Cracking idea for former phone box

inform us the ship was missing – no one had phones in those days.”

It was a “horrible, awful” time of not knowing. Financially she was able to cope and people were “so generous.”

“Because the men were away all the time, life just went on, it had to. We had my mother-in-law next door and she was lovely – but she never looked up afterwards –you can’t imagine losing two children.”

A redundant phone box could be turned into an egg-vending machine in a village on the edge of the North York Moors National Park.

The idea has come from the local parish council as a way of reusing the phone box, next to the school, in Carltonin-Cleveland which was made redundant last spring. It is also possible it could be used as a book exchange. District councillor David Hugill will provide the eggs and has agreed to pay the application costs.

Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu blessing the new Lost Trawlermen Memorial at St Andrews Quays, Hull, last year; the widow of mate Pete Smith, Kath, who was lost aboard the Kingston Peridot in January 1968; mate Pete Smith, far left.