Wartime
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National Fire Service mobile kitchen presented by the Canadian Red Cross Society and in use in Grimsby in 1942.
A 9t gold tag from a wartime ID bracelet. The bracelet is missing. Olive’s E.D. Letter Code / Schedule No. on the 1939 Register is TKAM 309/2, as shown on the reverse of the tag. Olive Wilkes was born in Grimsby in 1894. She was the daughter of Thomas Henry Wilkes, sawyer, and Amelia Wilkes. […]
(William) Usher Banks, Cranwell Lodge (now RAF Cranwell) c1910.
Cold War; Gloster Meteor F.8, WF654 at RAF Binbrook 1969.
A tool provided with every Anderson air raid shelter. The shelters were self-assembled in the garden. The ‘rat tail’ handle went through the holes in the galvanised, corrugated, 14 gauge steel sheets to align them ready for the bolts to go through. After construction, the ‘rat tail’ spanner was kept inside the shelter to be […]
Kanonenboot HMS ‘Grimsby’ 1933.
Luftwaffe target map; one Grimsby building highlighted 1940.
A set of four Marks & Spencer ARP warden badges c1939.
A military funeral procession at Grimsby (looking from Freeman Street Market) c1914.
10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment “Grimsby Chums” at Brocklesby Camp c1914.
Grimsby Chums Battalion marching along Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby 1914.
Robert Ernest Stafford of Grimsby; WW1 memorial plaque issued to next-of-kin 1917.
A wartime, painted photograph of a small Grimsby boy by Sid Burton 1941.
A pair of local WW2 National Fire Service helmets.
Key to a March 1943 plan of RAF Grimsby.
ARP nurses by a door on the Nacton Street/Tomline Street corner, Grimsby 1939.
RAF Kelstern 625 Squadron WW2 period bullion badge “We Avenge”.
Air-dropped German propaganda leaflet 1941.
The Midnight Watch – July 1943; a large number of anti-personnel bombs were dropped on “an East Coast town”.
An Arcadian crested china figurine of ‘Tommy and his Machine Gun’ Rd. No. 657214 bearing the crest of Grimsby.
Grimsby and Cleethorpes Volunteer Training Corps inspection at People’s Park, March 14th 1915.
A photo taken on 9th March 2023. The three wonderful paintings painted by Italian P.O.W.s can be seen on Thursdays when the Pavilion is open for ‘Community Coffee Mornings and Light Refreshments’ 11:00am-3:00pm.
Bowling Green Pavilion, Barretts Recreation Ground, Grimsby; Italian P.O.W. painting 2.
Bowling Green Pavilion, Barretts Recreation Ground, Grimsby; Italian P.O.W. painting 1.
