People’s Park by S. J. Warren c1920s – colourised.

A hand-colourised image made from a scan of an original, black and white, real photographic postcard by S. J. Warren. The postcard is unposted. A much closer look at the statue in the picture appears to show that it’s the figure of an ancient warrior (Japanese?). The figure is facing away from the camera so that pedestrians on each of the approaching footpaths get a side view. Stanley John Warren was an excellent and prolific photographer working in the Grimsby/Immingham area, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. His address was 225 Hainton Avenue, Grimsby earlier in the 1930s and 53 Ainslie St., Grimsby by later in the 1930s. Stanley Warren was born in 1890 in Leamington, Warwickshire. He served in WW1 and was a photographer in the Royal Engineers in 1921. He came to Grimsby from Eastbourne, Sussex. Stanley married Elizabeth Lingard in Grimsby, during WWII, in 1944 and he died in Grimsby in 1963, aged 72. Many important photographs, which we treasure today, are the result of the skills of Stanley John Warren. His initials ‘S.J.W’ can be seen on a large number of excellent, real photographic postcards.