Old Market Place, Grimsby c1910.
From the Gait family album.
Turner’s drapers and milliners is on the left. Albert Gait bookseller, stationer, newsagent, artist’s colourman is in the centre distance.
From the Gait family album.
Turner’s drapers and milliners is on the left. Albert Gait bookseller, stationer, newsagent, artist’s colourman is in the centre distance.

“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

Albert Gait’s shop, Old Market Place, Grimsby 1869

Old Market Place, Grimsby by Doncaster Rotophoto c1920

Old Market Place, Grimsby c1920s

Old Market Place, Grimsby; an artwork based on a 1905 albumen photograph

Old Market Place, Grimsby c1920

Old Market Place, Grimsby; a Valentine postcard registered in 1938