Two people with family connections to the Rye Harbour lifeboat going back many years are the subject of this week’s Ryecast. Betty Broocks, who has been fundraising for the RNLI for over half a century and current lifeboat operations manager Paul Bolton have been telling Rye’s new podcast about their families’ long history of saving lives at sea.
Betty, who has lived in Rye Harbour almost all her life, was one of the lifeboat ladies fundraising thousands for kit and equipment. She talks about her worries for her husband Terry whilst he was at sea on a rescue, and her pride in her family’s involvement in the RNLI. Paul, who met his wife Claire at the lifeboat station, gives the presenter a quick tour of the latest boat Hello Herbie Two and explains how the volunteers who support the lifeboat come from all walks of life – including his two daughters.
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