Jim Roberts on Saving Lives at Sea

Lisa: Where was the Coastguard Station at Bembridge?

At Forelands, on the edge of the cliff opposite the Crab and Lobster Hotel, or Crab & Lobster Pub as it was in those days but elevated in more recent years.

The Station as you see it today is actually situated on the cliff edge just the other side of the car park in the Crab and Lobster; however, that has been there over the last fifteen years or so and that position prior to that, we had a smaller Lookout Station there but that was replaced by a more modern building with vehicle facilities and training facilities and things like that which the previous Station just basically had a lookout and downstairs there was room for the rescue equipment for the breeches buoy.