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Luftwaffe target map; one Grimsby building highlighted 1940.
An original map. Victoria Flour Mill is highlighted in red. Getreidegroßmühle m. Getreidesilo = large grain mill with grain silo. Maßstab = Scale.
An original map. Victoria Flour Mill is highlighted in red. Getreidegroßmühle m. Getreidesilo = large grain mill with grain silo. Maßstab = Scale.
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
Victoria Flour Mills, Grimsby; building progress 1906
Victoria Flour Mills, Victoria Street, Grimsby 2023
Victoria Flour Mills, Great Grimsby c1921
Key to a March 1943 plan of RAF Grimsby
London & North Eastern Railway – Grimsby Docks map 1940 (detail)
German markings on a wing of a butterfly bomb dropped on Grimsby on 14th June 1943