The wall of a building in Cleethorpes engraved with names (1930s and 1940s).
A. BEALEY Grimsby. H.O 1942 Jan. 19th To (1950 roughly scratched beneath) AB A BEALEY 1946 H BEALEY 1936 KFP R.F. Other scratchings on the wall go back to the 1920s including ‘L. HEWSON 1920’.
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
A house fire in Mathews Street, Cleethorpes c1939 Photos 3 & 4
A house fire in Mathews Street, Cleethorpes c1939 Photos 1 & 2
Grimsby War Memorial by B. Barnes and Son, Cleethorpes c1920s
New shelters, Kingsway, Cleethorpes c1919
A house fire in Mathews Street, Cleethorpes c1939 Photo 5
ARP nurses by a door on the Nacton Street/Tomline Street corner, Grimsby 1939
