Cleethorpes
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Humberston(e) Avenue, near Cleethorpes. Published by Albert Gait, Cleethorpes and printed in Belgium pre-WW1. Not posted but found its way to California.
Cleethorpes postcard with Friese-Greene family connection (1).
Cleethorpes postcard with Friese-Greene family connection (2).
Cleethorpes postcard with Friese-Greene family connection (3).
Cleethorpes postcard with Friese-Greene family connection (4).
Great Grimsby Street Tramways – The Last Car from Cleethorpes; a comic postcard by F. Macleod.
Fred Turner’s Central Fish Restaurant in Grimsby or Cleethorpes. His restaurant and ‘fresh fish stores’ is decorated for what must be the coronation of King George V in 1911. We assume that it’s Fred outside the shop holding a fish.
The Kingsway Pavilion, Cleethorpes c1925. A small, printed postcard by an unknown publisher. It was posted from Cleethorpes to Mademoiselle Christiane Payet in Fontainebleau, France in October 1925.
Royal Kinema Palace, Cleethorpes; Destroyed by Fire 1919.
E. S. Rudkin, Builder, Scarthoe; processed by Sid Burton of Grimsby c1930s.
‘Parable of the Privy Boxes’ 1908.
Levi Stephenson, an old Cleethorper. A c1905, or earlier, postcard.
Grimsby Road, Cleethorpes c1945.
Olympia, Kingsway, Cleethorpes 1935.
Lifeboat Hotel, Kingsway, Cleethorpes pre-WW1.
The Beach, Cleethorpes; a Herbert Forman postcard c1905.
Concert Hall, Cleethorpes Pier c1880s.
Paddling at Cleethorpes pre-WW1.
The 1897 Jubilee Fountain, Cleethorpes in its original position c1905.
Entrance to the Pier, Cleethorpes c1880s.
The Sands, Cleethorpe c1875.
Isaac’s Hill, Cleethorpes pre-WW1.
Pier and Pavilion, Cleethorpes c1914.
Steps and Prom, Cleethorpes 1940s.
Paddle Steamer PS Humber c1913.
Alexandra Road, Cleethorpes c1909.
Alexandra Road & Fountain, Cleethorpes c1906.
Figure 8 Railway, Cleethorpes c1908.
The Pier Approach, Cleethorpes c1930.
Cleethorpes; The Pier c1905.
Cleethorpes; the Dolphin Hotel c1905.
The Ritz Cinema, Cleethorpes in 1937.
Cleethorpes Marineland & Zoo; 1966-1974.
The Fountain, Cleethorpes by S. J. Warren c1930.
Yarra House, Alexandra Road, Cleethorpes c1890.
Bus in Grimsby Road in 1968.
The Pier, Cleethorpes c1910.
Parish Church & Chapel, Cleethorpes; Poulton’s Series c1880s
The Grotto Tea Room/Gardens, Cleethorpes c1910.
The Grotto, Cleethorpes by S. J. Warren 1925.
Busy at Cleethorpes c1912.
Wollaston Road, Cleethorpes c1908.
Kingsway Parade, Cleethorpes.
Cleethorpes Station cWW1; ladies cleaning carriage windows.
Cleethorpes Baker & Grocer; Jacob William Prior 1910.
Alexandra Road, Cleethorpes c1920.
The Empire Cinema, Cleethorpes c1920.
A jolly family on Cleethorpes beach by J. W. Hardy, c1920s.
The Hindenburg over Cleethorpes June 1936.
Cleethorpes shopfront; Alexandra Road (A1098) c1905.
The Bird’s Nest Cafe, Boating Lake, Cleethorpes c1933.
Kingsway, Cleethorpes c1910.
The Opening of Kingsway, Cleethorpes 1906; Pier Pavilion.
J. W. Carr, Cleethorpes Chemist c1910.
Family posing with donkeys on Cleethorpes beach c1930.
Martin Aviation Co., Cleethorpes beach c1921/1922.
Copper printing plate; S. E. Wright, chemist, Cleethorpes c1940s/1950s.
Cleethorpes Promenade c1906.
Cleethorpes Jeeps 1953.
Electricity Board Showrooms, Cleethorpes 1953.
Boy on Donkey, Cleethorpes Beach c1920s.
Alexandra Road, Cleethorpes c1910.
Shops beside the Empire Cinema, Alexandra Road, Cleethorpes 1920.
High Street, Cleethorpes c1905.
Excursion train arrives at Cleethorpes c1914.
Signs in Alexandra Road, Cleethorpes c1912.
Cleethorpes Souvenirs.
Cleethorpes; Whit Monday 1909.
Albert Road, Cleethorpes c1913.
Cleethorpes Town Hall c1906.
Dolphin Hotel, Cleethorpes; 1842 bill.
Interior of the Pier Pavilion, Cleethorpes c1905.
Cleethorpes Musical Festival Challenge Shield.
Cleethorpes figure 8 railway c1908.
Cleethorpes Pier Concert Hall fire 1903.
Bus on Isaac’s Hill, Cleethorpes 1959.
Railway Station, Cleethorpe c1860s.
Julie Andrews’ autograph 1954.
Thatched cottages in Yard Lane, Humberston c1910.
A family on Cleethorpes beach with Nu-Tex buckets c1920s.
Pier and pavilion, Cleethorpes c1907.
Grafton College, 71-72 Kingsway, Cleethorpes 1911.
Grafton House, Cleethorpes c1926.
South Beach & Pier Entrance, Cleethorpes (Children’s Corner) c1920s.
The Promenade, Cleethorpes c1930.
Old Clee Church in winter c1910.
A wartime Home Guard children’s party in Alexandra Road Cleethorpes.
A large group of visitors paddling at Cleethorpes c1920s.
Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes c1907.
Cleethorpes gardens and pier photochrom pre-1903.
Cleethorpes Promenade and Pier c1900.
GR7773 and County Fish & Chips, Grimsby Road 1959.
The Bathing Pool, Cleethorpes c1925.
Kingsway from the fountain c1936.
Cleethorpes Borough Council Shield after 1974.
Horse and trap by C. Baxter(?), Cleethorpes c1890s.
Alexandra Road (not Street), Cleethorpes c1928.
Grimsby Road, New Cleethorpes c1910.
Pleasure Island ‘PAY HERE’ sign.
I wish you were here with me at Cleethorpes c1920s.
Lady Henderson opening Kingsway, Cleethorpes 1906.
Lifeboat Hotel, Cleethorpes c1905.
North Promenade & Hawkey’s Restaurant, Cleethorpes circa late-1930s.
No. 9 bus to Barnoldby-le-Beck outside the Wimpy in Cleethorpes circa early-1960s.
The opening of Kingsway 1906; camera-shy or asleep?
Leaking boot & lily pond at night c1938.
Cleethorpes Pier illuminated at night c1938.
The opening of Cleethorpes British Legion Club 1923; a key presented to General Sir Ian Hamilton.
Cleethorpes illuminations; piggy ice-cream seller 1968.
Cleethorpes illuminations; dogs 1968.
“The Annfields”; an Ellison’s Entertainers act, Cleethorpes 1913.
Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes; “Maclaine & Mac” July 1910.
Jubilee Fountain and Cleethorpes Pier illuminated at night c1930s.
Two boys on donkeys by Cleethorpes Pier by Robert Audas c1905.
The original ‘Boy with the Leaking Boot’, Cleethorpes 1965.
The opening of Kingsway, Cleethorpes on 12th July 1906; Alexandra Road.
Funderbirds are go! Grimsby Docks 1992.
The Empire Cinema, Cleethorpes; a c1922 and 2022 blend.
A Victorian view of Cleethorpes Pier (and horses) c1885.
A Victorian view of Cleethorpes from the Pier c1885.
Serious coastal erosion; Sea Bank Road (now Kingsway), Cleethorpes c1903.
New shelters, Kingsway, Cleethorpes c1919.
4472 ‘Flying Scotsman’ at Cleethorpes Railway Station in 1969.
The night the future Dusty Springfield came to Cleethorpes 1959.
150 years in the life of Cleethorpes Pier (2022).
Poster advertising a pantomime at the Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes 1959.
Opening Kingsway, Cleethorpes; Grimsby Road-Park Street junction 1906.
Winter Gardens, Cleethorpes 1989.
Cliff Pharmacy, 1 Alexandra Road, Cleethorpes c1903.
Winter Gardens July 1994.
A family day out at the seaside at Cleethorpes c1940s.
Old house in High Street, Cleethorpes c1903.
Poster advertising an evening of variety acts at the Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes; Jackie Dennis, Larry Grayson etc. 1959.
Shops on Alexandra Road, Cleethorpes 1920.
Sea Bank Road, Cleethorpes c1890s.
Albert Terrace, Albert Road, Cleethorpes c1893.
Bumper car at Wonderland, Cleethorpes c1950s.
Waverley Commercial Hotel, 13 High Cliff Road, Cleethorpes 1935. (Now the central part of The Smugglers.)
Tepid Sea Water Swimming Bath, Cleethorpes c1890s.
Concert Hall and Pier, Cleethorpes c1911.
Anglia TV; Miss Cleethorpes 1967 silver bracelet.
Rod Temperton who wrote ‘Thriller’, and many other well-known songs, was born at this address in Cleethorpes.
The Maternity Home, Cleethorpes (later the Croft Baker Maternity Home) c1930.
The Pier, Cleethorpes c1903 (before the fire).
The Riviera Stores, 44 Kingsway c1920 and Squire Marshall and Ethel Hall who ran the same shop c1930s.
Cleethorpes Urban District Council; brass tramway licences 1936.
Small collection of unidentified items made of brass.
Former railway station Refreshment Rooms and station Clocktower, Cleethorpes c1965.
Planting Kingsway Gardens c1905.
Storm damage during the construction of Kingsway, Cleethorpes 1905.
Humberston (Grimsby) WI 1938; Winners of the ‘Festival of Drama’ 1938.
‘Sea Car’ by J. W. Hardy c1920s.
Brooklands Avenue, Cleethorpes looking from Oxford Street c1920.
Donkey cart rides; Twell of Cleethorpes 1935.
Atkin Bros., high class fruit and greengrocery, 35 Kingsway, Cleethorpes c1930s.
High Street, Cleethorpes c1900.
A WW1 Grafton crested china figure of a soldier with inscription ‘Over the Top’ and the Cleethorpes crest, marked to the base.
The Fountain, Sea Front, Cleethorpes 1955 (posted 1964).
An early studio portrait of a family at Cleethorpes by A. Clark c1880.
J. R. Hancock & Son Ltd.; candy tin 1930s.
Cleethorpes Pier 1966.
Young woman posing in front of Cleethorpes Pier 1920s.
Kingsway, High Cliff and Brighton Street junction, Cleethorpes c1920.
The Grotto Tea Room/Gardens, Cleethorpes (detail) c1910.
The Grotto, Cleethorpes by S. J. Warren (detail) 1925.
Church Farm, Humberston 1964.
An original photograph from an album. The photograph was taken by ‘Wondersnaps Wonderland and Cleethorpes’. Other photographs from the same album are dated 1951.
‘Cleethorpes Advancement Association’ enamel badge c1930.
Arcadia after the storm 1953.
Street trader selling Cleethorpes oysters c1890.
Cleethorpes Station clock 1969.
WW1 Cleethorpes v Grimsby lawn bowls trophy 1916.
A heavy horse and cart ride on Cleethorpes beach c1930s.
The effect of heavy snowfall at Cleethorpes whilst the tide was out 1929.
Icicles under Cleethorpes Pier 1963? or 1947? (or 1940?)
Walking along the promenade in c1930.
The Gardens Bar, Winter Gardens 1989.
‘Sea Car’ (2) by J. W. Hardy 1920s.
A 1905 ‘Men of Mark’ print; George Moody (1859-1939).
Ross Castle, Cleethorpes by J.M.J c1910.
Cleethorpes gasometer (gas holder) c1931.
Parkin’s Fruit Stores, Cambridge Street, Cleethorpes c1920.
The rear of Victoria Terrace, facing Grant Street, Cleethorpes c1912.
John Crockatt Ltd., dyers and cleaners, 23 Sea View Street, Cleethorpes c1920.
Philip Altman L.C.V., watchmaker & jeweller and dealer in violins and accessories, Cleethorpes c1912.
Fred Turner’s ‘Central Fish Restaurant’, 37 Market Street, Cleethorpes c1911.
Cleethorpes Railway Station buildings by Ralph William Farmer c1960.
The Bandstand, Kingsway, Cleethorpes c1915.
Cleethorpes Pier Fire; a Charles Voisey picture postcard 1903.
The Great Fire on Cleethorpes Pier by Harry Harrison 1903.
Marketplace (Market Place), Cleethorpes by Doncaster Rotophoto c1920.
Levi Stephenson by Henry Clark c1870.
Old Clee Church by Edward Eaton Brannan (1886-1957) c1930s.
Old signal box block instrument shelf plate “SUGGITTS LANE”.
Levi Stephenson; coxswain of the first lifeboat at Cleethorpes 1868-1882.
Lane in Old Clee c1910 (Greethams Lane).
An original, unposted real photographic postcard. No publisher is given. The location is the junction of Cambridge Street and Knoll Street, outside the Town Hall.
Werge Bros, chemists, Grimsby and Cleethorpes; unused bottle labels c1930s.
An old print, on thin paper, from a photograph most probably taken by Arthur Clifford Collis (c1865-1920). This view shows the terrible state Sea Bank Road was in just as work on the sea defences and promenade was commencing. The buildings were in great danger of being lost. The major engineering project resulting in the […]
Jimmy Slater’s Super Follies, Cleethorpes, 1939.
The Promenade, Cleethorpes; “F.C.C. Series” pictorial postcard with fancy border c1910-1920.
Salvation Army; ‘The Good Old Army’ raising money at Cleethorpes c1920s.
Olympia by Barnes’ Kiosk, King’s Parade, Cleethorpes c1935.
Cleethorpes from the South; published by Herbert Forman of Cleethorpes c1917.
It appears the the Jubilee Fountain was leaning!
Eight trams inside the Pelham Road Depot, Cleethorpes 1936.
‘The Clee Pierrots’, Cleethorpes entertainers 1922.
Promenading and knitting by J. W. Hardy c1930.
Unknown, thatched cottages in the Cleethorpes area c1906.
A rough sea at Cleethorpes c1915.
Bunny’s Place, Grant Street, Cleethorpes advertisement 1977.
Sketch of the Mermaid Restaurant, Cleethorpes; from a c1989 advertisement.
Cleethorpes Youth Hostel, Yarra House patch c1950s.
A wonderful J. W. Hardy photograph of a family group on Cleethorpes beach c1920s.
The Pier, Cleethorpes; Startime 1980 starring Clodagh Rodgers, Lonnie Donegan and Mike Newman.
Cleethorpes roller hockey club girls 1910 (and a link to a once-famous, Cleethorpes murder).
Cleethorpes Pier; a souvenir ceramic relief tea cup 1890s.
The Dolphin Hotel and the drop down to the beach c1884.
‘Cleethorpes Promenade & Beach’ by Photocrom, Zürich c1898.
Prince Albert Victor planting a ‘Wellingtonia gigantea’ tree at Cleethorpes Pier Gardens 1885.
Albert Alton Watts, baker and confectioner, 95 Barcroft Street, Cleethorpes pre-1924.
A shaving of original blue paint from the Mermaid Café, Cleethorpes 2025.
The Jubilee Fountain, Cleethorpes c1925.
Albert Augustine Watts in the bakery at 95 Barcroft Street c1925.
Bus (TEE 550) in Cleethorpes Market Place (Street) 1962.
Chalets at Carrington Camp, Cleethorpes c1955.
Hancock’s Amusements, Cleethorpes; a ‘Donlion Series’ postcard circa mid-1920s.
East Coast Jazz Festival, Cleethorpes 1962.
Cleethorpes postcard showing a lady with a fashionable dress and a giant hat supporting the three owls of Cleethorpes c1910.
Wonderland Amusements, Cleethorpes; boy on motorbike 1950.
Aeroplane flying from the sands at Cleethorpes c1920-1923.
A family of four on Cleethorpes beach by Hardy c1920s.
Kingsway, Cleethorpes featuring the Jubilee Fountain c1925.
Carole Spencer, Miss Cleethorpes 1968.
Trams on Kingsway / High Cliff Road and shops in Brighton Street, Cleethorpes c1910.
A silver trowel presented to Walwyn T. Chapman on the occasion of his laying the foundation stone of Barcroft Street Schools 1895.