Main Road, Beelsby c1912.
An original, posted photographic postcard by ‘JAY EM JAY’ SERIES GY. (Jackson & Son, Publishers, Grimsby). The photographer’s car, LK-4162, appears in many of this particular series of local, high quality postcards.
On the right is the village shop. The name above the door is Joseph Ormond, grocer. The other signs are for ‘Atkin’s ?’ and ‘Coleman’s Mustard’. Joseph Ormond was also the village blacksmith. The smithy is on the far right.
Joseph Ormond was born in Cuxwold in 1869. He became a blacksmith in Grimsby. On Christmas Day in 1899, he married Elizabeth Ann Smith of Hatcliffe, born Laceby on 29th December 1879. Kelly’s 1913 Directory lists Joseph Ormond as ‘Grocer & Blacksmith’ for Beelsby. Joseph died in Caistor in 1925, aged 56. Elizabeth Ann Ormond died in Hatcliffe on 27th March 1962, aged 83. (She was a grocer in Beelsby Street, Laceby in 1939.)
This postcard was sent by Jim of Croxby Bottom Farm, Hatcliffe from Waltham on 1st September 1914. The recipient was Miss Lou Scott of 115 Corporation Road, Grimsby. The message reads, “Dear Lou. Arrived Safe. We were very busy Mon night unpacking. Hope things are all right at home. I shall soon be going for a row on the Pond. wish you were here. Love from Jim”.
Lou (Lucy) Scott, born in Grimsby on 17th August 1891, was the daughter of King Scott (born Mablethorpe) and Lucy Scott (born Saleby). Jim must have been her brother, James Martin Scott, born in Grimsby in c1896. The family were living at 6 Yarborough Street, Grimsby in 1911. The family move to 117 Corporation Road in 1913 and then next door to 115 Corporation Road by 1914. Some of the family were still at the same address in 1929.
Lou (Lucy) Scott was a tailor’s sowing machinist. Lucy never married. She lived at 64 Arthur Street until her death on 24th January 1978, aged 86. Her sister, Agnes Green, died in 1968, aged 80.
James Martin Scott survived WW1, as did his two brothers, and became a cabinet maker. He was still living at 115 Corporation Road, Grimsby in 1919 together with brothers John and Edward. Their parents had moved to 64 Arthur Street. King died in 1934. Wife, Lucy, died in 1929.
