December 3, 2013, 11:30 pm
MARGARET Wilkinson (nee Dobbs), of Holton-le-Clay, showed us this photograph of Waltham Toll Bar School pupils.Margaret told us: "The picture was taken in the mid-1950s and the headmaster at the time was Mr Kirkby, who had ambitions of pupils at his school being capable of obtaining passes at GCE level."His plan led to teachers being approached, and then certain pupils, with the consent of their parents, being asked to stay for another year and study a limited number of subjects. I...
![Top of the class at Toll Bar]( "Top of the class at Toll Bar")
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December 5, 2013, 11:30 pm
THIS article and photograph were shown to us by Bob Hanley.The first is a photograph that was taken at the Humber Marathon in 1982.Bob took part in the event and even though he did no training he completed the run in about four hours – and even stopped at the pub for a couple of pints en route!The other item is an article that was printed in the Grimsby Telegraph when Bob's father, Bill Hanley, died.Bill was a former fisherman who featured on a mural at the Wine Pipe pub in Freeman...
![Fisherman is in TV advert]( "Fisherman is in TV advert")
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December 6, 2013, 11:30 pm
JEAN Gell (nee Dales), of Odin Court, Scartho Top, got in touch after we published these photographs from Clee Grammar School.Jean said: "I remember it well. I was in the same class as the late Glenda Gibbs (nee Krause), whose husband sent the pictures in."Some of the other girls pictured are Jose Sturman, Wendy Jobling, Sheila Sibbick, Brenda Jackson, Maureen Russell, Miriam Rock and Pauline Key."I see lots of familiar faces, but I can't remember their names."Thanks to Mr...
![Clee Grammar memories]( "Clee Grammar memories")
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December 8, 2013, 11:30 pm
LOCAL cricket teams are the subject for this week's sport section. If you used to play for a local team then maybe you'll spot yourself.And if you can put names to the faces of any of the players then please let us know. The address is Bygones, Grimsby Telegraph, 80 Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire DN31 3EH or you can e-mail bygones@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk
![Cricketers step up to the crease]( "Cricketers step up to the crease")
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December 8, 2013, 11:30 pm
RECENTLY we published this photograph of the Harvest Moon ladies darts team.Now, Anita Kelly, who was the captain of the team, has been touch to put names to the faces for us.Janet Stocks also got in touch to identify Nicola Kent (nee Stocks), Katrina Carrington and Anita Kelly. Our thanks to both of them.
![Ladies named]( "Ladies named")
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December 8, 2013, 11:30 pm
THIS selection of photographs was shown to us by Brenda Emerson (nee Blanchard), of Algernon Street, Grimsby.If you can tell us more about the pictures, or put names to any of the faces, then please let us know.The address is Bygones, Grimsby Telegraph, 80 Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire DN31 3EH or you can e-mail bygones@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk
![Snaps from the family album]( "Snaps from the family album")
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December 8, 2013, 11:30 pm
THIS selection of photographs from three local schools belong to former teacher Enid Miller, of Laceby Road, Grimsby. The schools featured are Grange and Worsley.Some of the Worsley school photographs were taken at a flower festival at the school. Enid told us: "During my time teaching, we held a flower festival each year with a Flower Queen, rather than a May Queen, as it was held in June/July before we broke up."The Queen was chosen by the children in the top class, and each class...
![Fun times at Worsley and Grange]( "Fun times at Worsley and Grange")
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December 8, 2013, 11:30 pm
THERE were echoes of the butterfly bomb raid in 1943 when German PoWs were brought in to assist a bomb disposal unit based at Killingholme to clear Grimsby's old cemetery in Doughty Road.The cemetery had been closed and declared unsafe in 1944, a year after the raid.It was in November 1947 that the bomb disposal men went in with mine detectors and flame throwers to search through the gravestones and undergrowth for th lethal anti-personnel weapons.It was feared that several of the bombs had sunk...
![Clearing up the bombs – and the mines]( "Clearing up the bombs – and the mines")
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December 8, 2013, 11:30 pm
On September 17, 1963, pop star Billy J Kramer appeared at the ABC Cleethorpes. This is how the Telegraph reported the event.DO you want to know a secret? – top Liverpool pop singer, Billy J Kramer, is worried that his fans might be "Bad to me".For the 20-year-old singer, who leapt from obscurity to stardom in two months, is wondering how long his present success can last.In those two months, Billy has made two hit records, one selling more than 300,000 copies and gaining him a...
![Do you want to know a secret?]( "Do you want to know a secret?")
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December 8, 2013, 11:30 pm
GRIMSBY Borough Police had just two police dogs in 1966 – but one of them was judged to be the best in Britain.Tex, a four-year-old Alsatian, won the national police dog trials at Malvern with his handler PC Len Rayner.PC Rayner and Tex had been together for three years, during which time they had established quite a reputation for themselves, not only with the town's criminal element but with the children as well.In addition to being a very efficient and very intelligent police dog, he...
![Police dog was the best in the country]( "Police dog was the best in the country")
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December 8, 2013, 11:30 pm
SKEGNESS may have been bracing but for the Beverley Sisters it turned out to be uncomfortable when they arrived in the town to star at the Arcadia Theatre for a week in August 1966.They rented a house in Winthorpe Avenue for a week but within a couple of days were writing to complain about its condition to the owners.It was so bad, they said, that they were taking all their meals out.Joy, Babs and Teddy didn't want to elaborate when the Grimsby Telegraph contacted them but the owner of the house...
![Brace yourself for Skegness]( "Brace yourself for Skegness")
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December 8, 2013, 11:30 pm
THREE bodies had to be exhumed by bomb disposal officers when an unexploded German bomb was found in Grimsby's old cemetery in 1948.The cemetery had been closed almost five years earlier after butterfly bombs scattered by German bombers made it too dangerous to venture into the long grass.The closure order was made after three air raid wardens were killed when trying to find out how many of the deadly anti-personnel bombs lay among the gravestones. A small boy was killed two years later when he...
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December 8, 2013, 11:30 pm
Queen Street, Market Rasen, pictured from King Street. George Street is on the left. This picture dates back to the mid-1960s.
![Regal streets in market town]( "Regal streets in market town")
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December 9, 2013, 11:30 pm
THE transformation of Grimsby's Top Town shopping area can be traced back to a 1937 town planning scheme, writes Jeff Beedham.Work on these plans ceased at the outbreak of the Second World War, but in 1943 the Corporation held an exhibition showing the post-war plans for the town and producing a leaflet called "County Borough of Grimsby 1943 – Grimsby Tomorrow".To ease the growing traffic congestion in the town centre, it was proposed that the Corn Exchange, opened in 1857, would...
![Transformation of the town]( "Transformation of the town")
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December 10, 2013, 11:30 pm
RECENTLY we published this photograph of a quiz team from Caistor Grammar School and asked if readers could tell us more.Sheila Clark got in touch to tell us: "My son, who is on the photograph, has supplied all of the names but one."He tells me it was the finals of the competition run by the RNLI down in Cambridge and it was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The quizmaster was Michael Aspel. "Unfortunately they were beaten by a public school!"
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December 10, 2013, 11:30 pm
DENIS Shorne, who lives in Humberston, sent us this photograph which shows a happy group of revellers at the annual dinner and dance of Grimsby company Harper Phillips.Denis explanied: "The picture was taken at the Tudor Cafe, which was above Chambers, in 1953."I can identify some of the people pictured, but if any Bygones readers can help to fill in the other names I'd be most grateful."Harper Phillips was an iron foundry and steel fabrication workshop."It was situated...
![Party time at Tudor Cafe]( "Party time at Tudor Cafe")
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December 11, 2013, 11:30 pm
THIS photograph was shown to us by Bernard Shephard, who lives in Perth, Western Australia.Bernard explained: "The picture shows the Edward Street Junior School football team of 1950/51. Where are they now?If you are one of the boys pictured, or you can name any of the unidentified players, then please get in touch.The address is Bygones, Grimsby Telegraph, 80 Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire DN31 3EH or alternatively you can e-mail bygones@grimsbytelegraph .co.ukAnd...
![School team is all smiles]( "School team is all smiles")
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December 12, 2013, 11:30 pm
RECENT mention of Chambers and the Tudor Cafe prompted Shirley Brennan (nee Clark), of Wells Crescent, Cleethorpes, to get in touch.Shirley said: "You asked if anyone had memories of them. I left school in September 1949 and my first job was there."I used to weigh up goods in the warehouse with Mr Fenwick, then I moved downstairs to the order department and spent short periods taking orders on the phone."I used to go up to the Tudor cafe twice a day to have our large coffee pot...
![Happy times at Chambers]( "Happy times at Chambers")
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December 13, 2013, 11:30 pm
THE Flottergate Benevolent Fund was set up in 1918 by James Blindell, writes Tim Mickleburgh.Mr Blindell was a prominent Grimsby businessman and a member of Flottergate Church, later knighted, who became Liberal MP for Holland-with-Boston.He set up a committee and management board. Over the years the fund raised thousands of pounds which was used for the relief and comfort of the needy of the church and neighbourhood.For a long time, Mr Blindell and his helpers wanted the fund to provide a...
![Blindell the benevolent]( "Blindell the benevolent")
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December 15, 2013, 11:30 pm
WE have photographs from a variety of sports this week, including pool, angling and cricket.If you can add more information to the photographs, or identify anyone pictured, then please let us know.The address is Bygones, Grimsby Telegraph, 80 Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire DN31 3EH or you can e-mail bygones@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk
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