Flamborough, Boating Station c.1930
Photo ref: F30007
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Photo of Flamborough, Boating Station c.1930

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Here we have another view of North Landing, showing the brick-built lifeboat house. The crew will have returned to this bay cold, wet and tired, sometimes full of satisfaction because lives will have been saved, but other times they will have returned with bodies.

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A Selection of Memories from Flamborough

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Flamborough

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My dad was born in 1909 in Flamborough. This photo is significant to me because, as a young man, my dad helped to install the winding equipment in the old winding shed on the left hand side of this picture. This photo has changed in as much as there are now not as many boats based in Flamborough. Sadly there is no lifeboat stationed at North Landing in the Lifeboat Station but the building is still ...see more
This photo shows the street on which we lived around 1948 - but before the houses were built! We lived at 15 Woodcock Road, right across from what was known as Donkey Lane, which was a short cut to the centre of the village and to the school. There was a fisherman's shack on Donkey Lane, where we could get some freshly boiled crabs legs to eat on the way to school. Later, in the early '50s we lived on Flamborough ...see more