Wartime
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WW2 Lincolnshire Home Guard; ‘Lincoln imp’ cloth shoulder patches (worn and unworn).
Pingley P.O.W. Camp, Brigg; a letter home from prisoner Otto Weitendorf 1946.
Grimsby (Scartho Road) Cemetery; the grave of John Eid, Norwegian sailor (1907-1942).
Commonwealth War Graves Commission – Grimsby (Scartho Road) Cemetery.
German war graves at Scartho Road Cemetery.
Cover of a WW1 Field Post Office letter to Joseph Ogle of Atlas Saw Mills, Victoria Street, Grimsby Christmas 1916.
‘Ghost’ outlines of a WW2 Italian POW camp at Weelsby Woods revealed by drought.
HMS ‘Borealis’ at Grimsby; H M Mine-clearance Service 1919.
World War II era; concert party (men dressed as women).
WW1 Humber Forts at low tide 2022.
A WW2 identity bracelet which belonged to Rose Eskriett of Grimsby.
Wartime chocolate; Fry’s Chocolate Sandwich c1941.
A war savings campaign ‘Wings for Victory’ plaque 1943.
The Click’em Inn, near Swinhope; WW2 interest.
The 25th Anniversary of the English Electric Lightning, Binbrook 1979.
Grimsby A.R.P. on exercise WW2.
WW2 era Christmas and New Year card from RAF Manby.
Landing Party from HMS Illustrious at Scartho Hall 1915.
Site of the former RAF Grimsby 2021.
HMS ‘Grimsby’ c1938.
HMS ‘Grimsby’ at Malta 1935.
Lily King’s wartime identity bracelet c1939.
WW2 Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) badge 1938-1941.
A Christmas card sent from Ruhleben internment camp to Grimsby in 1916.
