LINCOLNSHIRE DIRECTORY

ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES Grimsby Local History Library

a Town Hall Square, Grimsby DN31 1HG t 01472 323600 w tinyurl.com/lincsinspire-glhl The Local History Library is situated on the first floor of Grimsby Central Library, and holds such items as pamphlets from the Civil War, council minutes, material about the local fishing industry, maps, newspapers and photos.

Lincoln Central Library

a Free School Lane, Lincoln LN2 1EZ t 01522 782010 w tinyurl.com/lincs-gov-lcl Lincoln Central Library holds copies of census returns, local newspapers and some 40,000 pictures of Lincolnshire towns, villages and people.

Lincolnshire Archives

a St Rumbold Street, Lincoln LN2 5AB

t 01522 782040 e lincolnshire.archives@lincolnshire.gov.uk w lincolnshire.gov.uk/historyheritage/lincolnshire-archives

The diocesan record office looks after registers and parishchest material for the whole of Lincolnshire, and its online catalogue is at www.calmview.eu/lincolnshirearchives/calmview.

The archive is also the home of the Tennyson Research Centre, devoted to Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson and his family.

North East Lincolnshire Archives

a Grimsby Town Hall, Town Hall Square, Grimsby DN31 1HX

t 01472 325389 e archives@lincsinspire.com

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The holdings here include local port, shipping and industrial archives from the 19th and 20th centuries, such as registers of ships and crew lists, in addition to logbooks and admission registers from roughly 100 schools in North and North East Lincolnshire dating from 1863 onwards.

North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library

a Scunthorpe Central Library, Carlton Street, Scunthorpe DN15 6TX t 01724 860161 e ref.library@northlincs.gov.uk

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Here you will find material covering North Lincolnshire as well as wider Lincolnshire and former Humberside regions.

GROUPS AND SOCIETIES Fenland Family History Society

e membership@ fenlandfhs.org.uk w fenlandfhs.org.uk Founded in 2001, the Fenland Family History Society covers the former Isle of Ely and parts of South Lincolnshire and West Norfolk. It meets at Wisbech Library.

Lincolnshire Family History Society

a Unit 6, 33 Monks Way, off Monks Road, Lincoln LN2 5LN t 01522 528088 e resourcecentre@lincolnshirefhs.org.uk

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The society was formed in 1990 and covers the ancient county of Lincolnshire except for the Isle of Axholme. Its Resource Centre on Monks Way in Lincoln is open on Mondays. Some society-compiled data is accessible via Findmypast ( findmypast.co.uk); other data is only available to members of the society via its website.

MUSEUMS Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre

a Alexandra Dock, Grimsby DN31 1UZ

t 01472 323345 e fhc@nelincs.gov.uk w www.fishingheritage.com This award-winning museum holds collections relating to the maritime communities of Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Immingham.

International Bomber Command Centre

a Canwick Avenue, Lincoln LN4 2HQ

t 01522 514755 e info@internationalbcc.co.uk

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Here you can find out more about the role Bomber Command played in the Second World War.

North Lincolnshire Museum

a Oswald Road, Scunthorpe DN15 7BD

t 01724 297055 e museum@northlincs.gov.uk w northlincolnshiremuseum.co.uk

The collections here include material relating to the local iron and steel industry. There’s also an online searchable archive of 16,000 digitised images located at northlincsmuseumimagearchive.org.uk.

WEBSITE Findmypast

w bit.ly/findmypast-lincs Findmypast dominates the region thanks to its ongoing association with Lincolnshire Archives. The collection include baptisms and burials (both 1538–1911) together with marriage records (1538–1837) from Lincolnshire’s Church of England parishes.