Sir : It may be of interest to recall that the first regular weekly mails between Grimsby and London were established by Ac of Parliament (12 Car. II. C. 35) in A.D. 1660, which states: “Provided also and be it enacted that a letter or packet post shall once every week come to Kenddal by way of Lancaster, and to the town of Penrith by way of Newcastle and Carlisle, and to the City of Lincoln and the borough of Grimsby.”
Grimsby 'at that time must have been much more important than it was 140 years later, when it was little more than a village; before the Old Dock was made at the back of Victoria Street and the River Head about 1800 A.D.
There is an eroded pillar standing in St James churchyard near the south entrance to the church. It is not a monument, and I was told many years ago that it was the remains of the market cross removed when the old Town Hall, which stood in the middle of the Old Market Place, was demolished. Perhaps someone of your readers can give some information?- Yours truly
A GRIMBARIAN.
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