Wartime
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Grimsby Post Office Home Guard Battalion WW2.
A cover sent from Knockaloe P.O.W. Camp, Isle of Man to Grimsby 1916.
MFV 722 (Motor Fishing Vessel) at Grimsby during WW2.
RAF Kelstern: veterans pay tribute to colleagues from No. 625 Lancaster Squadron who did not return 1956.
Unveiling and Dedication of a Memorial Stone to 625 Squadron, RAF Kelstern 1964: order of proceedings.
VE Day (or VJ Day) celebrations: 60 Lestrange Street, Cleethorpes 1945.
A horn from a standard WW2 British sea mine.
NFS funeral; Beacon Avenue, Cleethorpes 1944.
WW2 Lincolnshire County Division / 212th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) ‘Tulip’ badges.
WW2 ARP badge from Normanby Park Steel Works; John Lysaght Ltd..
WW2 Women’s Land Army breeches, corduroy 1945.
Ten Land Army ladies sitting on a fence.
National Fire Service mobile kitchen presented by the Canadian Red Cross Society and in use in Grimsby in 1942.
A 9t gold tag from a wartime ID bracelet. The bracelet is missing. Olive’s E.D. Letter Code / Schedule No. on the 1939 Register is TKAM 309/2, as shown on the reverse of the tag. Olive Wilkes was born in Grimsby in 1894. She was the daughter of Thomas Henry Wilkes, sawyer, and Amelia Wilkes. […]
German markings on a wing of a butterfly bomb dropped on Grimsby on 14th June 1943.
Butterfly bomb wings from the Grimsby area raid on 14th June 1943
(William) Usher Banks, Cranwell Lodge (now RAF Cranwell) c1910.
Cold War; Gloster Meteor F.8, WF654 at RAF Binbrook 1969.
A tool provided with every Anderson air raid shelter. The shelters were self-assembled in the garden. The ‘rat tail’ handle went through the holes in the galvanised, corrugated, 14 gauge steel sheets to align them ready for the bolts to go through. After construction, the ‘rat tail’ spanner was kept inside the shelter to be […]
Kanonenboot HMS ‘Grimsby’ 1933.
Whit Monday 14th June 1943; the worst day in the history of Grimsby and Cleethorpes!
Luftwaffe target map; one Grimsby building highlighted 1940.
A set of four Marks & Spencer ARP warden badges c1939.
A military funeral procession at Grimsby (looking from Freeman Street Market) c1914.
