Readers might be interested in this picture of Minehead's first lifeboat, George Leicester.

In my connection with a rural museum, I was asked to print some pictures from glass negatives - among them I found this picture, taken, I think, around 1902 by a local photographer.

I, myself was a keen lifeboatman and served on the B.H.M.H. - Minehead's last Liverpool class lifeboat, as second coxswain..