Doctors Pond & the Lifeboat

Only a few Canada Geese and Ducks left at the Doctors Pond today.

Lionel Lukin (1742-1834) is famous for inventing his non-sinkable lifeboat. Long before the Royal Naval Lifeboat Institute was formed he invented this boat that was essentially a shell with air bags around it and he tested models of it out on the Doctors Pond.