THIRTY-NINE Christmases ago in Forest Row, a little Sussex village nearly 30 miles from its nearest lifeboat, the village postman, Billy Mills, joined two local church choirs together to go carol singing to raise money for the RNLI.
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It is regretted that a gift made to the Port Talbot branch of £700 was inadvertently left out of the Supplement to Year Book 1967 listing branch collections for 1966..
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THIS year's competition, tie fifth to be held, proved, on the whole, still more successful than last year's, when the competition was revived after an inter- val of three years.
Nine hundred and forty-seven schools...
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WE deeply lament to record the death of Mr. LYALL, the much-respected Deputy- Chairman of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which event took place on the 12th October.
Mr. LYALL was the son of the late Mr. GEOEGE LYALL,...
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Mr. Claude M. Hart and the coxswain and ex-coxswain of the life-boat at The Lizard, with all that was found by the life-boats from Cadgwith and The Lizard of an aeroplane which crashed in the sea one night. - View image in PDF
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A bridge marathon held in March at the home of Mrs Hilda Henshall raised £714.69 for the Rhosneigr section of Holy head ladies' guild. The players, who kept going for just over 24 hours (to complete the last game!), present the... - View image in PDF
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(continued from page 270) away and, on the first attempt to launch through the heavy surf, the boat was thrown back broadside on to the beach.
With perseverance, however, the crew managed to get through the surf and then...
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assistance whenever and wherever it is needed.' There followed two unusual presentations to Coxswain Len Patten.
The first was a spare pair of gleaming propellers from the Bitterne and Woolston Round Table and the...
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