The Ship Inn, Barnoldby-le-Beck c1910.

An original, unposted, real photographic postcard produced by “Jay Em Jay” Series Gy., a trade mark of Jackson & Son, publishers, Grimsby. The car, reg. no. LK 4162, is shown in many of this series of postcards. The famous ‘J.M.J’ or ‘JAY-EM-JAY (GY.)’ postcards were produced by Jackson & Son of Grimsby. The name was taken from the initials of John Middleton Jackson. Note: John Middleton Jackson, born in Grimsby in 1874. He lived at ‘Norwin Dene’, Healing in 1911. John died in Surrey in 1962. His wife, Mary Faith (née Richards), had died there two years earlier. The landlord’s name on the sign is Ernest Coxon Baylis. He was born in Nottingham in 1881 and married Lily Wilkinson at St. James’ Church, Grimsby on 20th August 1907. The couple ran The Ship Inn, Barnoldby-le-Beck for a period between 1907 and 1914. During WW1, Ernest served as a gunner for the Royal Garrison Artillery Regiment. Their daughter, Dorothy Baylis, was born in 1916. From 1919 to 1923, Ernest and Lily were living in Corporation Road, Grimsby. Eric was a grocer and wine and spirit merchant. (In 1921, the family was visiting Scarborough.). In around 1924, Ernest became the proprietor of the Masons Arms Hotel at Louth where he became on of the best-known hotel keepers in north-east Lincolnshire and earned a considerable reputation as a caterer. Ernest Coxon Baylis died of pneumonia on 13th January 1933. Lily Baylis died following an operation in St Leonards-on-Sea, where she lived for a year, in October 1934. The couple are buried in Louth Cemetery. In 1939, Dorothy was a hotel assistant in Hastings. In 1943 she enlisted with the Women’s Land Army in St Leonards-on-Sea. She married ? Ridley in Westmorland in 1943. Dorothy died in Kendal in 2011. Research by Grimsby & Cleethorpes Museum.