Grafton House, Cleethorpes c1926.

An original, unused photographic postcard by photographer or publisher J. Wilson Watkin of Grimsby. The date could be 1936 – requires checking.

Grafton House was Grafton College, an education establishment for young ladies.

During WW1 (1916-1918), many buildings in Cleethorpes were taken over by The 3rd Battalion Manchester Regiment. Grafton College became the headquarters of the Machine Gunnery School.

The buildings still still exist today but are barely recognisable. The additional floor was added after WW1. William Campbell, moulder, lived here in the 1920s.

The postcard was posted from Cleethorpes on 19th August 19?6 by L&W (?) Lowcock c/o Grafton House, 71 Kingsway. The recipient was Mrs Beighton, 9 Wheatcroft Road, Rawmarsh, Rotherham. (The house is still there today.) The message says, “Just a line on a card to say Will is going on fine now, altho’ he is all the colours of the rainbow down one side”.