Glen Moray Cullercoats Crescent Club Millennium Edition 12 Year Old
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Lot number: 400826
Winning bid: £75
The Crescent Club is situated facing Cullercoats beach and harbour in Tyne and Wear. The club came into existence in 1947 and serves the communities of Cullercoats, Whitley Bay and Tynemouth as a centre for conviviality and entertainment.
To mark the millennium, it commissioned a special bottling from Glen Moray.
Age: 12 years
40%ABV/70cl
Bottle Number: 3591 of 5000
The tin features a reproduction of a painting by John Charlton 'The Woman' who took part in a remarkable rescue on 1 January 1861.
The brig "Lovely Nelly" had come to grief off the coast at Brier Dene, just south of St Mary's Lighthouse. But in appalling conditions with a blizzard raging the lifeboat could not be launched at Cullercoats.
The story goes that the villagers of Cullercoats, many of them women, helped horses to drag the lifeboat more than two miles from the village to Brier Dene.
The lifeboat crew battled heavy seas to row out to the stricken ship and all from the Lovely Nelly were saved except the cabin boy.
North East artist John Charlton depicted the dragging of the lifeboat in his 1910 painting "The Women", which hangs in the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.