Bloodhound Mk. II SAM missiles and RAF personnel at RAF North Coates c1962.
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
brian stafford12 November 2024
264 Sqdn, the original squadron records state the image was taken in 1959
Cold War; Bloodhound missile at RAF North Coates c1962
Cold War; Gloster Meteor F.8, WF654 at RAF Binbrook 1969
Threshing at Brooks’ Farm, North Cotes Fitties c1910
Cold war era; Lightning crash near Grimsby 1968
WW2 Royal Air Force Group Portrait with Twin-Engined Aircraft
An original piece of a Butterfly Bomb dropped on the boundary of Grimsby and Cleethorpes in June 1943
