Ephemera
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Grimsby’s Freddie Frinton performs “Dinner for One” at Bournemouth 1959.
Huge ‘Great Grimsby Coal, Salt & Tanning Co. Ltd.’ parcel label addressed to Canada 1933.
Page from the County Borough of Grimsby Year Book 1898
Parcel Post label; Grimsby East Marsh (GEM) 1901.
Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes programmes 1953.
Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes programme 1960.
Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes programme 1950.
Grimsby’s Violet Farebrother appears at the Theatre Royal, Brighton 1932.
Roger Philip Basil Wells (1916-1993) was an architect based in Grimsby. He was born in Grimsby and died in Grimsby. Roger Wells was a well-known collector of rare stamps and covers from all over the world. RRS ‘Bransfield’ was an ice-strengthened cargo vessel, purpose-built for the British Antarctic Survey. She was built by Robb Caledon […]
Receipt from the Caledonia Tavern, Grimsby signed by Clayton Croft 1818.
The Great Grimsby Coal, Salt & Tanning Co. Ltd., Grimsby Docks; a 1908 advertisement for their oilskin garments.
Chas Jeffs Jr, fish merchant, advertising poster 1905
An original handbill. Sam Fay, general manager.
“Kissing in Grimsby & Cleethorpes!” c1908.
The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR); receipt for stationery from William Skelton of Grimsby 1848.
Two letterheads from Trent Guns & Cartridges Ltd., Grimsby 1932 and 1934.
The registered trade mark of John Fletcher, butcher, of 152 Victoria Street, Grimsby 1890.
George Shepherd, Market Place, Grimsby, wholesale & retail grocer, tea dealer & tallow chandler; 1848 billhead.
Theatre Royal poster, Grimsby 1891; The ‘Royal Thompson Trio’ were top of the bill.
Robert Keetley, ship & boat builder, Grimsby billhead; the cost of an oak tree Midsummer 1848.
Smith & Young, ironmongers, Grimsby; receipt for gas pendant etc. bought by the MS&LR 1847.
A collection of many antique Grimsby cheques and letters etc. from 1796.
Memoranda from John H. White, Emigration Offices, Laceby 1881; of local history and international history interest.
Grimsby illustrated billhead; Thomas W. Swaby, general and fancy dealer, of The Warehouse, Freeman Street Xmas 1903.
