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Victoria Flour Mills, Grimsby. Unknown photographer/publisher. The handwritten annotation on the reverse reads ‘Showing progress of new buildings – 11. 11/. 06.’

Bull Ring, Grimsby; a ‘Jay Em Jay Series Gy’ postcard c1915. One of Grimsby’s most missed views.

County Show Decorations, Grimsby 1904.

‘Pontoonites’ at work on Grimsby Docks c1908.

Butterfly Bomb Poster c1943.

British Railways Electric Railcar 4 Grimsby-Immingham 1955.

Beechfield Zoo, Grimsby: Sousie and her keeper c1930s.

Grimsby trawler Syrian returning home GY.25 c1905-1910.

Alexandra Road & Fountain, Cleethorpes c1906.

Grimsby motorcycle rally at Nun’s Farm c1910.

Motor fire-engine and escape for Grimsby 1906.

The Pier, Cleethorpes c1910.

The visit of the Prince & Princess of Wales 1879; a programme of events.

A huge tuna landed at Grimsby c1910.

‘Ross Tiger’ GY.398 1962.

Suzi Quatro flyer; Winter Gardens, Cleethorpes 1973.

Smith & Sons, Victoria Street, Grimsby c1913.

J. Pettit, butcher, in Waltham c1905.

Victoria Street, Grimsby c1906.

Grimsby Borough ‘Invicta’ Steamroller c1920.

A. A. Clarke, Steam Wagon, Grimsby c1915.

Grimsby Docks; GY.595 Britta has a power block installed 1960s.

Grimsby Town Railway Station c1911.

Alexandra Road, Cleethorpes c1920.

RRS John Biscoe at Grimsby Docks in November 1992.

The Empire Cinema, Cleethorpes c1920.

Old Market Place, Grimsby; a Jay Em Jay Series postcard c1919.

A jolly family on Cleethorpes beach by J. W. Hardy, c1920s.

Grimsby Docks; North Wall c1978.

Colourised – Cleethorpes Baker & Grocer; Jacob William Prior 1910.

‘Tram Pinch’ in Corporation Road, Grimsby c1950s.

Landing fish at Grimsby c1907.

Colourised – Edwardian Grimsby; Smethurst Memorial, People’s Park printed c1920.

Robert Cook brass advertising tray c1890s.

Great Grimsby Co-operative Society Ltd. wagons c1905.

Charlton & Co., Grimsby; workers and Karrier truck c1912.

‘Grimsby Town’ GY.246 at Grimsby in 1958.

Kingsway, Cleethorpes (detail) c1910.

Freeman Street, Grimsby c1906.

In the garden at 66 Wellington Street, Grimsby (colourised).

A cane presented to Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet MP at Grimsby 1879.

Albumen photo of Grimsby Docks; tea & coffee c1870.

Showcard advertising Ernest Cox’s finnan haddocks c1930s.

Kurt Christensen, Grimsby Docks c1990.

Pinfold Lane, Scartho c1914.

J. Duke, ironmonger, Bethlehem Street 1912.

Corporation Road and Marshall’s Mill, Grimsby c1914 – colourised.

Royal Visit to Grimsby 1912 – colourised.

A ‘Grimsby Box’ by J. H. Dobson c1910.

Riverhead, Grimsby c1920.

Steam tugs ‘Troy’ and ‘Stag’ at Grimsby c1958.

Red Ensign c1950s/1960s.

Bull Ring, Grimsby 1920s.

The Old Market & Corn Exchange, Grimsby c1910.

“Winter Water Rats”; Grimsby Docks Christmas 1910.

The Theatre Royal, Grimsby c1880s.

A ‘Butterfly Bomb’ (or Sprengbombe Dickwandig 2 kg or SD 2) c1943.

Thatched cottages in Yard Lane, Humberston c1910.

Grimsby and Cleethorpes Museum officially supports the Time Trap museum.

T. G. Tickler one shilling token from the early 20th century.

The No. 7 bus from Central Market to Flottergate 1952.

Trawler net making at COSALT c1950s.

The tower Old Market Place, Grimsby 1950s.

rnest George Ottaway; a prizewinner at the 1927 Grimsby Show.

‘Imperial Queen Flour’ bag; from Victorian Grimsby.

A 2X bus at the stop outside Cromwell Florist, Bull Ring 1960.

Header; an appreciation of Councillor Franklin Thornton’s year as Mayor of Grimsby and Chief Magistrate 1920/21.

WW2 Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) badge 1938-1941.

The opening of Immingham Dock by their Majesties on 22nd July 1912.

John and Harriet Salsbury c1930.

Train leaving Grimsby Town Station c1955.

The Star Tea Co. Ltd., 17 Freeman St., Grimsby c1912.

The ‘Butterfly Bomb’ or Sprengbombe Dickwandig 2 kg or SD 2.

Emerson-Rich wedding photo by Lowthian Bros. 1907.

Portrait of a young Grimsby man by Lowthian Bros. (detail) c1890s.

Lifeboat Hotel, Cleethorpes c1905.

Grimsby News building and the Baptist Tabernacle, Victoria Street (colourised) c1912.

Scottish herring girls knitting c1914.

J. & C. Eskriett, shipwrights, joiners & box makers c1880s.

Trawlers returning to Grimsby; a watercolour by the landscape/seascape artist, J. Geldard Walton 1902.

Soames Maltings, Grimsby; with fascinating connections c1870s.

Royal visit to Grimsby in 1958; The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are driven along Victoria Street.

Medallion with the Grimsby Coat of Arms; Tariff Reform F.C. – Winners Grimsby Charity Cup 1914.

“The Annfields”; an Ellison’s Entertainers act, Cleethorpes 1913.

Hewitt Brothers Ltd. ceramic matchstriker early C20.

Old Market Place, Grimsby c1920.

The Grimsby Museum, Ontario, Canada; we are in touch!

Walter Scott; Grimsby Town Penalty King 1909.

The Empire Cinema, Cleethorpes; a c1922 and 2022 blend.

The drinking fountain in Grant Thorold Park c1905.

The Palace Theatre, Grimsby c1907.

‘Night Hawk’ GY.822 on the slips at Doigs 1934

Grimsby’s heritage by Alexandra Dock 2022

Poster advertising a pantomime at the Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes 1959.

Carved portraits in the vault beneath the Haagensen Memorial, Laceby Cemetery 2022.

Ice House, Grimsby Docks (and the old clock on the Docks) c1906.

Overbeck’s Rejuvenator; sent all over the world from Chantry House, Grimsby 1930s.

Grimsby Hall (Clayton’s Hall) in 1830; a painting by George Skelton (1854-1932) 1895.

An early, deluxe model of Overbeck’s Rejuvenator (sold from Chantry House, Grimsby) c1928.

Osmond & Son Ltd., Grimsby; life-saving, “Lincolnshire” lambing chest c1931.

WW1 era COSALT mosaic panel ampersand 2022.

Freeman Street Market, Grimsby by Bullen c1906.

Great Central Railway rulley at Grimsby c1908.

‘Ross Panther’ GY.519 1982.

Heritage vessels in Alexandra Dock, Grimsby late 1990s.

Victoria Flour Mills, Victoria Street, Grimsby 2023.

Old Market Place, Grimsby; an artwork based on a 1905 albumen photograph.

Bowling Green Pavilion, Barretts Recreation Ground, Grimsby; Italian P.O.W. painting 2.

An Arcadian crested china figurine of ‘Tommy and his Machine Gun’ Rd. No. 657214 bearing the crest of Grimsby.

‘Recto’ GY.16 off to the fishing grounds by Shaw c1910.

Unknown Grimsby men by Topham c1920 – colourised.

Grimsby omnibus with advertising; a photo taken at the junction of Bargate and Welholme Road c1907+.

John Robert Plaskett, grocer & provisions dealer, 1 Ripon Street, Grimsby 1907 – colourised.

Thomas Lee, baker & confectioner, 15 Bull Ring (much later Evington’s toy shop), Grimsby c1905.

High Street, Cleethorpes c1900.

Portrait of a wartime policeman by B.c.c. Studios, Grimsby 1940 (detail).

Portrait of girl with doll by E. Freeman of Grimsby c1910.

A wartime, painted photograph of a small Grimsby boy by Sid Burton 1941.

Fish Dock House, East Pier, Grimsby Docks c1905.

Robert Ernest Stafford of Grimsby; WW1 memorial plaque issued to next-of-kin 1917.

A favourite image; a jolly family on Cleethorpes beach c1920s.

Grimsby Chums Battalion marching along Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby 1914.

A 1905 ‘Men of Mark’ print; George Moody (1859-1939).

A Victorian photograph album containing 112 portraits, the majority by Grimsby photographers c1870-c1890.

Moodys & Kelly advertising print 1905.

Beechfield Zoo’s Sousie by S.J. Warren c1930.

A set of four Marks & Spencer ARP warden badges c1939.

Whit Monday 14th June 1943; the worst day in the history of Grimsby and Cleethorpes!

Croxby Pond and the clubhouse of the private angling club 1970s.

The opening of Corporation Bridge, Alexandra Dock, Grimsby by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales K.G. on 19th July 1928.

Albert Edward Slater and his prize chrysanthemums c1920s.

National Fire Service mobile kitchen presented by the Canadian Red Cross Society and in use in Grimsby in 1942.

Tickler’s / Crosbie’s Marmalade; detail of a promotional statuette of Nell Gwyn c1940s/early 1950s.

‘The Mite’; 1st edition of the miniature book produced in Grimsby by Ernest A. Robinson 1891.

A faceplate from an engine order telegraph supplied by a Grimsby company c1910-1920.

Made in Grimsby; the Lloyd ‘350’ car 1936.