John Robert Plaskett, grocer & provisions dealer, 1 Ripon Street, Grimsby 1907 – colourised.

A recently colourised version of an original, photographic postcard by an unknown photographer. The poster in the window suggests that the photo was taken before Sunday 25th August 1907 but ‘1908’ is written in the sky. The shop was later a Post Office and was recently a ‘Costcutter’ and Post Office. John Robert Plaskett was born in 1866 in Swallow, Lincolnshire. He was living at 1 Ripon Street by 1897. In 1911, John Robert Plaskett, grocer, was living at ‘Fern Villa’, Queens Parade, Grimsby with wife, Fanny (born 1867), and son, John William (born 1893), and daughter, Dorothy May (born 1900), and sister-in-law, Mary Ann Whitney (born Water Newton in Hunts. in 1856). The house still stands today and it would’ve been a short walk to the Plasketts’ shop. John William Plaskett died on 6th June 1914, aged just 22. He is buried in Scartho Road Cemetery. John Robert Plaskett of 4 Queens Parade, grocer, died on 11th November 1921, aged 55 years. He is buried in Scartho Road Cemetery. Probate was granted to his wife, Fanny, and daughter, Dorothy May Plaskett (spinster). Dorothy May sadly died in 1924, aged 24. Fanny was in hospital and incapacitated by 1939 and she died in 1940. Probate was granted to Charles Thomas Smith Solicitors and George Temple Lawson, clothier. Note: 1910 – J. R. Plaskett & Son, grocers, &c., 1 & 3 Ripon Street, Grimsby.