Grimsby Bygones

West Marsh folk at rest and play

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

WERE you, or are you still, a resident of the West Marsh area of Grimsby?

If so, you may well recognise yourself or someone you know on one of these photographs, which were sent in by Sandra O'Hare, of Salamander Close, Grimsby.

Sandra's nana, Madge Wells,...

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Little change over time

Monday, November 17, 2008

THE subject of this week's Then and Now feature is Grimsby Town Hall. The photographs, which were taken from East Street, show how the only...

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Training nurses reunited

Back together (back row, from left): Judy Maxwell (nee Cox), Mary Kershaw, Dora Lofthouse (nee Richardson), Gillian Pearce (nee Lancaster) and Susan Croft (nee Vamplew); front: Vera Dobbs (nee Newman), Valerie Eyre (nee Shortland), June Maplethorpe (nee Burnett) and Doreen Hughes (nee Lewis).

Saturday, November 15, 2008

BACK in June, we published an appeal for nurses who attended Preliminary Training School at Scartho Road Hospital in September 1958. A reunion...

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Looking back at town

Landing the catch on Grimsby Fish Docks.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

CONTINUING our look back through the Roy Sharkey postcard collection. Don't forget you can view the Sharkey postcards online at www.thisisgrim...

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Oh, happy days!

Girls of the Waltham Toll Bar School hockey team of 1961. They are: Jennifer Todd, Lesley Broom, Wendy Marshall, Angela Cotton, Wendy Sharp, Lesley Moody, Jean Forsit, Kathleen Brown, Georgina Robinson, Sandra Harness and Carol Sands. The teacher is Miss Blyth.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

IT'S smiles all round on these two photographs, that were sent in by Mrs Marshall, of Wordsworth Court, Grimsby. Girls of the Waltham Toll Bar...

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Fond memories of Cordage Co

Thursday, November 13, 2008

VIVIAN George sent us an email after seeing some familiar faces on a Grimsby Cordage Company photograph. She told us: "I was born in...

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Children of Ravenspurn

Thursday, November 13, 2008

THIS picture was sent in by Lilly Wenham (nee Fox). She told us: "The photograph was taken in 1933 and shows children of Ravenspurn Street,...

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Trip back in time - view on video now

Thursday, November 13, 2008

TAKE a stroll along Memory Lane... or rather, Grimsby's Riby Square, as it was in days gone by.We've been given fantastic footage of the...

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Puzzling photos

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

THESE two photographs were sent in by JEANNE Cook, of Bradley Road, Waltham. If you can tell us more about them, or put names to the faces,...

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May Day scene spurs memories

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

AFTER we published a May Day photograph from Edward Street School, Sheila Staniforth (nee Osborne) got in touch after spotting herself on the...

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