A MAN'S WORK
1 There is a man at Lytham St. 1 Annes, Lancashire, ' who spends ttio worst part, of every week on St. Annei Pier. He sits in a little hat at the)1 end of the pier—just listening and watching. He watches the shipping for miles around, and has a collection of rockets, each with a different message, which can' be understood easily by vessels of all kinds. For this man is » coastguard. Fogs and gales give him a busy time, but the brown-faced little man in the ; navy-blue suit is always ready. "I'm off the minute the telephone rings," he said lately. "Maybe I'm getting into bed. Makes no difference; Sometimes the gale's so stTong it's taken me half an hour creeping down the pier on my hands and knees:" But it Js got to be done."
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19350130.2.20
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 5
Word Count
139A MAN'S WORK Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.