The Maternity Home, Cleethorpes (later the Croft Baker Maternity Home) c1930.

An original photographic postcard printed on the same photographic paper on a roll used by the well-known Cleethorpes photographer, J. W. Hardy. It’s likely, therefore, that he was the photographer. Unposted.

William Grant O.B.E. (1853-1926), steam trawler owner, lived at ‘The Mount’, Mill Road, Cleethorpes from c1905 until 1926. Henry Croft Baker J.P. (1864-1928), steam trawler owner, lived next door at ‘The Rookery’.

Henry Croft Baker married Ada Grant (1871-1962) in 1890. Ada was the daughter of John Grant, fisherman.

Ada Croft Baker was left a wealthy woman. In 1929 she bought ‘The Mount’, next door, and gave it to the council with instructions that it had to be opened as a maternity home. The maternity home was renamed ‘Croft Baker Maternity Home’ in the 1960s. It closed in early 1980s and services were transferred to Grimsby’s Maternity Home, Nunsthorpe.

‘The Mount’ has now been converted into apartments.

Note: Anyone born at Croft Baker, or in that area of Cleethorpes, is a ‘Meggie’.