An Imagined Blue Plaque for Fred Bacon (1874–1966), Founder of Grimsby, Cleethorpes and District YMCA
Grimsby
“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
The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR); receipt for stationery from William Skelton of Grimsby 1848
George Shepherd, Market Place, Grimsby, wholesale & retail grocer, tea dealer & tallow chandler; 1848 billhead
‘The First Locomotive Passing Great Grimsby Church, on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway’ (April 1848)
A collection of many antique Grimsby cheques and letters etc. from 1796
Wm. Whitlamsmith & Son and Guy & Smith, Victoria Street West, Grimsby, c.1910
An elegant, china, ‘Great Central Railway Co. – Grimsby’ dinner plate circa early-1900s
