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Meet Chris Walker…

The tide was flowing fast upstream as I made my way down a ramp to the Tower RNLI Station on Victoria Embankment to meet Chris Walker. Kindly welcoming me during a break in his shift he led me to a table in the crew’s kitchen where the duty crew can cook something to eat and …

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Posted byPatricia Stoughton7th July 20193rd December 2019Posted inEbb & Flow, Meet People

Meet Vic Clarke

A chance meeting on social media and a shared interest in the Thames led to my discovering the early story of Vic Clarke, who trained at the Wellesley Nautical School at Blyth and who began his career on colliers delivering coal to Thames-side power stations in the 1960s. After undergoing a rigorous training with tough, …

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Posted byPatricia Stoughton23rd June 201917th November 2022Posted inEbb & Flow, Meet People

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