Old Market Place, Grimsby by Doncaster Rotophoto c1920.

An original photographic postcard by ‘The Doncaster Rotophoto Company’. The company produced really sharp photographic postcards from 1918 until 1923.

The buildings on the left have all gone. Flottergate Primitive Methodist Church (1880-1970) is in the background. Just before, with the clock, is The Ship Hotel.

The Maypole Dairy Co. Ltd., provision dealers, were at 18 & 19, Old Market Place.

Chambers, the once locally famous delicatessen, is on the right. [11 & 12 Old Market Place; Chambers Stores Ltd., tea and coffee merchants, family grocers and Italian warehousemen.]

Albert Gait, bookseller, stationer, printer and lithographer are to the left of Chambers at 13 Old Market Place. The Globe Inn (Hewitt Bros. Ltd.) and Atkinson Wm. Jas., the “Bon Ton”, hosier and outfitter lead to the junction of Victoria Street and Flottergate.

Goldthorpe & Disney, plumbers and ironmongers, are on the extreme right at 9 & 10 Old Market Place. John H. Hopkins, solicitor, and Charles Henry Walsh, architect, had offices over no. 9.

The postcard was posted in Grimsby on 24th August 1920. The addressee is Mr Hanson 7 Helmton Road, Woodseats, Sheffield. (The house exists today.) The writer is having a pint whilst waiting for a train to go fishing. Mother is going on the Pier for the afternoon. The tide will be well up! They were going to Boston the day after.