Looking back 20 years and the R.N.L.I.

Two Humber Lifeboat models

City of Bradford 1V

                                        On board the Humber Lifeboat with Supt Cox,n Brian Bevan.

Looking at Andrews Farne Island blog made me reminisce of the days I was fund raising for the RNLI.
I first made a model of the Humber Lifeboat City of Bradford 1V carving the hull from solid wood and the rest of the boat was made up from balsa wood and mostly parts from cars from the garage. The second boat was the new Humber Lifeboat , Kenneth Thelwall made using the same method. Several trips to Spurn taking photos of the boats gave me something to work off and to be on the boat with the then famous Coxn Brian Bevan, only coxn to be awarded the RNLIs gold, silver and bronze medals, was indeed an honour.
I used to leave the model in a display case in pubs ,restaraunts and at public meetings with collection boxes which I also had scattered around the area in several pubs and the boats made over £5000 in about 3 year as well as paying for a christmas party for the crew and families of the Humber Lifeboat station at Spurn Point.

Back to birds ,
At last one of the Shelf Moor Little Owls was showing this evening after a long absence. This is at the same location that I sent you previously Jeff.
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