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George Shepherd, Market Place, Grimsby, wholesale & retail grocer, tea dealer & tallow chandler; 1848 billhead.
Theatre Royal poster, Grimsby 1891; The ‘Royal Thompson Trio’ were top of the bill.
Robert Keetley, ship & boat builder, Grimsby billhead; the cost of an oak tree Midsummer 1848.
Smith & Young, ironmongers, Grimsby; receipt for gas pendant etc. bought by the MS&LR 1847.
A collection of many antique Grimsby cheques and letters etc. from 1796.
Memoranda from John H. White, Emigration Offices, Laceby 1881; of local history and international history interest.
Grimsby illustrated billhead; Thomas W. Swaby, general and fancy dealer, of The Warehouse, Freeman Street Xmas 1903.
Gaumont, Grimsby advertising card; Joan Collins starring in ‘Turn the Key Softly’ 1953.
Large poster advertising the sale of 6 Grimsby houses in 1926.
Scartho Road Bill 1824.
Eggleston & Co., Flottergate, Grimsby; Do your pigs pay? 1894.
Advertisement for J. J. Crompton & Son, boot & shoe dealers, 7 Victoria St., Grimsby 1934.
List of members of Lincs Aero Club, Waltham 1934.
Handbill for Coronation Procession for Queen Victoria in Grimsby, England – 1838.
M. Edwards, Robinson & Co., importers of eggs, Grimsby; a 1904 price list.
Doughty Museum – Catalogue of Ship Models 1964.
From a c1890s Grimsby calendar.
Tickler’s Strawberry Jam advertisement 1928.
Houses of Parliament; a detail from the illuminated Councillor Franklin Thornton manuscript 1921.
Grimsby Cenotaph; a detail from the illuminated Councillor Franklin Thornton manuscript 1921.
Grimsby’s Dock Tower; a detail from the illuminated Councillor Franklin Thornton manuscript 1921.
Grimsby Town Hall; a detail from the illuminated Councillor Franklin Thornton manuscript 1921.
An appreciation of Councillor Franklin Thornton’s year as Mayor of Grimsby and Chief Magistrate 1920/21.
A wartime letter from J. S. Doig (Grimsby) Ltd., shipbuilders 1939.
