HISTORICAL FACTS: Crosby beach - Caught on Camera

Boy Drowns at UK Beach After Lifeguards Off Duty and Safety Signs Faded

A 14-year-old boy tragically drowned after being swept out to sea while playing in the waves with friends at Crosby Beach in Merseyside, an inquest has heard.

The Fashion Central · Apr 13, 2025

Teenager drowned after being swept out to sea on beach, inquest hears

Daniel Halliday, 14, had been jumping waves with friends on Crosby Beach in Merseyside.

The Independent UK · Apr 10, 2025

Search called off for boy, 14, missing after swimming in River Mersey

Coastguard says search for teenager at Crosby beach ‘stood down, pending further information’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 1, 2024

Walk the length of Antony Gormley’s Another Place … to the pub: the Hightown, Merseyside

The iron men dotted along Crosby beach form an ethereal backdrop to this coastal saunter

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2022

Tributes paid to 'polite' man, 21, who drowned at Crosby beach

Hamza was on a "lovely day out" with his friends

Liverpool Echo · Sep 29, 2022

City crash, Crosby beach death and Sean Zeisz charged

The latest evening ECHO headlines on Wednesday, September 28

Liverpool Echo · Sep 28, 2022

Man, 21, 'on lovely day out with friends' drowned at Crosby beach

Hamza Mansoor was visiting the beach with four of his friends

Liverpool Echo · Sep 28, 2022

Man saved by hovercraft after getting stuck in the mud

The hovercraft was on a training exercise on Crosby Beach

Liverpool Echo · Aug 20, 2022

RNLI lifeguard rescue truck sinks into sand and disappears on Crosby beach

Despite their best efforts to save the truck it sunk as the tide came in

Liverpool Echo · Jun 20, 2022

Traumatised dad can no longer go near sea after failing to save drowning man

James Pugh, 38, dived into the sea off Crosby beach, Merseyside, to try and save student Hamza Mansoor, 22, after seeing him get swept out to sea. He later died in hospital

Daily Mirror · May 15, 2022