An original portrait by British Camera Craft (B.c.c.) Studios of 121 Cleethorpe Road. The photo was taken on 23rd December 1940. The name of the policeman is unknown.
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
Portrait of a wartime policeman by B.c.c. Studios, Grimsby 1940 (detail)
‘Madge’; a 1938 portrait by Bc.c. Studios, Grimsby
WW2 Nursing Auxiliary nurse, Grimsby 1944
1937 portrait of a known couple by Bcc Studios of Grimsby
A wartime, painted photograph of a small Grimsby boy by Sid Burton 1941
Portrait of a Grimsby postman by Eustace and Walker pre-1914
