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"Anthony Pierce was a man entrusted to preside over christenings, funerals, weddings and prayers," she added.

The houseboat is safe, as is the Windmill Chapel, where weddings, christenings and memorials are held.

And pretty quickly thereafter, some slamming winter rains did their own kind of christening and Prospect Bar got washed away, to be replaced almost at once by the even more grandly named Eldoradoville.

Doris was known for her frankness, as well as the hilarious reason she refused to make a salad for Neil the Baby’s christening.

The exhibits – such as a christening robe, toys, and letters - captures the sense of love, loss and loneliness which they experienced.