Grimsby omnibus with advertising; a photo taken at the junction of Bargate and Welholme Road c1907+.

An original, unposted photographic postcard. Photographer/publisher unknown.

Arthur James Browning (1867-1949) was a dentist of 12 Hainton Avenue. He was born in Thornton Curtis and married Caroline Jane “Carrie” Youngs (1869-1921) in Grimsby in 1889 and Alice Irene Booth (1889-1970) in Grimsby in 1922. Arthur James Browning lived at 234 Hainton Street (1901) and in Abbey Park Road (1910) and ‘Ben Rhydding’, Park Drive, Grimsby (1911 & 1921) and ‘Ardath’ Welholme Avenue (1923 & 1924) and ‘South Bank’ Cumberland Avenue (1927) and somewhere in Healing (1928 & 1930) and 129 Weelsby Road (1931 & 1949).

1890 – John Henry Turner, milliner, draper etc., Market Pace, Grimsby. 1910 – Turner’s, drapers and milliners, Old Market Place, Grimsby. 1922 – Turner’s, drapers and milliners, Old Market Place, Grimsby. 1926 – Turner’s (A. E. Roberts, proprietor), drapers, Old Market Place, Grimsby. 1933 – Turner’s (Drapers) Ltd., drapers, Old Market Place, Grimsby.

Tracey Townsend at North East Lincolnshire Archives kindly contacted Richard Brooks who has kindly provided this very interesting, excellent information about the omnibus:

EE 117 was a Dennis 40hp chassis with an open-top body with a rear entrance by E H Hora. It had 18 over 16 seats and was new in June 1906 to the Mail Motor Company which operated a service from Grimsby to Caistor and maybe other places. 9:41 AMshareholders decided to wind up the company on the 31st May 1907.

The Provincial Tramways Company acquired four of the five vehicles of the Mail Motor Company in 1907 from the liquidator including EE117 and gave it the number 3 but it may also have carried the number 4 at some time. That vehicle was withdrawn by 1918 and may have been transferred to the service fleet at some time until 1918.

The registration EE117 was re-used for an Austin 35hp lorry, painted dark grey, sold to C Kendal & Co Ltd, of Church Street, Grimsby, 12/4 1918.

The above information comes from ‘Provincial in Grimsby’ (Provincial paper No 14) by Brett, Stewart; Richardsen, Christopher and Whitaker, David published by the Provincial Society, 2016.

The location is the junction of Bargate and Welholme Road. ‘Bank House’, now the ‘Wheatsheaf’ pub, is in the background. A post supporting overhead wires for the trams can be seen just around the corner in Welholme Road.