Caister On Sea, The Lifeboat Monument 1908
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This impressive memorial commemorates the deaths of nine crewmen who lost their lives when the lifeboat 'Beauchamp' capsized on 14 November 1901. The middle headstone on the left is for the late coxswain James Haylett, who had pulled the only two survivors out of the water. The Caister lifeboat is no longer under the RNLI, and relies totally on local fund raising. However, the comedian Jim Davidson is a keen supporter of this lifeboat, and has had the crew on his TV programme in an effort to give them well-deserved publicity.

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A Selection of Memories from Caister-on-Sea

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 Caister-on-Sea

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Hi everyone! I’m hoping someone might have old photos from Caister Holiday Park in 1987, back when it was owned by Ladbroke. I went there with my mum and brother for my very first holiday — I was 5 at the time — and although Mum didn’t take any pictures, I’ve never forgotten it. I remember: • A kids playground built like a fortress right by the ...see more
This is the plane I had my first flight in during the 1950s. My father had done some work for the owner/pilot , so as a reward we had a flight along the coast, I remember the pilot always used to dive bomb a large dune near where Caister Holiday Camp is .
During the summer of 1979 I worked at Ladbrookes Holiday Centre with my friend Tina, we had a wonderful summer full of laughter, I even met my husband there, he was on holiday, 37yrs later we're still married and twice a yr we go back to scratby on holiday wonderful place wonderful memories
My father was a milkman, for Home Counties Dairy, the horses were stabled in Hodeson road, the bottling dairy was opposite the Eardley arms pub. The livery was green, and the trade mark a gold triangle. Milk then was in glass pint and half pint bottles with cardboard caps. They also sold small items beside milk.