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Topliss drapers 1882-1975
I wonder if anyone remembers Topliss, 16 Mercer Row? It was there until 1975 when it was taken over by Boyes. It was probably the last shop in Britain to have a "cash railway" for taking customers' payments to the cashier and returning the change. The money travelled in a hollow wooden ball, like a croquet ball cut in half. There is a photo on The Cash Railway Website. Cash ball systems were generally supreseded by overhead wire or pneumatic tube systems.
A memory of Louth contributed by Andrew Buxton
happy days
my husband and i were tenants of the old hewitts brewery at the crown inn ror about two years in the sixties we had some marvellous characters as regulars the appleby brothers what jokers, herman the butcher len the baker jim the estate agent strum the plumber whacker from the garage and lots of caravanners from sheffield and nottingham mainly in the summer when business was really brisk salt fleetwas the terminus for applebys buses and the drivers would usually have a break at the crown before returning to grimsby i remember gerry derek arnold ted and tom all good fun fellas! we had some hectic times withe the darts team very good losers usually ! i loved ...read more here
A memory of Saltfleet contributed by dorothy atkinson
Middle Rasen farmer sires two Mayors for Grimsby
My 2nd G/Grandfather, Robert Milner (1794-1870), married Mary Ann Norton on 25th April 1821 in St. Peters Church, Middle Rasen, winessed by Thomas Miller, Nicholas Danby and Frances Popple. They had ten children, all born in Middle Rasen, and the family remained there until my grandfather Christopher Miller (1865-1937), grandson of Robert Milner, moved to Grimsby and later became Mayor of that town in the year 1912/13. Walter Banyard Smith (1913-1993), a 2nd G/Grandson of Robert Miller, was also Mayor of Grimsby in the year 1980/81.
A memory of Middle Rasen contributed by Ilynn Anne Miller
school house
I have been to visit the old school house in Maltby le Marsh which was a charity school, run by Cornelius Binks. He was my Great great great grandfather. I know somewhere out there there is a photograph of him with his wife and the children at the school, I would be very interested if anyone has a copy of this as I only have a photocopy kindly given to me by the present owner.
A memory of contributed by Lynne C
Extracts From North Thoresby & South Humberside books
These were built in the early 18th century with money bequeathed by Thomas Powis for the purpose. He was a vintner
from Middlesex who had been born in Chepstow. The almshouses stand in what is now Bridge Street, on the site of a ruined
medieval hospital.
An extract from from"Grimsby - A History and Celebration".
An extract from from"Grimsby - A History and Celebration".
Leaving
Chepstow
and on to
Mathern
An extract from from"Grimsby - A History and Celebration".
These are the parapets of
the lower bailey looking
towards Marten`s Tower,
which gets its name from
the prisoner it housed
in the 17th century.
Marten was one of the
signatories of the death
warrant of King Charles I,
and as a result faced life
imprisonment, the last
twelve years of which he
spent here.
An extract from from"Grimsby - A History and Celebration".
The ornate clock on the Herbert Lewis department store building
on the right is still a prominent feature of the High Street. Gone,
however, are Skyrmes Café & Boarding House beyond and the
Bon Marché, where, at one time, Chepstow school children were
supplied with their uniforms.
An extract from from"Grimsby - A History and Celebration".