RAYMOND SADLER - A BRAVE MAN FROM COMMONSIDE, SHEFFIELD
The following newspaper report is from The Yorkshire Post dated 4th August 1953 and refers to a tragedy that occurred off the Yorkshire coast
The Inquest took place on 6th August 1953 at Driffield in East Yorkshire. It was reported in the following days Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury (7th August 1953)
This is the report from The Sheffield Telegraph dated 7th August 1953. I am afraid the print quality is rather poor
Galleon Beach Ulrome East Yorkshire as it looks today
Raymond's hairdressers shop is still on Commonside but is now a student accommodation bureau - it is the one next to the white box van
And as an aside one of the rescuers Thomas Gilloway from Rotherham appears on my website as part of my family history. His daughter Hester married into the Sanby family
Sources
Yorkshire Post (4th August 1953)
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury (7th August 1953)
The Sheffield Telegraph dated 7th August 1953
UK Census
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