This one may not actually by Grimsby staff - I suspect they may be Caistor Postmen

Older photos are particularly hard to come by, unless you visit the Post Office archives in London. I do how ever have one or two more that will be added once they have been scanned.
 
 

This was taken in the 1960's Grimsby Sorting Office.

It looks like some sort of presentation going on. (It might have been the annual safe driving awards). If you contact me, I have a list of names on who is who in this photo. It came my way after some one in Wellington Street Grimsby, was clearing out their house. The photo was taken by the Grimsby Evening Telegraph.

Again !, another old one from the Grimsby staff of years gone by

Some of todays senior staff tell me that the two in the long coats would have been Christmas casuals. The date on one of their delivery pouches is 1947, so I see the photo as being late 40s or 50s
 
 

This one dates from the early 80's

In the early 80's Miss Della Dolan, (the Miss UK at the time) and also a local resident opened the new Philatelic counter. The Philatelic counter was accessed through the Victoria Street entrance, and sold all the normal products for stamp collectors. The occaision also coinsided with the issue of a special set of stamps showing the Humber Bridge. The staff in the photo, are all dressed in period Postmens costumes, and were invloved in the day
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• Allan Smethurst was a Grimsby postman in the 1960's
• Allan wrote his own folk songs, and eventually went on to find fame and fortune. He came to prominence via some Anglia TV programmes, and his simple yet slightly satirical dialect ditties earned him wide recognition across Britain. The back of this record says "He is a unique example of the contemporary folk singer. He writes songs and sings about everyday things familiar to us all, and he does it in his rolling East Anglian accent which is part and parcel of his appeal."

Download the full MP3 version of one of his songs (679k). If you dont have software for playing MP3 (the newest compression standard for music on the Internet pick up the free software from 
 

Download the a shorter "wav" version  283k, this should play with normal windows software.
Many thanks to Richard Powell and Geoff Elson who enabled me to include, the above on the web site.

Allan Smethurst passed away during December 2000. Read this article that appeared in the Mail On Sunday a few days later.

Allan Smethurst Obituary appeared in The Times on 27th Dec 2000

 

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The  Grimsby Post Office staff at the turn of the century.

Some time during 1998 or 99, a house in central Grimsby was being cleared out and this photo was unearthed. It was handed to one of our staff, who later handed it to me. During late 1999 the Grimsby Evening Telegraph reproduced it in one of their "Days Gone" supplements. I understand it was taken at the old Grimsby football ground, although the date is a little uncertain.

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