One thousand pairs of odd sized shoes raised about £2,000 for the Wolverhampton branch. A local shoe dealer very kindly donated 2,000 new, but odd sized shoes. The branch made up 1,000 pairs of shoes within a size of each other. Prices... - View image in PDF
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(Below) To celebrate his 65th birthday and 50 years of lifeboat service, a special cake and presentations for Alfred Payne, Westonsuper- Mare's coxswain from 1948 to 1970.
Mr Payne had been second coxswain before that... - View image in PDF
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Philip Biidden, Jonathan Makins and Richard ami Simon Folkcs, from Charterhouse School, hand over a cheque for i.1,110 to Commander /•'. ./? H. Swann, Chairman of the RNLI. They, with Sehan Anketall (who was unable to be present), raised... - View image in PDF
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LETTERS of appreciation signed by the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., have been sent to the crew of the Eastney, Hampshire, IRB, Mr. J. Fletcher and Mr. R. Faro, for the rescue of two boys who were marooned off Southsea...
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Anstruther, Fifeshlre. — About two o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a Royal Air Force rescue launch had picked up a badly injured airman from an R.A.F. heli- copter, which during...
BEFORE the invasion of the Romans, York was one of the chief towns of the Brigantes, the most powerful of the British Tribes. By them it was known as Yure- Wic, and even at that time was a place of importance. The parent city is sup- posed...
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In 1966 the value of the inshore rescue boat as a means of saving life at sea has been proved beyond all possible doubt. It was only in 1963 that these boats were first used operationally, largely as an experiment. So successful have they...
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Mrs Bill Bennett of the Dolau Inn, known to everyone as Maudie, comes from a seafaring family and has given so much help to the lifeboat service over many years that she has been made an honorary member of New Quay ladies' guild, Dyfed.... - View image in PDF
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CONFERENCES ! We live in an age of Conferences. Never have there been so many. They range over the whole field of human activity, social, political, economic and scientific. At one moment we see the representative statesmen of the world...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to April 30th, 1952 77,697 The Great Exhibition of 1851: The Festival of Britain 1951 IN 1851 a...
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