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Bygones

I remember Newby, Hicks and Cook, too

swimming stars:  Staff and prizewinning pupils of the Corporation Grammar School at their annual swimming meeting at Orwell Street Swimming Baths in 1934. Those at the back include K Dixon, Mr Todd, Mr Saunders, headmaster Mr Lister  and C Chidwick (far right); among those in the centre are E Newby, Mr Abraham, B Newby, B Would, Madam Phillips (instructor) and Mrs Cowie (headmistress); Front row (from left): ?, L Fraser, ? and ?

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

AFTER we published this photograph, Alban Harris, of Pennine Close, Immingham, got in touch.

He said: "I was delighted to see, for the first time, my old school, the Corporation Grammar.

"Mr C Chidwick was slightly out with his date of closure.

"I...

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Who is the mystery girl lost in the mists of time?

window to the past:  The latest edition of Bygones is out now.

Monday, March 15, 2010

JUST who is the little girl pictured with a foal on the front cover of the latest Bygones? The charming photograph was taken, we believe, in the...

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Sails of the century

taking a bow:  A young Jeff Beedham poses with his battery-powered RAF Rescue Launch and, right, a sunny day down at Sidney Park, Cleethorpes.

Monday, March 15, 2010

HERE, Jeff Beedham shares his memories of the early development of Cleethorpes and his recollections of Sidney Park. He said: "Towards the end of the...

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Putting Thomas Beedham in the picture

Jane Beedham (nee Kitchen), above, who was born in 1860.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

JEFF Beedham, of Lancaster Avenue, Grimsby, is trying to trace details or photographs of his great-grandfather, Thomas Beedham. Jeff told us: "Thomas...

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Back to the daily grind

LEFT:  How Waltham Windmill looks today.

Friday, March 12, 2010

WALTHAM Windmill is the subject of this week's Then And Now feature. Dave Strickland, who supplied the modern view, said: "Waltham's famous and...

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On cloud nine after meeting Billy Fury

'lovely and friendly':  Billy Fury got his Jaguar stuck on Cleethorpes beach.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

RECENTLY we printed an article on the local music scene by Geoff Lindley. In it he asked if readers could remember the day Billy Fury drove his car on...

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Memories of Waltham revealed

Thursday, March 11, 2010

BOOKWORMS from Waltham who helped compile a history of their picturesque village are celebrating the launch of a book looking back on the past 90...

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Club's happy days down at the clinic

all smiles:   Members of the Parents' Club at Watkin Street Clinic, pictured in 1962. If you can name anyone pictured, then please get in touch.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

VAL Smith, of Westhill Road, Grimsby, sent us this photographs to share with you. Val, who is secretary of the Cromwell Ladies' Group, asks: "Are you...

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All in a day's work

hung by hand:  Haddock ready for smoking in years gone by.

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

RECENT articles on fish curing in Grimsby prompted Tom Willis, of Worsley Road, Immingham, to get in touch. Tom wrote: "In 1938, at the age of 15, I...

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Shanty Town play area was unique

disgrace:  Above, youngsters with teachers from Bradford who visited the Adventure Playground in July 1958. Above right, a Grimsby Telegraph story from October 1956 telling how 56 residents  handed in a petition to Grimsby Corporation, calling it a "scandal and a disgrace".

Monday, March 08, 2010

"GRIMSBY was one of the first towns in 1950s Britain to have an adventure playground. "It was located in Armstrong Street in the West Marsh,...

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