Boxing Day splash It's amazing what lengths some fundraisers go to! This photograph shows Llanfairfechan branch chairman, Rob Shiland, leading intrepid sponsored 'splashers' down the slipway into the freezing Boxing Day brine.<...
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RNLIs Busiest Lifeboat Station Of All, Tower. - View image in PDF
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Edward Wake-Walker, the RNLI's Public Relations Officer, visited the United States to look at...
Charities - the American Way The PRO'S visit to the USA was a Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and the entire costs of...
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Left page, main pic: Crew members are lifted from a tiferaft using a helicopter winch simulator as Instructor Dave Bitlingham looks on.. - View image in PDF
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Drawing the crowds The RNLI's 67th national lottery draw took place at the Institution's Poole headquarters on Monday 31 October 1994 when Miss Millvina Dean, aged 82 and the youngest survivor of the Titanic tragedy, drew the winning...
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Above: Plaque on the James and Catherine Macfarlane stating that the cost of the boat was defrayed by a gift from Mr. Robert F. Macfarlane in .
memory of his father and mother, (top right) Early stages in the building of... - View image in PDF
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• Grahame Farr's The Tubular Lifeboats 1850-1939 is in many ways the most interesting of his papers on lifeboat history. It is available from the author at 98 Combe Avenue, Portishead, Bristol BS20 9JX, price 60p including posting and...
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It pays to say thank you A year ago last September I went on a sequence dance holiday to Paignton, in Devon, with the Rita Carrudus School of Dancing, of Harlington, Middlesex. During the holiday, money was collected by means of raffles,...
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Two Action Studies of the Exmouth Irb Service Which Is Described On This Page. - View image in PDF
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Alors! Visitors to the Three Horseshoes at Turves, near Whittlesey, might have been forgiven for imagining they were in France rather than in the Fens of England. The landlord of the pub, exiled Frenchman Christian Kolich, and his wife Terri...
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