Old Market Place, Grimsby by A. R. Watmough, stationer c1910.

From an original, posted postcard by Alfred Reginald Watmough of Grimsby, stationer.

Alfred Reginald Watmough (1884-1940) was the son of Charles Watmough and Elizabeth Watmough, née Bulgin. Charles was a ship store dealer living in Chantry Lane. By 1910, Alfred Reginald Watmough was a stationer at 37 Victoria Street. (In today’s gap between Barclays Bank and TSB Bank?)

Alfred Reginald Watmough was in the Royal Army Service Corps during WW1. He married Kate Nutchey in Grimsby in 1915. Kate’s father was a wholsale provision merchant in Albion Street. Alfred left the army in 1919 and moved to Otley, Yorkshire where Kate was living. Their son was born in Otley in 1916. By 1921, Alfred was back in Grimsby and living at 48 Wellowgate. He was a representative for his father-in-law’s company in Albion Street.

In 1939, Alfred Reginald Watmough was living in Mablethorpe and Sutton and was a caterer. He died on the 7th January 1940. He was then a restaurant proprietor living at ‘Alberta’, Binbrook. He is buried in Scartho Road Cemetery, Grimsby. Kate married John Ashcroft Webster in Cleethorpes soon after the death of Alfred.

Alfred Reginald Watmough’s father, Charles Watmough, set up the Neptune Steam Biscuit Manufactory which became part of the family biscuit making enterprise and eventually led to the building of the massive biscuit factory at Great Coates.

The postcard was posted (date unreadable) to Mrs W. R. Machin, “Waverley”, Victoria Road, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent. The postcard was once in the Bill Hopkins Collection, Notting Hill Gate, London and the London Postcard Centre, 21 Kensington Park Road.