Ruth Ethel Everitt at Eleanor Street College, Grimsby c1919.
A photograph by Topham of 19 Tasburgh Street, Grimsby.
Ruth Ethel Everitt is circled on the photo.
From the I. G. Collection.
A photograph by Topham of 19 Tasburgh Street, Grimsby.
Ruth Ethel Everitt is circled on the photo.
From the I. G. Collection.

An Imagined Blue Plaque for Fred Bacon (1874–1966), Founder of Grimsby, Cleethorpes and District YMCA
Grimsby

“I wrote about this being my grandfather's boat - he was the engineer. It was first registered as INS 11 and is pronounced Pit-gay-vnay not Pit-gav-enny.”
Libby Lamb, 21 October 2026

“My grandfather was the engineer on this drifter when she was fishing out of Lossiemouth and then working as a minesweeper at Scapa Flow from 1915.”
Libby Lamb, 20 October 2026

“Stuart sent me a framed photo of the above photo. He was a dear friend of many years through first knowing his dear wife and lovely son.It is with great saddnessto learn of Stuarts death we emailed regularly ,he was a humble lovely person.I am chronically sick and bedbound ,Stuart's emails were always a pleasure to read and reply to.He was a nan of great integrity and humilityand the world has been better for him being part of itHow lovely ifa BleuePlaque could be erected fir himit is richly deserved.A lovely man who will be n greatly missed”
Cathy James, 19 October 2026

Elsie Everitt, Grimsby c1924

Outside 95 Earl Street, Grimsby in 1929

Portrait of Ethel A. Marshall of 28 Macaulay Street, Grimsby 1904

Unknown Grimsby men by Topham c1920 – colourised

Guy and Smith, drapers and complete furnishing warehousemen, 19/21 Victoria Street Grimsby c1910

A Victorian CdV portrait by Henry Blackburn; possibly of Elizabeth Ann Eskriett c1900