Sing United entertained a sell-out audience at the Discovery Museum, Newcastle, in their first show together as a choir – raising a remarkable £1,339 to help save lives at sea. Pupils from Stocksfield Avenue Primary School and Stormy...
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Thursday, 4th January, 1866. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., r.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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In Brief TO MARK his 50th birthday, Vincent Magrath of Tarn worth asked that instead of presents his fellow Rotarians and friends give their money to the RNLI. Chairman of Tamworth ladies' guild, Marion Appleby- Matthews, was invited to...
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Garden gnome By dressing up as a garden gnome in last year's Aldeburgh carnival, lifeboat supporter Mr M. H. Catterick won a personal bet for £100 which he very generously donated to the RNLI.
Netball shoot Eight...
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Galway. Early on the morning of the 23rd September, 1961, three men from Inishere Island rowed nine miles in an open boat to Kilronan to summon a doctor to attend a sick person on the island. Telephone communications with the island had...
What’s the best way to beat the January blues? Why, to hit the January sales of course!
If you shop online, use Give as you Live and the retailer will make a donation of up to 5% of the purchase price to the RNLI. It costs...
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The organisers of the Moelex 80 Business and Home Exhibition staged at the University of Essex for five days last spring, invited Colchester branch to set up a souvenir stand at the event. Here, Mrs Ruth Clarke, the honorary secretary,... - View image in PDF
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The rigid inflatable lifeboat Johannes Frederik pictured on a recent visit to RNLI headquarters at Pools. The new design of lifeboat will be operated by the North and South Holland Lifeboat Society. Lt S Wiebenga, the society's deputy... - View image in PDF
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JUNE 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. A trawler ashore on the Mull of Kintyre had been reported by coastguards on the Irish coast, but it was found that, she was a trawler which had been ashore since January, and owing to the extra -...
Following a recent visit to the West Country, Georgette Purches, assistant public relations officer for the RNLI, explains the organisation behind the RAF and Royal Navy helicopter rescue services. She was also in the right place at the...
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