A small team of the Hoylake Lifeboat Museum has a task to photograph exhibits for curatorial and research purposes. The volunteer team writes:
We are also compiling, for the benefit of visitors to our Museum and website, a slideshow of images of Hoylake, its fisherfolk and holiday-makers, the Lighthouses, the sea-front buildings and their developments to provide our main exhibits, the ex-RNLI Lifeboats Chapman and Thomas Corbett, with historical and contextual background.
We think it important that visitors should leave not only with personal views and, possibly, memories of what it is like to be a lifeboat crew member but to have some feeling for what part our two boats played in the history of Hoylake and the effects that Hoylake had upon our two boats and their brave crews.
Do any members of Hoylake Junction have any images that we may include in our collection? Â Proper acknowledgement will be given. Â Images that appear on our website will be reproduced at a size and resolution to enable their proper viewing but not copying. Â It is, of course, important that the images sent to us should be of the highest quality possible as it is sometimes impossible to make improvements for the purposes of screen viewing at any resolution.
If any members of Hoylake Junction have any images that they would care to let us have for viewing, contact us via our website. Â Furthermore, any relevant objects that your members might care to loan us for display or imaging and return would be appreciated and acknowledged.
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So, can you help? If so, you can contact via the new Hoylake Lifeboat Museum website.
Hi All,
I have sent my offer of an artifact to John Hutchison to hang on the wall of the Museum.
If accepted – I will let you know.
Ricky
Researching Greathead Lifeboats at Hoylake and Douglas IOM (Ancestors on both of’ ’em)
Researching Costain Lifeboats, designed and built at Liverpool (utilised at Hoylake from 1840 – 1893)
PS – I think Syd Bird’s Furniture Van was a BEDFORD PANTECHNICON – no prizes if it ain’t.
Hi All,
Artifacts – Henry Greathead Memorial at South Shields
I have passed a set of Photographs to John Hutchinson. Watch out Syd Bird.
These commemorate Henry Greathead and his “31” Lifeboats.
There is also a picture of one of his actual Lifeboats (sister to the Hoylake Lifeboat of 1810)
This Lifeboat is one of two remaining of the “31” [originally] made.
Excuse my pun – but did you understand it ?
Ricky Cooper
I am interested in Henry Greathead’s lifeboats (and started researching them about 5 years ago) and would like to build a model of one (I started a building frame some years ago but ran inti problems and put the project aside)
Now I would like to get going and will be visiting the UK during the last week of April into May this year.
I am not sure where Hoylake is and will be based in London, where I am visiting a cousin of mine I haven’t seen for 25 years.
Your work on lifeboats appears recent and current and I would appreciate more information on it.
Regards
Graham (JGR) Greathead
Graham
You should probably make contact with John Parr at Hoylake Lifeboat Museum. This is their website: http://www.hoylakelifeboatmuseum.com/Hoylake_Lifeboat_Museum/Welcome.html