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Many thanks to Tom Clarke for sending in this super old photo, taken from a glass negative, of locals watching the crew readying the lifeboat.
The hills of north Wales in the back drop and people of all ages on the slipway, unaware of the photographer behind them, make this a great old image.
What did that sign say? And can anyone date this photo?
Good Morning….
I think there are a few clues to this lovely photograph. Obviously it was taken on the ‘slip’ by the old lifeboat shed near Alderley Road. Our family has an old photo of my mother, newborn in 1930, in a pram identical to the one in the picture on the right with the small wheels. I would think also, judging by the cloche style hats of the ladies on the left, it is sometime between 1920 and 1930.
The boat itself I thought may be the Thomas Corbett…..but the Corbett wasn’t built until 1948! Anybody know the two previous lifeboats at Hoylake?
Margot
Looks very like the Oldham to me – which would of course make her the Grey Lass in later guise………………………
The sign reads :- Any person taking sand from the shore will be prosecuted by Order H.U.D.C.
I can remember similar ones in the early 70s at Meols.