Historic Figures
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Violet Farebrother, actress c1950s.

Levi Stephenson; coxswain of the first lifeboat at Cleethorpes 1868-1882.

Charles Chapman, cattle oil manufacturer, town councillor and guardian of poor, Grimsby c1880s.

A 1905 ‘Men of Mark’ print; Henry Kelly Sr (1844-1909).

A 1905 ‘Men of Mark’ print; George Moody (1859-1939).

The grave of Dame Eugenia Doughty O.B.E. (1874-1934), wife of Sir George Doughty (1854-1914), at Scartho Road Cemetery.

Grimsby’s ‘Fighting Fisherman’; Jerry Thompson (1888-1969) by Harry Shaw c1905.

Wilfred Pickles Signing Autographs in Grimsby c1956.

Brenda Fisher (1927-2022).

James Kirkby Riggall (1828-1898), grocer, of Grimsby; a portrait by E. T. Jenkins 1887 (YMCA interest).

Walter Scott; Grimsby Town Penalty King 1909.

Studio portrait of George Skelton Stephenson J.P., M.D., M.B., C.M., physician and surgeon 1891.

Royal visit to Grimsby in 1958; The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are driven along Victoria Street.

John and Harriet Salsbury c1930.

William Audas; the Grimsby photographer with a famous granddson (Group Captain William Arthur John Satchell DSO).

Henri Josse; a naturalised Frenchman becomes MP for Great Grimsby 1892.

Thomas George Tickler (1852-1938) J.P. (of jam fame) c1910.

A cane presented to Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet MP at Grimsby 1879.

Grimsby Town F.C.; 1907-1908 season.

A ‘prudence’ of Grimsby area vicars c1891.

Tom Wing; Grimsby M.P. in 1910.

Sir George and Lady Doughty 1910.

Sir George Doughty, M.P. at his home, Waltham Hall c1910.

George Tweedy, Grimsby Town goalkeeper c1939.


