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In the garden at 66 Wellington Street, Grimsby.

Victorian Couple by von Dix of Grimsby c1880s.

The Channel Fleet’s visit to Grimsby in 1907.

Decorated Soldier by H. Jancowski Grimsby c1900. The dress tunic of a yeomanry cavalry officer from the Victorian period, wearing a Long Service and Good Conduct medal. The rank in those days is actually on the sleeve and no regimental badges are worn on it, the only badge being on the headdress. (Thanks Les/Kathryn.)

WWI bride and groom Johnnie and Frances by William E. Sherlock, Grimsby photographer.

Cyclist by Edwin Noble, Grimsby photographer c1890s.

Victorian lady; a CDV by Lowthian Bros of Grimsby.

Large wedding photo by ‘Spencer’s Pictorial Press’; dated August 1936, Grimsby.

Portrait of a portly man by C. Lowthian, Alexandra Road Cleethorpes.

Clee Rangers 1929-30 by J. W. Hardy, Photographer, Cleethorpes.

A portrait of a young man with cigarette by the prolific photographer, Harry Jancowski circa late-1890s.

Grimsby or Louth military man with family group by J. S. Bullen cWW1.

Boy on donkey CDV by Alfred Clark of Cleethorpes 1885.

One of a small number of images from c1930s negatives with a connection to Ed. S Rudkin, builder of Louth Road, Scarthoe.

1928 Grimsby Bride by William E. Sherlock.

Grimsby Docks Open Day 1979; The Nolan Sisters.

Grimsby Town Hall Ball; an etching photographed by Frederick Edwin Friston of Grimsby c1870s.

Portrait of a boy by George Henry Greenwood c1930s.

Lady by Window; by Jenkins & Remy c1890.

On the Buses; Grimsby in the 1950s.

Portrait of two children with unusual pushchair by A. P. Griffin of 110 Ayscough Street, Grimsby c1880.

Another Grimsby school photo by E. Stockham c1900.

Grimsby school photo by E. Stockham c1900.

Peter Kilby, Regal Cinema organist, Grimsby 1943.

Grimsby Schoolchildren with nuns.

Cowboy by Lowthian Bros.

1937 portrait of a known couple by Bcc Studios of Grimsby.

A CdV portrait of a young lady by William Garthwaite of Grimsby c1880.

Mother and daughter by G. H. Greenwood of Grimsby c1930s.

The wedding of Audrey Coulbeck to Leslie Marshall; Grimsby 1937.

Audrey Marshall; wartime bus conductress 1942.

Portrait of a baby by Frank T. Rich c1880s.

Ruth Ethel Everitt at Eleanor Street College, Grimsby c1919.

Outside 95 Earl Street, Grimsby in 1929.

Elsie Everitt, Grimsby c1924.

Portrait of a Grimsby postman by Eustace and Walker pre-1914.

‘Grimsby Man’ by Edwin Noble c1920s.

W. Audas, Grimsby photographer; studio CDV portrait of a couple in a ‘rowing boat’ c1880s.

Unknown Grimsby area nurses c1910.

E.S.F.A. footballer; Grimsby 1926.

Warren family photos (see adjacent image).

Stanley John Warren (1890-1963); photographer extraordinaire.

Unknown Grimsby workers in a back yard c1906.

Grimsby Horse Show; Sir George Doughty M.P. presents a cup c1909.

Portrait of a Nurse by Jancowski 1900.

Christmas in Hospital by Eric S. Green of Grimsby c1940s.

A portrait of an unknown young lady c1910.

Grimsby Town F.C.; 1907-1908 season.

Winnie and Joe 1920s or 1930s.

Victorian lady wearing hat by John Browne c1880s.

A hap’orth of taties and a penn’orth of fish c1907.

Stansted Street, Grimsby 1920.

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

Unknown Victorian boy by Lowthian Bros. c1890s.

Two gentlemen by Edwin Noble c1900.

Girl in fancy dress by J. W. Hardy of Cleethorpes 1920s/1930s.

‘Lady with hat’; a portrait by Lowthian Bros. c1890s

‘Madge’; a 1938 portrait by Bc.c. Studios, Grimsby.

Grimsby Round Tablers c1950.

Portrait of an unknown gentleman by W. M. Marsden of Grimsby c1890.

England’s oldest working chemist; Thomas Brown of Grimsby 1929.

The tall and the shorter by Shaw of Grimsby 1910.

Portrait of a Victorian lady by Henry Jancowski 1890s.

Couple on a tandem by Harry Shaw of Grimsby c1910.

“Winter Water Rats”; Grimsby Docks Christmas 1910.

Grimsby Amateurs Cricket Club 1904.

Portrait of a fine lady by Audas c1890.

Boy and dog by H. Cherrington of Grimsby c1870.

Portrait of a gentleman by Osborne of Grimsby c1890s.

Portrait of a young gentleman by A. Murray of Victor Street c1890s.

Lady with bicycle by Lowthian Bros., Grimsby c1905.

Boy reading book by Edwin Noble 1927.

Young lady wearing hat by J. S. Bullen c1915.

William Audas; the Grimsby photographer with a famous granddson (Group Captain William Arthur John Satchell DSO).

John; a bearded gentleman in a hat by Lowthian Bros c1890s.

An interesting studio portrait by J. W. Hardy of Cleethorpes c1920s.

Young mother and baby by Edwin Noble c1920s.

Dancer by The West End Studio, Grimsby c1920s.

Grimsby lady keeps her back yard spotless! c1950.

A farrier at work by Edwin Noble c1900.

Little girl and toy by Hardy of Cleethorpes c1920s.

Gentleman with unusual beard by Marsden of Grimsby c1890.

Emerson-Rich wedding photo by Lowthian Bros. 1907.

Portrait of a young Grimsby man by Lowthian Bros. c1890s.

A very early Grimsby studio portrait of a couple c1860s.

A Victorian CdV portrait by Henry Blackburn; possibly of Elizabeth Ann Eskriett c1900.

Paddle steamer trip from Grimsby to Spurn Point 1951.

Unknown mayor, possibly Sir Henry Bennett (timber merchant), by Audas c1890.

Small studio portrait of a man by The American Photographic Company, Grimsby c1890s.

Studio portrait of a small girl and a rough sea by J. W. Hardy of Cleethorpes c1920.

A rare, Victorian CdV portrait by Charles Lowthian; possibly of Elizabeth Ann Eskriett c1890s.

A charming portrait of a mother and her two children looking at a book c1890s.

A cabinet card portrait of an unknown lady by Henry Blackburn c1900.

Charles Robinson Beckett and Annie Brown outside 16 Clayton Street 1950s.

Edwardian housemaid; most probably Hypatia Bickers of Grimsby.

Lily Anna Palmer Beckett & Doris Ellen Palmer Beckett of New Cleethorpes c1920.

Fisherman by Lowthian Bros. c1890s.

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

Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes; “Maclaine & Mac” July 1910.

Four children; a group portrait from the Audas family’s Cleethorpes studio c1905

Two boys on donkeys by Cleethorpes Pier by Robert Audas c1905.

Edwardian Grimsby working men with a single, leather shoulder pad c1905.

Portrait of a navy officer and his sea scout son by Clem Kenning, photographer, c1913/1914 or 1918.

Elsie Miriam Brown by Leonard J. Watson, Grimsby photographer c1920.

James Kirkby Riggall (1828-1898), grocer, of Grimsby; a portrait by E. T. Jenkins 1887 (YMCA interest).

Young man wearing suit; an early studio portrait by Edwin Noble (1867-1948) of Grimsby c1885-1889.

Molly by William E. Sherlock 1919.

A portrait of two children by William E. Sherlock c1910

League of Pity Handicraft Guild, Cleethorpes 1935.

The skill of our Victorian photographers; Dr Joshua Law Kerr by C. Lowthian of Cleethorpes 1890s.

William Fletcher, GCR Fire Brigade officer 1911.

Portrait of a young woman wearing an RAF sweetheart brooch by the photographer Edwin Noble c1940.

William and Ethel Hopcroft by Lowthian Bros. c1904.

Studio portrait of a fisherman wearing a gansey by Edward Jeffray, Grimsby and London c1880s.

Mother and baby by J. W. Hardy c1920s.

Skipper Ives of Grimsby at Brandenburg P.O.W. Camp, Germany 1917-1918.

Matrons of honour and bridesmaids by Alphred 1933.

Young lady with fluffy stole by Greenwood of Grimsby c1910.

Leslie Quickfall and his dog 1921.

Unknown Grimsby men by Topham c1920 – colourised.

A studio portrait from the Eskriett photo collection by J. W. Hardy c1913.

Studio portraits of S. Phillips and Miss Phillips by H. F. Kreutz of Grimsby c1870s.

Eskriett Family Collection; Young girl with racquet and ball c1905.

Little girl with ringlets looking at a newspaper on a pavement c1920s.

Lady with lovely dress by Brotherton, Grimsby c1890s.

Ida Mary Snelson (1910-1913) by C. Lewis 1913.

Wintringham Grammar School class photo May 1953.

An early studio portrait of a family at Cleethorpes by A. Clark c1880.

Portrait of a Victorian lady by Monsieur George, Grimsby c1900.

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

In remembrance of A. E. Whiteing Christmas 1896.

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

Portrait of a young lady by William E. Sherlock of Grimsby .

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

Teachers at Old Clee Primary School 1960.

Levi Stephenson by Henry Clark c1870.

A very early studio portrait of a lady by Henry Clark, ‘On the Cliff’, Cleethorps c1860s.

Portrait of a woman by Ralph William Farmer, photographer, 3 Old Market Place, Grimsby circa late-1940s.

Salvation Army; ‘The Good Old Army’ raising money at Cleethorpes c1920s.

Hardy’s camera men on the promenade wore red coats! The photographer, John William Hardy, was born in Sheffield on 10th February 1876. He was the son of a newsagent. John married Minna in Sheffield in 1905. He was a photographer by then. He came to Grimsby to work at 42 Freeman Street, like a number […]

‘The Clee Pierrots’, Cleethorpes entertainers 1922.

Albert Edward Slater and his prize chrysanthemums c1920s.

Studio portrait of a young lady by Leonard John Watson c1925.

Girl in a swimsuit by J. W. Hardy of Cleethorpes circa early 1920s.

Lady with a stonemason’s tools by Clark’s of Cleethorpes c1870s.

Grimsby Coxwain Richard Elijah ‘Dick’ Britton c1900.

Portrait of a lady by Thomas Canham of Kent Street, Grimsby c1870.

WW2 Nursing Auxiliary nurse, Grimsby 1944.

Portrait of a Victorian couple by C. E. Patrick of Louth 1890s (Cleethorpes connections).

A CdV portrait of a young man wearing a hat by William Garthwaite of Grimsby c1880.
