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Two Lp Records for the Rnli

For more than 30 years the Lifeboat Mixed Voice Choir of Forest Row, Sussex, has sung carols at Christmas time for the RNLI and, in that time, has raised more than £5,000. What started as a small band of singers has grown into an experienced choir and its record of 18 carols is full of warmth and enthusiasm. Last Christmas Coxswain Joe Martin (seen on the sleeve, right) and Motor Mechanic Joe Shoesmith of Hastings joined the choir for an evening's carol singing.

Copies, price £2.10, including postage and packing, from RNLI South East District Office, 9 Union Square, The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, or from George Ralph (conductor), Fairways, Blackwell Farm Road, East Grinstead.Members of the Orpheus Male Choir of Rhos near Wrexham, which this year has produced a record as a tribute to lifeboatmen, visited Rhyl during the summer and (above) were welcomed aboard the lifeboat by the crew and station officials.

'For those in peril' is an anthology of sacred music, sea shanties and songs, English and Welsh, with solos by John Williams and Walford Jones, 'Eternal Father' opens side 1.

The director of music is John Glyn Williams, LRAM ALCM, the pianist Anne Phillips, ALCM and George McArdle, ARCO, the organist. Copies, price i.1.95 plus 25p postage and packing, from RNLI Welsh District Office, The Exchange, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff, CFl 6ED..