little more accessible. These tips will translate to Windows 8 to a degree, although the method is a little different. A big change that 10 presents is the new style of Start menu, bottom left. Although, thankfully here we have access to our ‘Shut Down’ options again we don’t have ready access to what used to be called ‘All Programs’ or ‘Programs’ in 7. Instead we are presented with the ‘Search Bar’ for finding programs or ‘apps’ - for reasons that point to Microsoft’s new direction for desktop search. Anyway, I still like Classic Shell, available at www.ninite.com/classicshell. This may have migrated across on update from Windows 8 if you had it previously but I recommend it as a Start Menu on both platforms. Another idea, to make your files that little more accessible through browsing rather than search, is to create the desktop shortcuts for ‘This PC’ (formerly ‘my computer’) and perhaps My Files and even perhaps Control Panel too. Right Click on the Desktop, select ‘Personalise’ at the bottom of the drop down menu, then select on the left ‘Themes’. In this window go to ‘Desktop Icon Settings’ and select the options you would like. Finally, for those who are unwilling to commit to the update for now and are getting pestered by the Windows 10 icon by the clock, you can disable this. Right click on the clock bottom right. Select, ‘Customise Notifications’ and look for ‘GWX’, roll the drop down list to ‘Hide Icon and Notifications’.
www.advertizer.co.uk october 2015 LOCAL history Excavation at Paisley Abbey structures associated with the Abbey had been uncovered, including the outer surface of the Paisley Abbey Drain, a beautiful cobbled area and what was considered to be a slate oven used by the monks.. From 31st August to 7th September, 2015, twenty members of Renfrewshire Local History Forum acted as volunteers, assisting the fourth excavation led by Bob Will of GUARD on the grass area opposite Paisley Abbey. In the previous excavations the remains of medieval Memorial - Bridge of Weir and the First World War 100 years ago this month – October 1915 James Hood, 7th Royal Scots Fusiliers The first day of the Battle of Loos on 25 September 1915 had already accounted for John Clark of Bridge of Weir but that day was not done with the village yet. James Hood’s father John was a currier at the leather works but James’s talent was golf. He became a professional at St. Andrews and in 1911 finished third in the Scottish Professional Championship. In 1912 he was appointed professional to Cork Muskerry Club, where he served the club for two years; but the club’s finances declined and they had to let him go with regret. By the time he had served his notice, war had begun and James volunteered. 25 25 This year’s excavation, as part of Doors Open Day, aimed to investigate the survival of other archaeological remains on the site. Our members were busy all week - digging, washing finds and recording the remains of structures. Fortunately, the weather was fine and the excavation had an excellent response from an interested public. Visitors on the Saturday of Doors Open Day included more than two hundred children who visited the site with their parents. Three trenches were dug on the site and we reached the foundation level of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings in Abbey Close. Unfortunately, time did not allow for further excavation. However, at the foundation level of the houses, pottery finds from the Medieval period were found. These included (from left to right) glazed tiles, plain roof tiles, ridge tiles and part of a handle. This confirmed that the Abbey Close houses had most probably been built on the site of the medieval abbey buildings. Renfrewshire Local History Forum’s first archaeology meeting in the 2015- 16 series takes place at 7.30pm on the 8th of October in Paisley Museum where Bob Will, who led the Abbey excavations, will give a talk on the work of GUARD Archaeology. Visitors are welcome at all our meetings. © 2015 Helen Calcluth, RLHF At Loos, he was in the 15th (Scottish) Division that gained much territory on that first day, but he became one of 408 casualties in his battalion, the7th Royal Scots Fusiliers. On 9 October Mrs Hood of Clachan Buildings, Main Street received a letter to say that James had been wounded in the arm and was on his way home. By the following week he was reported as “progressing slowly” at the Old Mill Hospital, Aberdeen. But parts of his tunic had entered his wound, infected it, and his right arm had to be amputated. James died on 30 October 1915, one of his sisters by his side. He was well-known and several hundred mourners followed his Union Jack draped coffin make its way from Clachan Buildings to Kilbarchan Cemetery behind a regimental pipe band with muffled drums playing the Dead March, the procession headed by Reverend Shand of the Parish Church. “Deceased was only 26 years of age, and was a young man of good physique and amiable character”. A tribute written for him begins: Not in the field of sport he won his fame, But in the crash of war, the greater game; Scorning the life of ease he might have led, He chose the patriot’s rugged path instead. Cork Muskerry still plays for the ‘Hood Wood’ trophy each year. Read more about James’s life and untimely death at www.bridgeofweirmemorial.co.uk Gordon Masterton Johnstone History Society Johnstone History Society’s October meeting is on Tuesday 13th October in the Masonic Hall, Collier Street, Johnstone at 7.30pm. Our speakers this month are Wendy Turner and Nicola Maksymuik and they will talking about The History and Collections of the Glasgow Women’s Library. This should prove to be an interesting evening. The Museum continues to open Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10.30am till 4pm. Calendars for 2016 are now on sale priced £7 each .This years theme is Johnstone then and now. Further information and old pictures of the town are available on our website at jonstonehistorymuseum.org.
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