Wartime

Perspex from a Grimsby area Avro Lancaster crash site.

WW1 British Army Volunteer Training Corps Bugle by Besson & Co., London.

WW1 British Army Volunteer Training Corps Bugle by Besson & Co., London.

WW1 British Army Volunteer Training Corps Bugle by Besson & Co., London.

WW2 ‘butterfly bomb’ (or SD 2) smashes pavement.

WWI bride and groom Johnnie and Frances by William E. Sherlock, Grimsby photographer.

Grimsby War Memorial by B. Barnes and Son, Cleethorpes c1920s.

WW1 Royal Field Artillery Private. Photo taken by J. S. Bullen of Grimsby and Louth.

The wall of a building in Cleethorpes engraved with names (1930s and 1940s).

Grimsby or Louth military man with family group by J. S. Bullen cWW1.

A WW1 studio portrait of a private serving with a battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment (seated) together with a private serving with the Australian Imperial Forces (AIF).

Grandma’s WW2 Gas Mask; Hainton Avenue, Grimsby.

Grimsby Home Guard Soldiers; a WW2 photo by S. J. Warren.

River trip to see the Humber Forts c1940s.

Invasion of Grimsby; landing troops pre-WW1.

Cold War; Bloodhound missile at RAF North Coates c1962.

Cold War; Bloodhound missiles at RAF North Coates c1962.

WW1 Grimsby and Cleethorpes Schools fundraising certificate.

WW2 bomb damage; Cleethorpe Road.

Bomb damage in Abbey Park Road, Grimsby in August 1940.

A 1919 Grimsby certificate awarded for services rendered during the Great War.

Audrey Marshall; wartime bus conductress 1942.

Trawler skippers’ secret code book WW2-era.

Butterfly Bomb Poster c1943.

Gordon Ernest “Tiger” Camplin; decorated WW2 Spitfire Pilot from Cleethorpes.

William Daniel Rodgers; a 1939 portrait by George Frederic Cannons.

Essex Regiment Officers in Grimsby during WW2.

Regal Cinema, Grimsby; 1945 programme.

Regal Cinema, Grimsby; 1945 programme.

Grimsby munitions workers.

Grimsby ‘Chums’ Battalion, Lincs. Regt. 1914.

Grimsby ARP Wardens HQ c1941-1943.

Wartime tinned peas label.

10th (‘Grimsby Chums’) Service Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment; young soldiers training at Brocklesby Park 1915.

WW1 Great Central Railway; women workers at Grimsby.

WWII Autograph Book; Lincolnshire POWs.

WW1 Coldstream Guards; John Swaby of Bargate, Grimsby.

Heraldic badge of 460 Squadron of the RAAF 1944.

Grimsby Fire Service in 1940.

Signals at Grimsby Town Railway Station 1940.

Grimsby ARP banner 1940.

WW2 Mark & Spencer A.R.P. enamel badges.

WW1; Grimsby Docks Poster 1914.

Grimsby area English Electric Lightning crash 1968.

Portrait of a Victorian Soldier by Lowthian Bros., Grimsby c1890.

A silver, wartime A.F.S. bracelet which belonged to Eric James Chapman of Park Drive, Grimsby.

Funeral of Minesweepers at Grimsby in 1916 Photo. 1.

Funeral of Minesweepers at Grimsby in 1916 Photo. 2.

Funeral of Minesweepers at Grimsby in 1916 Photo. 3.

German U-boat in Alexandra Dock c1950.

Lincolnshire Home Guard; RAF Digby c1940.

Grimsby Section R.A.M.C. at Coddington 1913.

Cold war era; Lightning crash near Grimsby 1968.

English Electric Lightning at R.A.F. Binbrook 1976.

The crew of ‘HMS Selkirk’ at Grimsby 1941.

H.M.S. Ostrich; a Grimsby girl for me c1917.

Cow & Gate Milk-Food tin; use before April 15 1942

‘Butterfly bomb’ lodged in a hedge c1943.

A ‘Butterfly Bomb’ (or Sprengbombe Dickwandig 2 kg or SD 2) c1943.

Cleethorpes Home Guard.

‘SS Rohilla’ at Immingham 1913.

German butterfly bomb SD2

A wartime letter from J. S. Doig (Grimsby) Ltd., shipbuilders 1939.

A wartime Home Guard children’s party in Alexandra Road Cleethorpes.

A house fire in Mathews Street, Cleethorpes c1939 Photo 5.

A house fire in Mathews Street, Cleethorpes c1939 Photos 3 & 4.

A house fire in Mathews Street, Cleethorpes c1939 Photos 1 & 2.

WW1 East Riding RGA protecting New Waltham Wireless Station.

Walwyn Tyson of Grimsby; two very different Christmases 1910 & 1916.

A Christmas card sent from Ruhleben internment camp to Grimsby in 1916.

WW2 Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) badge 1938-1941.

Lily King’s wartime identity bracelet c1939.

HMS ‘‌Grimsby’‌ at Malta 1935.

HMS ‘Grimsby’ c1938.

Site of the former RAF Grimsby 2021.

Landing Party from HMS Illustrious at Scartho Hall 1915.

WW2 era Christmas and New Year card from RAF Manby.

Grimsby A.R.P. on exercise WW2.

The 25th Anniversary of the English Electric Lightning, Binbrook 1979.

The Click’em Inn, near Swinhope; WW2 interest.

An INERT ‘Butterfly Bomb’ or Sprengbombe Dickwandig 2 kg or SD 2.

A war savings campaign ‘Wings for Victory’ plaque 1943.

Wartime chocolate; Fry’s Chocolate Sandwich c1941.

A WW2 identity bracelet which belonged to Rose Eskriett of Grimsby.

WW1 Humber Forts at low tide 2022.

Butterfly bombs were everywhere!

World War II era; concert party (men dressed as women).

HMS ‘Borealis’ at Grimsby; H M Mine-clearance Service 1919.

‘Ghost’ outlines of a WW2 Italian POW camp at Weelsby Woods revealed by drought.

Relic shell of a WW2 ‘butterfly bomb’ bomblet from Grimsby; totally inert 1943.

Cover of a WW1 Field Post Office letter to Joseph Ogle of Atlas Saw Mills, Victoria Street, Grimsby Christmas 1916.

German war graves at Scartho Road Cemetery.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission – Grimsby (Scartho Road) Cemetery.

Grimsby (Scartho Road) Cemetery; the grave of John Eid, Norwegian sailor (1907-1942).

WWII AB23 butterfly bomb container (inert – this was never a bomb).

Pingley P.O.W. Camp, Brigg; a letter home from prisoner Otto Weitendorf 1946.

WW2 Lincolnshire Home Guard; ‘Lincoln imp’ cloth shoulder patches (worn and unworn).

Bowling Green Pavilion, Barretts Recreation Ground, Grimsby; Italian P.O.W. painting 1.

Bowling Green Pavilion, Barretts Recreation Ground, Grimsby; Italian P.O.W. painting 2.

A photo taken on 9th March 2023. The three wonderful paintings painted by Italian P.O.W.s can be seen on Thursdays when the Pavilion is open for ‘Community Coffee Mornings and Light Refreshments’ 11:00am-3:00pm.

Grimsby and Cleethorpes Volunteer Training Corps inspection at People’s Park, March 14th 1915.

An Arcadian crested china figurine of ‘Tommy and his Machine Gun’ Rd. No. 657214 bearing the crest of Grimsby.

WW2 butterfly bomb fragments.

The Midnight Watch – July 1943; a large number of anti-personnel bombs were dropped on “an East Coast town”.

Air-dropped German propaganda leaflet 1941.

RAF Kelstern 625 Squadron WW2 period bullion badge “We Avenge”.

ARP nurses by a door on the Nacton Street/Tomline Street corner, Grimsby 1939.

Key to a March 1943 plan of RAF Grimsby.

A pair of local WW2 National Fire Service helmets.

A wartime, painted photograph of a small Grimsby boy by Sid Burton 1941.

Robert Ernest Stafford of Grimsby; WW1 memorial plaque issued to next-of-kin 1917.

Grimsby Chums Battalion marching along Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby 1914.

10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment “Grimsby Chums” at Brocklesby Camp c1914.

A military funeral procession at Grimsby (looking from Freeman Street Market) c1914.

A set of four Marks & Spencer ARP warden badges c1939.

Luftwaffe target map; one Grimsby building highlighted 1940.

Whit Monday 14th June 1943; the worst day in the history of Grimsby and Cleethorpes!

Kanonenboot HMS ‘Grimsby’ 1933.

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 […]

Cold War; Gloster Meteor F.8, WF654 at RAF Binbrook 1969.

(William) Usher Banks, Cranwell Lodge (now RAF Cranwell) c1910.

Butterfly bomb wings from the Grimsby area raid on 14th June 1943

German markings on a wing of a butterfly bomb dropped on Grimsby on 14th June 1943.

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. […]

National Fire Service mobile kitchen presented by the Canadian Red Cross Society and in use in Grimsby in 1942.

Ten Land Army ladies sitting on a fence.

WW2 Women’s Land Army breeches, corduroy 1945.

WW2 ARP badge from Normanby Park Steel Works; John Lysaght Ltd..

WW2 Lincolnshire County Division / 212th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) ‘Tulip’ badges.

NFS funeral; Beacon Avenue, Cleethorpes 1944.

A horn from a standard WW2 British sea mine.

VE Day (or VJ Day) celebrations: 60 Lestrange Street, Cleethorpes 1945.

Unveiling and Dedication of a Memorial Stone to 625 Squadron, RAF Kelstern 1964: order of proceedings.

RAF Kelstern: veterans pay tribute to colleagues from No. 625 Lancaster Squadron who did not return 1956.

MFV 722 (Motor Fishing Vessel) at Grimsby during WW2.

A cover sent from Knockaloe P.O.W. Camp, Isle of Man to Grimsby 1916.

Grimsby Post Office Home Guard Battalion WW2.