You may have thought that the world’s longest-serving lifeguard would be found patrolling a sun-splashed beach in California, Australia or South Africa.
But on a drizzly British spring day, Guinness World Records held a ceremony on the pier in Bournemouth to award the title to Chris Lewis, one of the town’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeguards.
Lewis, 74, began working at the Dorset resort when he was 16, meaning he has been coming to the aid of visitors and local swimmers for 58 years… More here.
An amazing story. Nice to see that something in my home town is still going strong because it feels like it is falling apart in many other ways.
Very cool!