Grimsby (GB)

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Grimsby (or archaically Great Grimsby) is a large town and seaport situated on the South Bank of the Humber Estuary close to where it reaches the North Sea. The town was traditionally in Lincolnshire, until it was absorbed into the new county of Humberside in 1974. After the abolition of Humberside in 1996, the town was returned to Lincolnshire.

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Grimsby

Grimsby HO opened in 1770 and was classed as a Postal Town. Money Orders issued from 1792. Situated in Market Place, Bull Ring Lane,
Mails to the North arrived in Grimsby and were shipped across to hull on the north side of the Humber daily. Initially the Post Office was named GREAT GRIMSBY in the Post Office Directories.
Grimsby office was issued with its own Maltese Cross cancel in 1840 and their 323 GPO numeral handstamp in 1844.
By 1870 Telegraph services was offered and the Office was assigned the Telegraph code GY. As the telegraph was extended to other smaller offices they were assigned as GYA, GYB etc see below.
By 1882 larger premises were sought and the office moved to West Street in Mary's Gate, Grimsby. The telegraph service was transferred to a new Postal Telegraph Office in Victoria Street (North). By the end of 1913 all Postal Services were transferred into the West Street, Mary's Gate office, renamed as the Grimsby Head Office handling the sale of stamps, stamp distribution, Telegraph and Telephone services including Telegrams.

East Coast Jazz Festival Cleethorpes 1-3 Aug 1964

Grimsby Square Circle 1904

Pennell & Sons Ltd. Seedsmen of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Express rated letter to London, Single lined circle cancel of GRIMSBY LINCS. 1948

Pennell & Sons Ltd. Seedsmen of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Express rated (6d) + 2½d Postage, letter to London, Single lined circle cancel of GRIMSBY LINCS. 1948

Branch Offices

Grimsby Fish Docks

Branch Office at the Fish Docks in Grimsby. Also a Telegraph Office assigned code Grimsby (A)

Riby Square

Branch Office at the City end of Fish Docks, Grimsby. Also a Telegraph Office assigned code Grimsby (B)

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Grimsby Railway

Grimsby & Peterborough Sorting Carriage

The Railway line unning from Grimsby to Peterborough provided for a Post Office Sorting Carriage to operate on the line for mails from the north and south to be sorted en-route.

Sub-Office of Grimsby

Bedford Street

Opened 1st July 1895 - closed c6th Feb 1929

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Central Market

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Clee Park

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Freeman Street

Also a telegraph office assigned as Grimsby (D)

c.1905 PhotoPostalcard of the Market in Freeman Street

GRIMSBY D cancelled photo card 1905 KEdVII ½d with marginal rule.

Gilbey Road

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Hainton Avenue

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Lambert Road

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New Clee

Also a telegraph Office assigned code Grimsby (C)

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Park Street

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Ripon Street

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Victor Street

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Welholme Road

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West Marsh

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Outer Sub-Offices

Offices in the general Grimsby area coming under the control of Grimsby HO.

Cleethorpes

Cleethorpes Single ring cancel of 1908

Cleethorpes is a seaside town on the estuary of the Humber in North East Lincolnshire, England. It has been permanently occupied since the 6th century, with fishing as its original industry, then developing into a resort in the 19th century.

The name Cleethorpes is thought to come from joining the words clee, an old word for clay, and thorpes, an Old English/Old Norse word for villages, and is of comparatively modern origin.

Before becoming a unified town, Cleethorpes was made up of three small villages, or "thorpes": Itterby, Oole and Thrunscoe, which were part of a wider parish called Clee (centred on Old Clee). The resort expanded following the linking of the town by railway with industrial towns in Yorkshire. Cleethorpes Pier opened in 1873 and the promenade in 1885.Local residents from Lincolnshire and the Yorkshire and Humber area affectionately refer to Cleethorpes as Meggies. Cleethorpes can also be known as "down beach".

Immingham

IMMINGHAM GRIMSBY Rubber cancellation 1911

Immingham lies 4 miles NW of grimsby town. The region was relatively unpopulated and undeveloped until the early 1900s, when the Great Central Railway began developing its Immingham Dock; as a consequence of the dock development, and of nearby post-Second World War large scale industrial developments Immingham developed from a minor place into a significant town during the 20th century. The Port of Immingham & Grimsby was the largest port in the United Kingdom by tonnage with 54 million tonnes of cargo passing through in 2019.

The name Immingham is thought to mean the "Homestead of the people of Imma"; (de)constructed from the elements "Imma" + inga + ham.

The place was referred to as Imungeham in the Domesday Book, and recorded as Immingeham in around 1115.

Laceby

Laceby is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A46 road, just outside the western boundary of Grimsby.

LACEBY GRIMSBY Rubber cancellation 1908