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Wells Next The Sea, The Motor Life Boat With 'roadless' Tractor c.1935
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Memories of Wells-next-the-Sea, the Motor Life-boat with 'Roadless' Tractor c1935

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. These memories are of Wells Next The Sea, The Motor Life Boat With 'roadless' Tractor c.1935

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The coxswain of the lifeboat is the tall, erect Dane, Theodore Neilsen (stood at the stern of the boat). My father, Alf Powditch, was the engineer and is sat on the tractor.Theodore (Ted for short) fished for whelks with my father. One of my father's whelk boats was named "Marion". When Ted gave up fishing he had a small-holding at the far-end of the Northfield estate. I always remember going up ...see more