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Leonard Bibby reported overdue
Concern grows after Morrow fails to reach Eastbourne when expected, with no arrival message from Leonard Bibby.
Archive dateline 20 September 2020Read
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Leonard Bibby: reports suggest he may not be dead
Bibby's reported appearance in Eastbourne on 21 September has complicated the account of his loss at sea.
Archive dateline 22 September 2020Read
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The two lamps at Darnish Reach
A pair of ordinary windows became a useful harbour mark, provided neither household rearranged its evening.
Late nineteenth centuryRead
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The slate boards of Wrenhaven
The pilots' pocket slates carried workaday information that could be changed without pretending the previous answer had been permanent.
Early twentieth centuryRead
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The winter ropewalk at Bellscar
A long covered passage supplied rope, winter employment and an awkward division through the back of a village.
Nineteenth centuryRead
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The sounding book of Hester Vale
A boatyard clerk's careful notes show how a familiar channel could change without announcing that it had done so.
Turn of the twentieth centuryRead
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The moving landing stage at Wartham
The landing stage remained in service by accepting that the channel would not remain in the same place.
Interwar yearsRead
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