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Skeffling| Easington| Patrington| Withernsea| Spurn Head
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North Humberside memories
I Lived in The Square
I used to live in the square in one of the houses opposite the church. My father was in the navy at Spurn Head for a couple of years during the war. I went to the local school and I think my teacher was called Miss Skelton. I remember the awfull air raids, the night before we left for our other posting to Wales there was a terrible one, we were all sleeping at the local pub and my sister and I were so scared. My other sister joined the W.A.A.F, she used to do hairdressing in our front room. I remember there was a shop in the square, we used to play near the barn.My SURNAME was NURSE.
My Family
I have just started to trace my family tree and found that my mother was born in the pub in Patrington market place in the year 1922. The family name being Melbourne. Does anybody have any memories of the people who owned that pub around that time or even a little later. It would make interesting reading.
Lifeboat Cottages on Spurn Head
My great-great-grandfather Fewson Hopper was one of the first lifeboatmen to be housed in the Spurn Head cottages shown. They were built in the mid 19th century for the lifeboat crew members. Fewson (the maiden name of his mother) was lifeboat master (coxswain) from 1865-77, joining Britain's only professional resident lifeboat crew in 1846 and progressing to mate before being appointed master. On retirement from the boat, he became lighthouse keeper at Salt End, further down the River Humber. Many of Fewson's ten children became involved in the lifesaving operations, including daughter Eliza who was Spurn's only postmistress, serving more than 50 years until 1920. She operated the electric telegraph for her father. As a retired lifetime journalist, now author, I am currently researching and writing a history of my ancestral family on Spurn's lonely peninsula.
Cleethorpes Zoo
I believe the elephant in the picture was named Tanya. I have fond memories of the zoo as my father Dave Mosley moved us from Derby to Cleethorpes in 1965 as he was employed by the zoo to do some building work, we as kids used to get to pet the animals, my favourite memory must be of stroking Calypso the killer whale.
I Played With This Bear Cub
My cousin worked at Cleethorpe Marina Zoo and I went in with her during summer holidays. I recall going in the pen and playing with this baby bear, I was about 9 years old. She also let me go in with the dolphins, they pulled me round their big pool in a dinghy. A lllama baby died whilst I was there and she also had to kill baby chicks to feed to the snakes. What an experience eh - no health and safety in those days and such fun too x
Grimsby Bull Ring
I was a teenager at the time of the photo. I remember cycling through the Bull Ring at a heck of a pace having picked up speed coming down Deansgate Bridge,
then having to brake hard to negotiate the chicane into Victoria Street.
You can clearly see centre right the top of the underground toilets which I believe are still there.
If instead of going into Victoria Street you turned left, on the right was the Black Swan, affectionately known as the Mucky Duck. There was another pub/hotel on the opposite side of the road to the Black Swan but I can't remember its name.
All of the buildings in the foreground were demolished, but I think the building to the right of the white one in the background is Chambers Coffee Shop, the smells coming from there were amazing.
Sadly most of the old buildings have gone, along with the character of the town.
My Birth Place And Date
I was born in Grimsby in 1965 and proud of this. My mum died at these docks in 1971 by accident, she fell and drowned. I'd like to hear from anyone who knows my family or knew my mum, Josephine Martha Mary Tonner, maiden name George. My sister Lorraine died in 2001, and I have a sister called Francine. I'd love to have contact with her. Please email me if you can help at all.
