Thomas George Talbot, ice-cream seller, and a hungry dog c1928.

An original photograph by Stanley J. Warren, photographer, of Grimsby. A very prolific and excellent photographer. It’s unusual to see a Warren photograph marked with an embosser. He normally marks his photographs with a white ‘SJW’. Stanley J. Warren came to Grimsby in 1926 or 1927 and was working as a photographer until the 1950s.

Thomas George Talbot was an ice-cream seller living at 64 Freshney Street, Grimsby. The houses in the background may have been in Freshney Street which was close to the River Freshney. All the houses in this street have been demolished and the street has been renamed Freshney Drive. There are some similarities between the houses shown and the houses still existing in the next street, Jackson Street.

Thomas George Talbot was born in Geddington, Northamptonshire in 1876. He married (Elsie) Kate Lily Sneath of Wellingborough in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire in 1898. Their first child, Evelyn J., was born in Kettering in 1903. Their other children, Ruby Vesta (1907), Dorothy Vera (1909) and William T. C. (1910) were born in Grimsby. The family were living at 64 Freshney Street in 1911. Thomas was a pastry cook and confectioner. In 1921, Thomas was a baker and confectioner working for G. Schwind, pork butcher, grocer, baker and confectioner of 30 Oxford Street, Grimsby.

Thomas George Talbot, ice-cream seller died in May 1931, aged 54. Elsie Kate Lily Talbot died in 1967, aged 93. The couple are buried in Scartho Road Cemetery.

Note: William T. C. Talbot married Gladys M. Proudley in Grimsby in 1937. He died in Grimsby in 1993 and she died in Grimsby in 2000. William ‘Tom’ was a grocer and general shopkeeper in Kent Street in 1939.

Research by Grimsby & Cleethorpes Museum.