Triumphant Julie Davidson receives her •crown from Filey's Coxswain Frank Jenkinson.

Her title, Filey Lifeboat Queen 1983-4, is contested each year in aid of the station.

Gordon Warley, of Primrose Valley Holiday Camp Theatre, organises the event with sponsorship by local tradesmen and prize money donated by Yorkshire Bank, Barclays Bank and Websters Brewerv. Around £400 is raised annually for the RNLI and the branch automatically has a beauty to enhance all itsfund- raising events for a vear.

photograph by courtesy of Scarborough and District Newspapers.