BY NICHOLAS MICHELL, ESQ.* (With Ittuslration.') IT was a wild and lonely shore, Girded by rocks; the sea-bird's cry, The billow's everlasting roar, The tempest, howling through the sky, The only sounds—as though Despair Sat...
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I HAVE been asked to write an article on 'shops' or 'hidden treasure shops' as we now call them and wonder just where and how to begin.
I think I'll go back to 1962 when we had our first shop. There were...
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MEENLARAGH, Co. DONEGAL. At about four in the afternoon of 7th March, 1942, the motor boat Pride of Drumcliffe, with a crew of six men, was returning to the mainland with mails from Tory Island. As she got near the island in Innishbofin Bay,...
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First Cuffley Scout troop raised money by building a paper 'mountain1—15 tons of waste paper and card. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Hertfordshire Mercury.. - View image in PDF
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 137 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 28 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1938 .... 65,849
Grace Darling...
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The Chairman of the Management Committee, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- Quin, R.N., pictured with life-boat officials and members of the crew at Blackpool on 26th February, 1967.. - View image in PDF
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The 52-foot Arm class life-boat on a visit to London in June, 1971, when she was moored at Decca Pier near Lambeth Bridge. She was built at Messrs. William Osborne's yard at LMlehampton, the hull was designed by Mr. J. A. McLachlan ofG.... - View image in PDF
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[The Yachting Monthly of March 1952 published an account by Mr.
D. K. Rae of a trip in his W-feet auxiliary yacht Sirius. It started from the Crouch, but the Sirius grounded on the Buxey Sand off Clacton. The crew laid out...
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Atlantic 21 Blue Peter II, with Peter Purves on board, launches into the Menai Straits.. - View image in PDF
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Robert Norgren Chief Executive of the British Sub Aqua Club Christens Harwich's New Atlantic 21. - View image in PDF
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