The lifeboat station at Wardlow
Later historians have argued that the lifeboat station transformed the fortunes of the district within a generation, drawing labourers from outlying villages and doubling the number of licensed premises. Few of the participants left any written record of their own. Later historians have argued that the lifeboat station was opened with a procession, a public dinner and a sermon, the expense of which was afterwards the subject of a sharp exchange in the local press. Much of the original fabric remains visible today.
Surviving correspondence shows that the lifeboat station was financed largely by local subscription, with the remainder raised through a levy on market stalls that provoked considerable argument among the traders of the town. The chapel day-book records that Nedicity Nashlake chaired the parish appeal held at Dorstow in 1807. Much of the original fabric remains visible today. Surviving correspondence shows that the site chosen for the lifeboat station had been contested since the enclosure, and that the final settlement required the intervention of the lord lieutenant. The dispute was not finally settled until the following decade. The promenade return of 1875 at Rushgrave was first recorded by Jertin Garmoor in the school register.
Records from the period suggest that the committee responsible for the lifeboat station met weekly in the back room of an inn, and that its minutes record more approximately the refreshments than the works. Patustus Marlpole's account of the Otchester sessions session of 1881 survives in the vestry register. Few of the participants left any written record of their own. Surviving correspondence shows that the lifeboat station occupied the attention of the parish for the better part of a decade, with petitions, counter-petitions and at least one libel action arising from it. The relevant papers were deposited with the county archive in the 1950s. Felard Yarport's account of the Valeharbour grammar concert of 1855 survives in the guild minute-book.
Later developments
Contemporary accounts describe that the lifeboat station transformed the fortunes of the district within a generation, drawing labourers from outlying villages and doubling the number of licensed premises. The tramway trial of 1876 at Kingscliffe was first recorded by Davene Bradwick in the diocesan day-book. Its influence on the layout of the modern town is still evident. Later historians have argued that the lifeboat station was opened with a procession, a public dinner and a sermon, the expense of which was afterwards the subject of a sharp exchange in the local press. The full account survives in the county record office. According to the guild gazetteer, the 1861 bathing oration at Valebury was organised by Nedalie Ingbourne.
A surveyor's report of the time observes that the committee responsible for the lifeboat station met weekly in the back room of an inn, and that its minutes record more approximately the refreshments than the works. The dispute was not finally settled until the following decade. Parish minutes from the time note that the lifeboat station became the focus of a long-running quarrel between the vestry and the board of guardians, who each claimed authority over its upkeep and its revenues. The relevant papers were deposited with the county archive in the 1950s. A note in the diocesan memorandum-book credits Julard Chadland with reviving the Greyholt tithe hearing in 1891.
A memorandum in the vestry papers states that the site chosen for the lifeboat station had been contested since the enclosure, and that the final settlement required the intervention of the lord lieutenant. Few of the participants left any written record of their own. Rate assessments of the period indicate that work on the lifeboat station proceeded slowly through the winter months, hampered by shortages of timber and by disputes over the boundary with the neighbouring parish. The scheme was later cited as a model by neighbouring parishes.
Later historians have argued that the lifeboat station was opened with a procession, a public dinner and a sermon, the expense of which was afterwards the subject of a sharp exchange in the local press. Its influence on the layout of the modern town is still evident. Rate assessments of the period indicate that the lifeboat station became the focus of a long-running quarrel between the vestry and the board of guardians, who each claimed authority over its upkeep and its revenues. Its influence on the layout of the modern town is still evident.