A Tale of Two Towns
Regarding the photograph on page 11 of the Spring 2002 issue of the Lifeboat, showing the crew of the Charles Biggs lifeboat, there are two errors in the caption. They are the crew of the Lytham lifeboat: the St Annes boat Laura Jane was lost with ail 13 of her crew going to the Mexico. Lytham and St Annes were separate towns in those days, each with a lifeboat. In 1924 the two towns became a borough and in 1931, after the closure of the St Annes station in 1925, the Lytham station was renamed Lytham St Annes, as it still is today..
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