Historic Figures
Please let us know if you can offer an interesting ‘exhibit’ for this page. You must own the original item and we require a good quality ‘.jpg’ image file. We cannot use images copied from other websites, books, eBay etc.
Joseph Hewins and Hewins & Goodhand built many of Grimsby’s fine buildings.
Sir John Dugdale Astley MP; a print from ‘Vanity Fair’ 1877.
Dame Madge Kendal, DBE, Grimsby Actress (1848-1935).
Alfred Mellor Watkin; MP for Great Grimsby 1877-1880.
George Tweedy, Grimsby Town goalkeeper c1939.
Sir George Doughty, M.P. at his home, Waltham Hall c1910.
Sir George and Lady Doughty 1910.
Tom Wing; Grimsby M.P. in 1910.
A ‘prudence’ of Grimsby area vicars c1891.
Grimsby Town F.C.; 1907-1908 season.
A cane presented to Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet MP at Grimsby 1879.
Thomas George Tickler (1852-1938) J.P. (of jam fame) c1910.
Henri Josse; a naturalised Frenchman becomes MP for Great Grimsby 1892.
William Audas; the Grimsby photographer with a famous granddson (Group Captain William Arthur John Satchell DSO).
John and Harriet Salsbury c1930.
Royal visit to Grimsby in 1958; The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are driven along Victoria Street.
Studio portrait of George Skelton Stephenson J.P., M.D., M.B., C.M., physician and surgeon 1891.
Walter Scott; Grimsby Town Penalty King 1909.
James Kirkby Riggall (1828-1898), grocer, of Grimsby; a portrait by E. T. Jenkins 1887 (YMCA interest).
Brenda Fisher (1927-2022).
Wilfred Pickles Signing Autographs in Grimsby c1956.
Grimsby’s ‘Fighting Fisherman’; Jerry Thompson (1888-1969) by Harry Shaw c1905.
The grave of Dame Eugenia Doughty O.B.E. (1874-1934), wife of Sir George Doughty (1854-1914), at Scartho Road Cemetery.
A 1905 ‘Men of Mark’ print; George Moody (1859-1939).
A 1905 ‘Men of Mark’ print; Henry Kelly Sr (1844-1909).
Charles Chapman, cattle oil manufacturer, town councillor and guardian of poor, Grimsby c1880s.
Levi Stephenson; coxswain of the first lifeboat at Cleethorpes 1868-1882.
Violet Farebrother, actress c1950s.
Violet Farebrother; an Edwardian costume design sketch c1910s.
Edward, Prince of Wales by the Coat of Arms of Great Grimsby 1928.
1933 letter from Violet Farebrother.
Grimsby’s Freddie Frinton in “His Favourite Family”, Bournemouth Pier Theatre Programme 1968.
Grimsby’s Freddie Frinton in “Camp Beds”; Bournemouth Pier Theatre Programme 1964.
Violet Farebrother in ‘Guilty’ at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith 1944.
Violet Farebrother appears in Grimsby 1928.
Violet Farebrother in ‘Where Angels Fear To Tread’ at St. Martin’s Theatre, London 1963.
Violet Farebrother in ‘The Dark is Light Enough’ at the Aldwych Theatre, London 1954.
Violet Farebrother in ‘Nurse Benson’ at the Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London 1918.
Violet Farebrother in ‘A Likely Tale’ at the Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London 1956.
Violet Farebrother performs in plays by William Shakespeare at the New Century Theatre, Broadway, New York City 1947.
A signed portrait of Violet Farebrother 1945.
“Thoughts” by Grimsby’s Freddie Frinton 1966.
Norma Procter, the famous contralto c1950s.
“London Laughs” with Grimsby’s Freddie Frinton 1966.