Mystery Hotel 1912 ????????

[dave the tyke]

From my rapidly failing memory,
There was a rellie named Buxton living Sheffield 1901 census. A relative of his may have lived in Grimsby and taken the photo whilst on holiday. I take most of my photos whilst on holiday so don't get sidetracked to Grimsby. I must confess that before we knew the Grimsby connection I favoured places other than Sheffield for the same reason.

      (on Hols) Dave

[Carnation]

Hi, this is the back of 'The Mystery Hotel'
Lisa

[J.J.]

Oh, dear, chances are he was only using it for an ink-blotter to clean his stamp!!   ... J.J.

funny, as I've missed notifications on so many of my postings, but I get
umpteen dozens on this one...   ( trust me, I do want to solve it,
but at the same time...am tempted to turn off notification  ) 

ahhh, but then it has been pointed out that we have indeed confirmed
that it is, beyond a doubt, a photograph!....with several stamps on back.

[broakham]

   Could the street be Railway Place? The 1919 Kellys Directory has a Railway Hotel on Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, and the modern Multimap shows Cleethorpe Road and Railway Place as adjacent. Could the photo be of a side/rear entrance?

[jaywit]

I have been looking at Grimsby/Cleethorpes and I found, but no photo, a Darleys Hotel which sold Wards beer, and it said next to the Town Hall, now the Town Hall does have a similar style of architecture.http://www.cleethorpesuk.com/index.cfm?id=569&image=70&type=Local%20Images I think we need a Grimsby expert now.

[bearkat]

There are several old photographs of Grimsby on the Francis Frith site:

http://www.francisfrith.com/

[J.J.]

East Bank Place looked good to me, Paul, but I can't find a hotel
there...I can't even find THERE!!!   J.J.

Insert screaming icon tearing hair out, here...

[Mair]

I went off trawling through pictures found this if of interest:-

Marples Hotel before the bombs hit

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s02039

...and after....

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s02102

How on earth anyone got out of there........

Sorry no matches to our little puzzle - some near misses though.

[J.J.]

I didn't add this the first time around, but I suppose it's a diversion from the
searching...and we can think some good thoughts for those who were affected
by the tragedy...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A5559573#footnote1
http://www.chrishobbs.com/marples1940.htm