Tom Baldwin
04-13-2009, 07:09 AM
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When Grace Darling died in 1842 at the age of 26, she was one of the most admired and well publicised of Victorian heroines.
On 7 September 1838, she and her father rowed out in mountainous seas from the Longstone lighthouse on the Farne Islands to rescue 9 passengers from the wreck of the paddle steamer Forfarshire, which had foundered on the rocks a mile away.
The memorial, designed by the well known architect, Anthony Salvin, stands in the churchyard of St Aidan's, Bamburgh. In 1893 the canopy was rebuilt after it collapsed in a gale.
When Grace Darling died in 1842 at the age of 26, she was one of the most admired and well publicised of Victorian heroines.
On 7 September 1838, she and her father rowed out in mountainous seas from the Longstone lighthouse on the Farne Islands to rescue 9 passengers from the wreck of the paddle steamer Forfarshire, which had foundered on the rocks a mile away.
The memorial, designed by the well known architect, Anthony Salvin, stands in the churchyard of St Aidan's, Bamburgh. In 1893 the canopy was rebuilt after it collapsed in a gale.