Grimsby Fish Docks

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John L. Green, wholesale fish merchant, curer and exporter; a large 1904 advertisement.

One of the last steam trawlers; ‘Courlis’ A.51 sailing from Yarmouth c1958.

‘Gone Fishing’; Findus Frozen Foods promotional, 7″, vinyl single with letter 1972.

‘Arsenal’ GY.48 and ‘Ross Leopard’ c1970.

Fine, old buildings on Grimsby Docks c1905.

‘Ross Revenge’ GY.718 (later the Radio Caroline ship) from Ross House 1970.

Grimsby Fish Market; Croft, Drury etc. c1960s.

Alexander Munroe Gostelow of Boston, Boatbuilder, Photo Collection; building a boat 1 c1920s.

Alexander Munroe Gostelow of Boston, Boatbuilder, Photo Collection; ‘Perseverance’ H.126 c1920s.

Alexander Munroe Gostelow of Boston, Boatbuilder, Photo Collection; boiling shrimp on ‘Perseverance’ H.126 c1920s

From a small collection of Gostelow of Boston negatives/prints. The shrimper ‘Perseverance’ was built by Gostelows in c1914. ‘Perseverance’ was registered at H.126 in the 1920s and worked on the River Humber. ‘Perseverance’ GY.411 is now a star exhibit inside Grimsby’s Fishing Heritage Centre.

‘Ross Renown’ GY.666; the last Grimsby trawler to leave Iceland 1975.

‘Doonie Braes’ A.66 ex ‘Grasby’ GY.510 c1960.

‘Leonora’ GY.20 ashore at Withernsea 1904.

‘Reef Bank’ GY.619 1965.

Steam trawlers laid-up at Grimsby during the 1901 strike.

Strikers’ families at Grimsby waiting for the distribution of food from London 1901

An original, antique print taken from The Black and White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review was a British illustrated weekly periodical founded in 1891 by Charles Norris Williamson. In 1912 it was incorporated with The Sphere. During the Great Strike at Grimsby in 1901, steam trawlers were laid-up for 13 weeks. Food was sent […]