Fred Turner’s ‘Central Fish Restaurant’, 37 Market Street, Cleethorpes c1911.

One of our most popular real photographic postcards. The location is the corner of Market street and Cosgrove Street. The building is now occupied by ‘The Market Tavern’. (It was once ‘Schubert’s’, 37-41 Market Street.)

In 1910, the occupier of the building was George Stephen Clayton, fish fryer. Fred Turner may not have been there for very long. Did he open mainly for the Coronation on 22nd June 1911?

Fred Turner’s restaurant and ‘fresh fish stores’ is decorated for what must be the coronation of King George V in 1911. We assume that it’s Fred outside the shop holding a fish. Fred Turner was a fish merchant on Grimsby docks in 1909. A poster in the picture states that he has his own trawlers.

The postcard was posted from Cleethorpes/Grimsby to Grassmore (Grassmoor), near Chesterfield in August 1913.