Ephemera

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Receipt from George Frederick Sleight, Fish Merchant, Grimsby — 1934

Opening of the West Marsh Paper Mills, Grimsby - 1906

The Cleethorpes Promenade Pier Act, 1867.

Walwyn T. Chapman, Terra Cotta Works, Cleethorpes 1913.

Grimsby College dance flyer; Mott the Hoople, Cleethorpes Winter Gardens 1970.

A cover addressed to Miss K. Hargrave, Broxholme Lincoln (with Waltham connections)1882.

Fisherlads’ Institute postcard; notice of a special, fast, excursion train to London 1901.

Grimsby’s Freddie Frinton performs “Dinner for One” at Bournemouth 1959.

Huge ‘Great Grimsby Coal, Salt & Tanning Co. Ltd.’ parcel label addressed to Canada 1933.

Page from the County Borough of Grimsby Year Book 1898

Parcel Post label; Grimsby East Marsh (GEM) 1901.

Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes programmes 1953.

Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes programme 1960.

Empire Theatre, Cleethorpes programme 1950.

Grimsby’s Violet Farebrother appears at the Theatre Royal, Brighton 1932.

South Georgia (formerly a Falkland Islands Dependency) to Grimsby cover 1976; RRS ‘Bransfield’ cachet

Roger Philip Basil Wells (1916-1993) was an architect based in Grimsby. He was born in Grimsby and died in Grimsby. Roger Wells was a well-known collector of rare stamps and covers from all over the world. RRS ‘Bransfield’ was an ice-strengthened cargo vessel, purpose-built for the British Antarctic Survey. She was built by Robb Caledon […]