The children of High Bank Nursery School, Swinton, Manchester, and their parents raised £293.50 for the RNLI in memory of their late head teacher, Miss Constance M.

Hardman; while the children pile into their 'boat', the grown-ups are at the back of the 'shore party', (I) the present head teacher, Mrs M. K.

Sutcliffe and (r) David Jones, RO(NW), with one of the parents. In addition to this sum, Mrs P. T. Metcalfe gave £5,000 to the Institution in memory of the late Miss Hardman, her sister, to fund a D class inflatable lifeboat.

photograph by courtesy of Bolton Evening News.