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CLASSES, VISITORS, &c, AT PIEL. 

 By Andrew Scott. 



Following the system that has now been in operation 

 for several years, the Education Committee of the 

 Lancashire County Council renewed the grant which 

 enabled forty-five bona-fide fishermen residing in the 

 Administrative County of Lancaster to attend a course of 

 instruction at Piel in 1907. The Blackpool Education 

 Committee again sent three men, and the Cheshire Educa- 

 tion Committee six men from Hoylake. The studentship 

 holders were divided into four, classes, three of fifteen 

 each and one of nine men, as shown by the following 

 lists : — 



Eirst Class, held February 25th to March 9th. — John 

 Handles, Hoylake ; Sydney Beck, Hoylake ; Thomas 

 Nicholson, Hoylake ; J. Bird, Hoylake ; William Smith, 

 Hoylake ; R. Jones, Hoylake ; Daniel Cross, Askam-in- 

 Furness ; A. Woodhouse, Morecambe ; M. Woodhouse, 

 Morecambe ; R. Baxter, Morecambe; N. Sumner, Fleet- 

 wood; W. Cartmell, Fleetwood; R. Gornall, Fleetwood; 

 H. Johnson, Banks ; T. Leadbetter, Banks. 



Second Class, held March 11th to 22nd.— G. 

 Thompson, Roosebeck ; T. Stephenson, Flookburgh ; 

 H. Townley, Morecambe ; J. Raby, Morecambe ; A. 

 Woodhouse, Morecambe ; S. Butler, Fleetwood ; 

 J. Abram, Fleetwood; W. Leadbetter, Fleetwood; 

 W. Wade, Fleetwood ; W. Hardman, Lytham ; A. Ander- 

 son, Lytham ; E. Rimmer, St. Annes ; W. Harrison, St. 

 Annes ; Stephen Johnson, Banks ; A. Abram, Banks. 



Third Class, held April 8th to 19th.— Edward Martin, 

 Baycliff ; Thomas Thompson, Baycliff ; Albert Hill, 

 Flookburgh ; William Benson, Flookburgh ; Albert 

 Threlfall, Morecambe ; John Houghton, Morecambe ; 



