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TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY
A TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY Simp Driveways money can buy Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique fibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and...
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Oljaren
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 12.38 on the morning of the 12th of April, 1951, the motor tanker Oljaren, of Gothenburg, bound for Stockholm from Curacoa with diesel oil, wirelessed that she had gone aground on Muckle Skerry in the Pentland Firth. At...
A taste for lifesaving
He owns a string of top eateries in London – so what is it that keeps restaurateur, chef and food writer Mark Hix coming back to the seaside?
There’s a force 7 off the Dorset coast, and...
Category: Articles
(Far Right! a Crew Member from the Yacht Is Helped
(far right! A crew member from the yacht is helped ashore from the lifeboat Photos. The Whitehaven News. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Gold Medals
THE rescue from the Greek motor vessel Nafsiporos, in which fifteen men were saved by the Holyhead and Moelfre lifeboats, will probably long be recalled as one of the great achievements in the life-boat service.
Coxswain...
Category: Medals
Silence Is Golden Rabbi Jonathan Romain
Silence is golden. Rabbi Jonathan Romain (r), minister of Maidenhead Synagogue, took part in a sponsored non-sermon in August. He toured shops and offices in Maidenhead and told people he would give them a 30 minute sermon on the merits of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Boat
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.5 on the after- noon of the 14th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, believed to be one in which the life-boat honorary secretary's son and two of his friends had put out earlier in the day....
Fanny Bailey
DUNDALK, Co. LOUTH.—On the 19th January, the schooner Fanny Bailey, of Dundalk, bound from Troon to that port with coal and iron, stranded on the bar during a gale from S.E. and heavy sea.
The Stockport Sunday School...
Dianna Moran Tv's 'Green Goddess' Fitness Expert
Keeping in trim: Dianna Moran, TV's 'Green Goddess' fitness expert, puts some of the younger guests through their paces at Christchurch branch's annual barbecue at the Avonmouth Hotel in July. She was official guest at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Centenary Life-Boat Bazaars
THE Centenary celebrations concluded, just before the Institution reached its 101st birthday, with two Bazaars, one in Birmingham and the other in London.
The Birmingham Bazaar, which was called the Life-boat International...
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