Barrow Mere
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Wynton cafe, on the clifftops
I would love to hear from anybody that remembers WYNTON CAFE that was situated on the south cliffs at Barmston. My parents, Terry & Ida McGuire owned & ran the cafe from approx 1966 to 1970. I was just a boy at the time and have very fond memories of Barmston, the hot summers and the cold, isolated snowy winters. I remember standing and watching several bungalows and chalets disappear over the cliffs, my mum would always tell me off for what seemed to me at the time a very exciting adventure. I would go on 'expeditions' alone except for our alsatian 'Zena' and lurcher 'Sheba', and me - equipped with a catapault, a fishing line and a bag of sweets... ...read more here
A memory of Barmston contributed by Tony McGuire
Abbey walk
I remember the old houses opposite our house being flattened to make way for the multi-storey car park. It was exciting watching the construction traffic. I was 4. Once the shell was built the workforce always finished at 7 in the evening and all the floodlights went off. I think it was completed in early 1970 because I recall playing on the ground floor on a summer Sunday when the car park was closed. My mate and I were playing football with the lads from Garden Street. The ball echoed as the car park was empty. The other place for football was 'round the back' in Gresswell's garage yard, an enclosed stadium! It is now Somerfield's supermarket.
A memory of Grimsby contributed by alan offiler
The Lock
I was looking through the photes of Beverley, the man in the picture of the Lock, in the flat cap and shirt sleeves must be Mr Block. He used to come round to my house when I was a boy selling mushrooms that he collected on Figham.
A memory of Beverley contributed by Tony Foster
Postcard
The cyclist in this picture is my father John G Heward. He would have been 35 at the time and we lived in Brook Street.
A memory of Driffield contributed by Kath Heward
Extracts From Barrow Mere & South Humberside books
Here we have a wonderfully
evocative sign of the times: a beach
scene in high summer and not a
glimpse of bare ?esh. Cleethorpes
liked its helter-skelters, as it had
another on the beach. It survived
two World Wars, but not the
great ?oods of 1953. The entire
seashore amusements were washed
away in one night.
An extract from from"Humberside Pocket Album".
The grand Victorian hotel catering for the wealthy dominates the sky-line
to the top left, mirrored by the terrace of cheaper B and Bs on the right.
This was a period of class division, where only the beach was a shared
common denominator.
An extract from from"Humberside Pocket Album".
This promenade area has changed out of all
recognition; to all intents and purposes it is no
longer there. The landscaped part on the left
leading down to the sea was obliterated in the
?oods of 1953.
An extract from from"Humberside Pocket Album".
It is mid-afternoon siesta-time in the tranquillity
of Laceby, a hamlet close to Grimsby. Only the
white van indicates some form of human presence.
An extract from from"Humberside Pocket Album".
Actually the Park Keeper’s house dominates the picture: it is a
splendidly-spired residence when compared with the rather ordinary
dwelling in the background. The typical wrought-iron gates, like so
many others, met their fate in 1940 when they were smelted down
for the war effort.
An extract from from"Humberside Pocket Album".