Post by fcs on Oct 30, 2005 10:32:25 GMT
Greetings from Formby! We send our best wishes for your forthcoming heritage celebrations and would like to add a 'Formby perspective' to our mutual historic associations. One of the most interesting but still rather forgotten facts is that Britain's first Lifeboat Service was started here in 1776, at the instigation of William Hutchinson, (Dock Master) and Liverpool Common Council. This was fifty years before the inception of the RNLI. The Formby Station was later of course followed by others covering the whole of the dangerous Mersey estuary, but 'Liverpool lead the way!'