ARP nurses by a door on the Nacton Street/Tomline Street corner, Grimsby 1939.

An original 1939 photograph (not a postcard). The photographer is not named.

In the building behind the doorway were the Orwell Street Baths. The Public Baths are advertised on the fence along Orwell Street in the background. The ‘Baths Now Open’ sign above the main door of the baths can just be seen. The wall has painted white stripes to assist drivers during the blackout. A blackout curtain is rolled up above the door. The chalked arrow on the wall is presumably there to guide people to the entrance to the baths around the corner.

The Grimsby-registered (JV 4123) car is parked in Tomline Street.

One of the nurses is named as Delia Dodgson. (It doesn’t say which one.) Does this name mean anything to anyone?

Thanks to Tracey Townsend at the North East Lincolnshire Archives, we now know that Delia Dodgson, married, born 14th July 1909, was staying at Darley’s Hotel in Grimsby Road, Cleethorpes. Does anyone know what happened to her? Where in the country was she from?