A ceramic, ‘Great Central Railway Co. – Grimsby’ dinner plate circa early-1900s.

A simple, heavy, ceramic dinner plate measuring 9″ in diameter. The plate was made by W. T. Copeland & Sons of Stoke-on-Trent. It has a blue potter’s mark on the underside.

The Great Central Railway was the name given to Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1897. In the 1923 grouping, it was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).