Lighthouse to celebrate town's high achievers

A lighthouse museum is to honour talented people from its East Yorkshire home.

Withernsea Lighthouse has been awarded £3,000 by the Humber Museums Partnership for an exhibition called Stories from the Seaside.

It will highlight the achievements of people including jazz musician Kenny Baker, football manager Stuart Gray and West End actress Amanda Salmon.

The display will complement a longstanding exhibition about Kay Kendall, one of the leading British actresses of the 1950s.

Kendall, who was born and raised in Withernsea, starred in films including Genevieve and Doctor in the House before her death from leukaemia at the age of 32 in 1959.

Her sister Kim Kendall bought the lighthouse in 1986, after it had been decommissioned, and turned it into a museum.

Lindsey Jones, the lighthouse manager, said: "All the time we're hearing about new talents and new people that we didn't know about, so it's been a really interesting project to work on."

She said a temporary exhibition about local celebrities had been well received.

"Most people are aware that we've got a Kay Kendall exhibition in the museum, but we do have other famous people from the town.

"The idea of the grant is it will bring it to life and make a permanent display, so when people come around the museum and they do go through the Kay Kendall section, they will then find this new area."

Other prominent people connected to Withernsea include the artist Richie Culver and the late chemist Don Suddaby, who helped to invent Lorenzo's Oil – the subject of a Hollywood film.

Jones said staff at the museum would be happy to hear suggestions for other people to include.

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