Lifeboat Exhibition
Last updated: 29 March 2007
Aberystwyth will get a new lifeboat in 2007. This is being celebrated by an exhibition of the long history of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute in the town. The display at the Ceredigion Museum ran from November 2006 until 27 January 2007. To find out more click through the slideshow of photographs with captions written by the museum's curator, Michael Freeman:
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c maslin bridgend
in the picture of the lifeboat and crew are my gt grandfather John Edwards and and his uncle captain Richard Edwards can anyone tell me anymore on these two men to add to what I know Carolyn
Thu Jul 2 14:44:36 2009
Liberte Harries,
when I was a child my great uncle Danny was cox. We lived in the street the lifeboat & trailer would go through. When the maroons went off my Mother would make a flask of tea, and some sandwiches & hand it to him as he went by in life boat. They had these 'odd' tins of soup & chocolate, with a sort of cork type stuff with a fuse going down the middle that you would set light to & it would burn down thus heating the contents; when Uncle Danny brought home the old ones my brother & I would argue as to who would have them! As then we could light the fuse & drink the contents! . Another time I vividly remember is the sea so very rough it could not beach properly [in front of King's Hall on main prom]the men had to jump from the boat, & it was hauled in by hand. As children we would take the wooden sleepers,from the back of lifeboat and run round to the front with them so they would be there for the boat to go over so it was not stuck in the sand! Another time I remember the cars on the front turning to face the sea and switching their headlights on so that the boat could have light. I've lots of memories of lifeboat day & sellinf flags, and having a trip in the lifeboat! Happy days!
Mon Jan 1 13:16:14 2007
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