THE CROSBY ANGEL - A COMMUNITY'S WAR MEMORIAL

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Reminiscences of an imaginary "Old Timer" about the folk who had lived in Crosby from the mid 1800's and early 1920's ...

The Lincolns departing for France 1914
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Local men marching past Scunthorpe Parish Church to go to the Front 1914.
Most of the men enlisted in the Lincolnshire Regiment, many being in the 1/5th Lincolns, a Territorial Battalion ...

Normanby Road, Crosby
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The Tudor style building, centre left, is the Crosby Hotel, built in 1910 and used as a World War 1 Recruiting Office ...

Frodingham Road looking North
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Frodingham Road - Centenary Methodist Church, opened 1908, with spire, centre left.

Celebration of King Georve V's Coronation
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Procession in Frodingham Road, 1911. Holy Souls Roman Catholic Church, opened in 1911, can be seen in the background behind the float