Woodthorpe & Haddock, Coach Builders, Victor Street, Grimsby c1890s.

A large photographic print mounted on card. Although the print is decades old, this is not the original photograph.

Woodthorpe & Haddock of Victor Street appear to have been advertising for craftsmen from 1892. We have an 1894 advertisement for ‘Woodthorpe & Haddock’ on our ‘The Albert Gait Collection’ page. In 1910, they were located at 58, Victor Street. (Charles Burton, coach builder, was at this location in 1890.) The company became insolvent and was wound up in 1914.

In 1892, Woodthorpe & Haddock made a first-class chocolate and black van for transporting prisoners from the Lock-up to the Town Hall.

Fred Morris Woodthorpe was born in Skirbeck, Boston in 1867. He was a cousin of the Grimsby chemist and dentist John B. Gooseman. He lived in Brereton Avenue, Cleethorpes with the Gooseman family. He died in Boston in 1923. Tom William Haddock was born in 1858, again in Boston. His wife was born in Gedney Marsh. Thier 4 children were born in Grimsby and the family lived in Park Street, Cleethorpes. Tom William Haddock died in 1936. He was then living at 110A, Scartho Road, Grimsby. That was the address of the workhouse.