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The Nunsthorpe public library where the group met for many years has now sadly closed. Some of the library’s stock has moved to our new venue Centre4, including some fine local history books – not least copies of those produced by the Garden City History group in the past.
Local Library Resources
North East Lincolnshire’s Library Service has a great collection of books and resources available for people interested in family and local history.
You can search the online catalogue for books that may be of interest to you, place a reservation and order the book to be sent to your nearest library for collection. Here’s a few that may be of interest to former residents of Nunsthorpe.
- Old Nunsthorpe: The ‘Garden City’ Dream – Margaret Gerrish (1998)
- Garden City History Group: Memories – compiled by Roy & Sheila Ellis (2007)
- Nunsthorpe – Norman Kirman (2005)
Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Waltham libraries have free access and downloading of many great resources for local and family history including birth. marriage and death records, and census records for the whole country and WWI military records and much more through Ancestry. The full text of dozens of regional newspapers spaning several centuries can be searched, read and saved on the British Library Newspaper Archive. You can get full free access to any of these from any of the public library’s computers.
The Grimsby Local History Library holds numerous resources to help you investigate the past and trace your family history. Including a database of local marriages, microfische copies of parish records of births and marriages and a host of local trade directories and indexes.
The Local History Library is situated in the basement of the Grimsby Central Library building.
Phone: 01472 323603/323635
Email: libraries@nelincs.gov.uk
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Other Resources:
- North East Lincolnshire Archives
- Lincolnshire Archives
- Carnegie Heritage Centre Hull
- Hull History Centre
- Centre4
- Free BMD – online birth, marriage and death records.
- British Pathe – old newsreels and films.
- Commonwealth War Grave Commission
- The Grimsby & Cleethorpes History Club – hundreds of photographs of Grimsby and Cleethorpes in days gone by.
- Lincs to the Past
- Scartho Road Institution workhouse
- Wikipedia – an article about the history of the estate through to the present day.
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Grimsby At Work
Grimsby is famous for its fishing industry, but here’s a film featuring people reminiscing about other work that kept this town ticking over.
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Nunsthorpe Garden City History Group 