Blind Bert and the Blackpool Blackmailer

This is the story of Bert Coulbeck, the remarkable and highly popular blind evangelist who for many years held services on Cleethorpes beach.

Read about his life as an evangelist, the tragedies in his family that may have influenced his decision to join the ministry and the black sheep brother who followed a very different path in life.

Our thanks go to Norma White, whose research into the Coulbeck family was the starting point for this story. Norma's father Leonard Coulbeck was Bert's cousin.

If you have any further information about Bert Coulbeck, his family and his life as a Primitive Methodist minister, please let us know.

Click on the link below to read Bert's story.