Knoll Crescent House, Cliffe Terrace, Cleethorpes – 5 September 1905

An original photographic postcard showing Knoll Crescent House, Cliffe Terrace, Cleethorpes, the home of John Barker, horse and carriage proprietor. A contemporary street directory lists Barker at this address under Cliffe Terrace, alongside Richard Kemp, gardener and lodging-house keeper, at Knoll Crescent, and Edward Smith, wine merchant, at Knoll House.

The house survives today as the left-hand half of The Tale of Two, Alexandra Road, Cleethorpes.

The photograph is dated 5 September 1905. No photographer or publisher is named.

The original postcard is held in the Grimsby & Cleethorpes Museum collection. It was posted from Cleethorpes by Edith on 6 September 1906, addressed to Mrs Harry Codd, Nettleton Road, Caistor, Lincolnshire.

The message on the reverse reads:

"Dear Auntie, I was pleased to hear that you had been to Keelby though it's sometime since. I went home on Saturday for Kay sent word father was much worse. X Grandmother is very poorly. Hoping you are both well. Best wishes from Edith."