November 21, 2013, 11:30 pm
RECENTLY we published a photograph of a shop named Taylor's and asked if readers knew of its location.Ray Douglas thinks he may have come up with the answer. He told us: "After scrutinising the photograph very carefully, I am sure the location is the corner of Alexandra Road and South Parade."The address is 57 Alexandra Road and is now the location of the Samaritans. I am sure of this because my family moved there in the early 1940s."My father, Mr EE Douglas, was a cobbler and...
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November 22, 2013, 11:30 pm
ARE you a former newsboy from Spencer's in Farebrother Street, Grimsby? If you are, and you played for the five-a-side soccer team, then Michael McArthur would like to get in touch with you.Michael is trying to contact Ian Blakey, Gary Kelly, Michael Friskney and Kevin Mayall.If you are one of these lads, or you know where they are, then please call Michael on 01472 328162.
![Former newsboys are in the news!]( "Former newsboys are in the news!")
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November 22, 2013, 11:30 pm
THIS painting is by John A Walker and is entitled 'Arrival at Thornton Abbey Gatehouse'.John told us: "In the 1950s as a teenager living in Grimsby, a friend and I sometimes cycled to Thornton Abbey for a day's outing in the countryside."
![The Abbey painting habit]( "The Abbey painting habit")
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November 22, 2013, 11:30 pm
A REPORT in 1900 stated that insanity in Grimsby was on the increase.Seventy-two males and 62 females from the town were in Bracebridge Asylum; from the whole of Lincolnshire there were only 735.
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November 24, 2013, 11:30 pm
PRIZE WINNER: THIS wonderful contraption bears a label declaring First Prize. It was made for the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in 1911. Just what the competition entailed we don't know but the "bikeboat" certainly has plenty of patriotic flair about it. We believe the man – who we assume built the machine – could have been Mr H Wilford from Goxhill. Of course if you know more about it please drop us a line to Bygones, Grimsby Telegraph, 80 Cleethorpe Road,...
![Patriotic pedal power!]( "Patriotic pedal power!")
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November 24, 2013, 11:30 pm
This article, which was published in the Grimsby Telegraph in June 1985, was written by Ken Mingay, archivist to the Great Grimsby Guild of Freemen.THE origin of the Corporation Grammar School, or Free School, as it was also known is lost in antiquity.It was certainly in existence in 1241 when Hailmer was appointed rector of the school in Grimsby and until 1863 it occupied the same site in Chantry Lane.In 1547 the Mayor and Burgesses (in other words the Freemen) were granted permission by King...
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November 24, 2013, 11:30 pm
THE Sound of Music may have been packing them in at the cinema in 1966, but at the Tudor Cafe in Grimsby's Old Market Place it was upsetting the Performing Rights Society.Since 1914 customers had been able to eat their roast beef and assorted veg or steak and kidney pudding to the strains of a trio playing from a small elevated platform on the right hand side as you went in.It was a delightful place. Excellent food, pleasant atmosphere and the music made it all the better.But then along came the...
![When they silenced the sound of music]( "When they silenced the sound of music")
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November 24, 2013, 11:30 pm
SCHOOLS featured this week are Caistor Yarborough and Caistor Grammar.If you're a former pupil then maybe you'll be pictured here, and if you can put names to any of the faces then please let us know.You can send your letters to Bygones, Grimsby Telegraph, 80 Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire DN31 3EH or you can e-mail bygones@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk
![Caistor school pupils in the picture]( "Caistor school pupils in the picture")
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November 24, 2013, 11:30 pm
WE'VE hit the bullseye this week with local darts the subject of our sports pages. If you've played darts over the years then maybe you'll be featured here.And if you can put names to the faces of anyone pictured then please let us know.And If you have photographs of your own that you'd like to share with Bygones readers, then we'd love to see them.The address is Bygones, Grimsby Telegraph, 80 Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire DN31 3EH or you can e-mail...
![Local players step up to the oche]( "Local players step up to the oche")
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November 24, 2013, 11:30 pm
IT WAS, I believe, the mid-1970s when I was a member of the Lincolnshire Land Yacht Club, writes Mike Stewart, of Great Coates.We "sailed" mostly at Holton-le-Clay airfield. It was quite thrilling speeding along at 40 or 50mph, depending of course on the wind speed or direction, with your backside no more than six inches off the ground.There were no brakes of course, stopping was achieved by turning the yacht into the wind and hoping you did not run out of runway.We also sailed at...
![Not all plain sailing in yachting]( "Not all plain sailing in yachting")
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November 25, 2013, 11:30 pm
THIS selection of photographs was shown to us by Ray Stewart, of Keelby, and relate to his late father, Austin Joseph Stewart.Ray said: "This is a brief description of my late father's RAF history, which may be of interest to old soldiers/airmen from the 1927-32 and later 1942-45 era, which covered his time in the Sudan and the north west frontier of India, where he was stationed for five years at a base called Kohat."He was in 60 Squadron, flying as an air gunner/observer in old...
![Very proud of his father's medals]( "Very proud of his father's medals")
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November 26, 2013, 11:30 pm
SUE Brown, who lives in Nottingham, sent us this lovely photograph which was taken at Cleethorpes in the 1950s or 60s.Sue told us: "The picture shows my mum, Olive Simpson, and her sisters, Irene and Sylvia. My mum is on the right."I think the photograph is wonderful, they really do look glamorous."Sadly, my mum and Irene have now passed away. There was another elder sister named Esther but she has also passed away now. I believe she was ill when this photograph was taken so she...
![Fun times at the seaside]( "Fun times at the seaside")
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November 27, 2013, 11:30 pm
OH WHAT A PANDEMONIUM!: Pupils of Crosby Middle School, Grimsby, in a right rip-roaring mood after their school play "A Summer Pandemonium" held at the school for parents and friends in May 1990.
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November 27, 2013, 11:30 pm
WENDY Turner got in touch after we published this photograph of the Coronation Capers, a West Marsh song and dance troupe who raised money for Grimsby Hospital.Wendy said: "I was really surprised to see three of my cousins on the photograph. Their names are Jean, Rita and Rhoda Page."I know Rhoda is sadly no longer with us, but I would love to know about the rest of the family. Their mother was my mum's sister, Gladys Turner, and aunt Mena had quite a few children."If you are one...
![Cousins in the Capers]( "Cousins in the Capers")
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November 28, 2013, 11:30 pm
By the Summer of 1941 the inhabitants of the West Marsh were getting used to visits by the German Luftwaffe bombers at night, writes Jeff Beedham.Many of the younger schoolchildren had been evacuated to the countryside, but one family from Ayscough Street locked up their house and moved away from the town, only returning after the hostilities ended.My mother, Joyce Dean and her family had moved next door to No 149 Ayscough Street on the day war was declared.Their new house was identical but...
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November 28, 2013, 11:30 pm
QUAINT COTTAGE: A thatched cottage in Waithe Lane at Brigsley. When this photograph was taken, on a wintry day in the mid-1960s, it was the home of Mrs Seaton.
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November 29, 2013, 11:30 pm
CHAMPIONS: The Yarborough Junior School netball team who won the Junior Netball League trophy in July 1994 after a weekly competition at the Grimsby Leisure Centre. They are pictured with their teacher/coach, Marlene Allman. They are, back row from left, Kelly Hewson, Elly Beecham, Hayley Hutson, Kirsty Francom and Helena Wilks; front row, Clare Stewart, Hayley Francis, Elizabeth Heywood, Laura Fenty and Tanya Tomlinson.
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November 29, 2013, 11:30 pm
RECENTLY we published an appeal by Paul Gander, who asked if readers could remember when Chambers in Grimsby's Old Market Place was a Berni Inn.Pauline Allen certainly could. She said: "If my memory serves me right, I do believe it was one of the first restaurants where you could actually see your steak being cooked."Their coffee was served in a glass with frothy cream on top. I have never tasted a coffee like it – delicious."This was in the early 1970s. It was a very...
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November 29, 2013, 11:30 pm
CALLING all school girls and boys who attended Grimsby Technical or Heneage Comprehensive school which shut its doors for the last time 40 years ago.Former pupils of the now derelict Eleanor Street site have organised a reunion for all years to attend on Friday, December 6, at the Linden Homes Club, in Clee Road, from 7pm.Organisers are in particular asking teachers Mike Edwards, Rod Fletcher, Dave Foulkes, Mike Peucock and Brian Rowe to join the gathering.Gill Atkinson (nee Hollberg) left the...
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December 2, 2013, 11:30 pm
BRIAN Currie got in touch after we published this photograph of Class 4A of Welholme School in Bygones recently.Brian, who is often known as "Jock", said: "A friend sent me a copy of the photograph, which was taken 60 years ago."Obviously this brought back a lot of memories and seeing the names of the people that I was in class with was really quite amazing."I have lived in Australia since 1966 and I am now an Australian citizen. I thought it worthwhile doing a very...
![Where are they now?]( "Where are they now?")
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