The Jubilee Fountain, Cleethorpes c1925.

A small, photograph printed by John Rands of Immingham. The image belongs to Immingham Museum. Dated c1925. This beautiful, ornate, cast-iron, drinking fountain was presented to the town of Cleethorpes by the Grant family to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The fountain was originally erected in front of the Dolphin Hotel at the Alexandra Road / Market Street / Sea Road junction. In the early 1900s, it was moved to this location near Brighton Slipway. In 1949, a couple of the pillars were damaged by a car and the fountain was subsequently removed. What happened to it then? Surely, it could’ve been repaired? Note: “Lewis’s” on the roof in the background. Lewis Jones had a penny bazaar in Cleethorpes.