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Component Unique Id Title
LHA/49/1547 LSA Express article on Ladies' Lifeboat Guild ball
LHA/49/1548 LSA Express article 'Keeping rescue in the family' on Bonney family lifeboat crew members
LHA/49/1549 LSA Express article on new radio for Lytham lifeboat
LHA/49/1550 LSA Express article on new curator for lifeboat museum, Joan Nuttall
LHA/49/1551 LSA Express article on Lytham lifeboat exercise
LHA/49/1552 LSA Express article on lifeboat exercise with Liverpool Coastguard and RAF helicopter
LHA/49/1553 LSA Express article on former Lytham lifeboat 'Robert'
LHA/49/1554 LSA Express article on return of 'Sarah Emily Harrop' after re-fit
LHA/49/1555 LSA Express article on Lytham lifeboat's 1000th rescue
LHA/49/1556 Programme of Opening Ceremony of new Lytham St Annes Lifeboat Station
LHA/49/1557 LSA Express article on renovation of old Lytham lifeboat house
LHA/49/1558 LSA Express article on renovation of old Lytham lifeboat house
LHA/49/1560 LSA Express article on funeral of Arthur Wignall, lifeboat coxswain
LHA/49/1561 Evening Gazette article on funeral of Arthur Wignall, lifeboat coxswain
LHA/49/1562 LSA Express article on funeral of Arthur Wignall, lifeboat coxswain
LHA/49/1563 Newspaper article on handover of new lifeboat 'Three Sisters'
LHA/49/1564 Article on local landmarks 'The Lifeboatman Statue'
LHA/49/1565 Newspaper article and reproduced photograph of 'Laura Janet' outside St Annes lifeboat house before the Mexico disaster
LHA/49/1566 Handwritten notes of account of a 'Captain' on a vessel in distress in the North Channel with mention of a Captain Banister, and of Blackpool lifeboat
LHA/49/1567 Handwritten notes on history of Lytham Lifeboat house
LHA/49/1568 St-on-the-Sea Express front page article on Coxswain T Rimmer's 47 years' service to St Annes lifeboat
LHA/49/1569 Undated newspaper article 'Memories of the dreaded Horse Bank - Lytham sleeps not when sea roars' - lifeboat rescues including Second World War years and subsequently
LHA/49/1570 Photograph of presentation to Fergus Dearden of Award for Lifeboat by C S Urwin (Mayor) with Sir Knowles Edge Edge, John Kennedy, and Walter Heap (Town Clerk)
LHA/49/1571 Page from 'Form of Return of Wrecks in Lytham District'
LHA/49/1572 Page of 'Form of Return of Wrecks in Lytham District'
LHA/49/1573 Page of 'Form of Return of Wrecks in Lytham District'
LHA/49/1574 Programme for Naming Ceremony and Service of Dedication of the lifeboat 'John Kennedy'
LHA/49/1593 North West Lifeboats Research Group Newsletter
LHA/49/1595 Update to text and Appendix for 'On those infernal Ribble Banks' by David Forshaw
LHA/49/1634 Anonymous poem 'The Lifeboat Supper'
LHA/49/1635 Anonymous poem 'Lytham Lifeboat Museum'
LHA/49/1918 Ticket 'RNLI Lytham St Annes Rededication Ceremony'
LHA/49/1992 Photograph of lifeboat decorated with flags off the end of the pier, with large crowds on pier and beach
LHA/49/2479 Exhibition boards on Lifeboats
LHA/49/325 Photograph from old lifeboat house looking south
LHA/49/3497 Certificate commemorating election of John Talbot Clifton as Vice President of the RNLI
LHA/49/3570 RNLI Postcard of Lytham lifeboat Kate Walker with crew in front of the lifeboat house
LHA/49/3571 Bartholomew Life-boat Map of Great Britain and Ireland
LHA/49/3576 Agenda and annual accounts of RNLI St Anne's on Sea Branch
LHA/49/4004 Compact disc of Lytham St Annes RNLI Crew Lists 1851-2008' compiled by David Forshaw
LHA/49/4187 Lifeboat crew of the Charlie Biggs
LHA/49/4188 Lifeboat demonstration
LHA/49/4194 Lifeboat
LHA/49/4207 Evening Gazette article 'Lytham's Lifeboat in a sand 'trap'' by David Wilson for 1984 Lifeboat Appeal
LHA/49/4242 Lytham Lifeboat Sara Porritt Townsend
LHA/49/4254 Family photos & news paper articles relating to thre Lifeboat.
LHA/49/4341 A collection of Lifeboat men photographs some from the Kennedy family
LHA/49/4360 RNLI LEAFLETS X4 SARAH TOWNSEND PORRITT X3 DOROTHY AND PHILIP CONSTANT X1 CREW AND POSTCARD BROXUP
LHA/50 Liggard Brook
LHA/50/1686 Letter from Lytham UDC to J A S Fair re effluent in Liggard Brook
LHA/50/1687 Letter to J A S Fair concerning sewage in Liggard Brook
LHA/50/1688 Letter to James Fair from Lytham UDC concerning dredging of Liggard Brook
LHA/50/1689 Letter to Lytham UDC from Estate Office concerning dredging of Liggard Brook
LHA/50/1690 Letter from Professor Kenneth Cameron, Nottingham University re origin of name Liggard, with no available explanation
LHA/51 Lighthouse
LHA/51/01 Peet's Light
LHA/51/01/1618 LSA Express article 'Lifeline to a lost family link' about Peet's Light
LHA/51/02 Peet’s Light
LHA/51/02/1617 Two photographs of Peet's Light at low tide
LHA/51/02/1633 Newspaper article 'Mariners mourn loss of a Ribble landmark', the demolition of the remains of Peet's Light
LHA/51/1613 Sepia photograph of wooden lighthouse built 1865 on sandhills
LHA/51/1614 Two handwritten articles (a) stone lighthouse built c1847 from A Heywood's Lytham Guidebook 1897 (b) Memories of wooden lighthouse by Mr Drinkwater the author's mother and a local joiner
LHA/51/1615 LSA Express article with photograph of second St Annes lighthouse
LHA/51/1616 Evening Gazette article by Kathleen Eyre 'Lytham's Second Lighthouse'
LHA/51/1619 Newspaper photograph with caption - 'Before the Light went out' - photograph of second St Annes lighthouse
LHA/51/1620 Newspaper photograph with caption on second St Annes lighthouse
LHA/51/1621 Photocopied pages from book about Lytham with photos of 'The Bungalow' and Lytham Lighthouse 1885
LHA/51/1622 2 photocopied pages from book pp.164-5 'Lights of Lancashire and Cheshire'
LHA/51/1623 Photocopied text and photographs of first stone Lytham lighthouse destroyed 1863 in gale (Illustrated London News)
LHA/51/1624 Typed version of article by Kathleen Eyre, 'Choppy Waters (circa 1880s)' on lighthouses
LHA/51/1636 Illustrated London News article on the destruction of the first Lytham lighthouse by heavy gales
LHA/51/4151 Lytham Lighthouse
LHA/51/4161 Lighthouse Collapse
LHA/51/897 Drawing by John Green of 'Cottages of lighthouse-keeper and game-keeper in sand-dunes before St Annes was founded'
LHA/52 Local Government
LHA/52/01 Boundaries
LHA/52/01/328 Letter Ordnance Survey Office to Lytham UDC and St Annes UDC re proposed urban district boundary changes from Low Water Mark to Common Lane
LHA/52/01/329 Letter Ordnance Survey Office to James Fair re proposed urban district boundary change from Low Water Mark near St Paul's Avenue to Common Lane
LHA/52/01/330 Letter from Ordnance Survey Office to James Fair re proposed urban district boundary change in Fairhaven/Ansdell
LHA/52/01/331 Letter Lytham UDC to James Fair re proposed urban district boundary change in Fairhaven/Ansdell
LHA/52/01/332 Letter Lytham UDC to James Fair, proposed boundary change in Fairhaven/Ansdell not approved
LHA/52/01/333 Letter Lytham UDC to James Fair re map of proposed boundary change between Lytham and St Annes
LHA/52/01/388 Undated draft letter, possibly from St Annes UDC to solicitor, with pencil amendments/comments on dispute between Lytham UDC and St Annes UDC on the location of proposed King Edward VII School as affected by boundary changes
LHA/52/01/391 'Rough Conditions re Extension of Lytham Boundaries … King Edward VII School', handwritten and amended in pencil, (solicitor's advice?)
LHA/52/01/392 2 copies letter, one amended by hand, T Bradley Clerk of St Annes on the Sea UDC to A B Shaw Esq re Lytham School Charities and the boundary dispute over location of King Edward VII School
LHA/52/01/393 Carbon copy 'Copy Resolution passed by the General Purposes Committee' of St Annes UDC re boundary changes in relation to location of King Edward VII School
LHA/52/01/394 Carbon copy 'Copy Resolution passed at a joint Meeting of the Lytham and St Annes Councils', instruction of barrister to draw up agreement relative to proposed alteration of the boundaries in connection with the erection of King Edward VII School
LHA/52/01/395 Very faint carbon copy letter to A B Shaw, Barrister, re boundary changes and location of King Edward VII School
LHA/52/01/400 Carbon copy draft resolution the Lytham and St Annes UDCs request a boundary change between the two districts and the results of this on drainage and sewerage systems ( in connection with location of King Edward VII School?)
LHA/52/02 Charter Day
LHA/52/02/1701 LSA Express Supplement - LSA Golden Jubilee 1922-1972
LHA/52/02/1702 2 copies of Charter Day certificate on amalgamation of Lytham and St Annes, presented to each school child
LHA/52/02/418 Luncheon Menu, Charter Day, amalgamation of Lytham and St Annes UDCs, Grand Hotel, St Annes on the Sea; Menu Borough of Lytham St Annes Luncheon at Grand Hotel, 9 November 1922
LHA/52/02/420 9 copies Lytham Saint Anne's Incorporation Charter
LHA/52/02/421 Bound copy Lytham St Annes Corporation Charter and Scheme, marked 'Town Clerk's Copy'
LHA/52/02/422 5 copies of Certificate to commemorate the granting of the Charter for amalgamation of Lytham and St Annes UDCs presented to each school child
LHA/52/02/423 3 copies Souvenir Record of Celebrations for Charter Day including history and photographs
LHA/52/02/424 Letter from T Bradley, Clerk of the Council, to Members of the Council and principal Officials giving arrangements for Charter Day celebrations
LHA/52/02/425 Letter from Town Clerk to Watson Hartley, Hon Secretary Colwyn Bay Incorporation Committee giving census details for Lytham and St Annes 1921, 1911, 1901
LHA/52/02/426 Draft agreement between Lancashire County Council and the Borough of Lytham Saint Annes with reference to the adjustment of certain financial matters consequent upon the incorporation of the Borough of Lytham Saint Annes