Wartime
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Grimsby and District Football League War Memorial Plaque
On Freedom's Wings – Bomber County Gateway, Norton Disney
VE Day Street Party, Cleethorpes – May 1945
Digging for Victory – Wartime Back Garden, c.1942–1945
WW2 Royal Air Force Group Portrait with Twin-Engined Aircraft.
Grimsby “Chums” Camp, Brocklesby, 1914.
Tail Fin Assembly from a German B1E 1kg Elektron Incendiary Bomb – picked up after a raid by a boy in Hull.
Erich Kloska, POW, Kirmington Camp 1947.
WW2 soldiers marching along Ainslie Street by S. J. Warren.
Women’s Land Army; Timber Corps official badge.
WW2 Ministry of Food ‘Pure Dried Eggs’ tin.
Grimsby 1914-1918 brass War Savings Committee plaque (possibly from the WW1 tank in People’s Park).
Grimsby Post Office Home Guard Battalion WW2.
A cover sent from Knockaloe P.O.W. Camp, Isle of Man to Grimsby 1916.
MFV 722 (Motor Fishing Vessel) at Grimsby during WW2.
RAF Kelstern: veterans pay tribute to colleagues from No. 625 Lancaster Squadron who did not return 1956.
Unveiling and Dedication of a Memorial Stone to 625 Squadron, RAF Kelstern 1964: order of proceedings.
VE Day (or VJ Day) celebrations: 60 Lestrange Street, Cleethorpes 1945.
A horn from a standard WW2 British sea mine.
NFS funeral; Beacon Avenue, Cleethorpes 1944.
WW2 Lincolnshire County Division / 212th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) ‘Tulip’ badges.
WW2 ARP badge from Normanby Park Steel Works; John Lysaght Ltd..
WW2 Women’s Land Army breeches, corduroy 1945.
Ten Land Army ladies sitting on a fence.
