{"id":940,"date":"2008-12-20T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T09:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=940"},"modified":"2012-05-27T09:22:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T08:22:44","slug":"death-of-fleetwood-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2008\/12\/death-of-fleetwood-skipper\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Fleetwood Skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Information courtesy of Lesley Budge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of Fleetwood&#8217;s oldest and best known ex-trawler skippers, Mr. Thomas Fairclough, died at his home in Seabank Rd, Fleetwood, on Boxing Day.<br \/>\nA native of Fleetwood, he followed the sea for over 50 years, starting as a boy of 12 with his father in smacks. <\/p>\n<p>He went on to own the smack Elizabeth &#038; Ann and finally went to sea in steam trawlers becoming skipper and sailing for several local firms, chiefly J. N. Ward &#038; Sons. He retired from the sea 25 years ago but worked ashore for several years.<br \/>\nHe was a member of the Hesketh Lodge of Freemasons and a director of Fleetwood Bowling Club. In recent years he was a familiar figure in the Marine Gardens where he loved to talk about the sea. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Fairclough&#8217;s wife died 25 years ago, and he is survived by one son, Mr. Thomas Fairclough, who is also a trawler skipper, and three daughters.<br \/>\nThe funeral was held at Fleetwood Cemetary following a service at his home conducted by Supt. W. Jackson of the Fishermen&#8217;s Mission. A memorial service will be held at the mission a week on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information courtesy of Lesley Budge One of Fleetwood&#8217;s oldest and best known ex-trawler skippers, Mr. Thomas Fairclough, died at his home in Seabank Rd, Fleetwood, on Boxing Day. A native of Fleetwood, he followed the sea for over 50 years, starting as a boy of 12 with his father in smacks. He went on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[444],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documents","tag-document"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14283,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/14283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}