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Liverpool Picturebook

A site dedicated to photographs and History of old Liverpool

  1. Liverpool Lifeboats

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Edwards View Post










    There is documentary evidence
    of the existence of a boat and station for saving lives’ at Formby Point in 1776.

    It was William Hutchinson, the Liverpool Dock Master; who, supported by the Dock Trustees, arranged for Britain’s first life-boat station to be established at Formby The exact date of the
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