New 19 Jul 2007 Cleethorpes Beach   An unused postcard   Probably from around the mid 1920s The "Leaking Boot" Statue, Kingsway Gardens, Cleethorpes   A used postcard addressed to Knottingley, Yorkshire   Postmarked 3 Jul 1925   There is a 1967 postcard below showing the statue in a different setting Cleethorpes, Paddling Pool   An unused postcard dating probably from the late 1940s The Boating Lake, Cleethorpes   An unused postcard dating from the 1950s Four scenes of Cleethorpes   An unused postcard dated from the 1950s The Pier and Gardens, Cleethorpes   A used postcard addressed to Coppull near Chorley, Lancashire   Postmarked 20 Jul 1952

	Humberston Fitties, Cleethorpes   A used postcard addressed to Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire   Postmark unreadable but around the 1960's The Promenade, Cleethorpes   A used postcard addressed to Southampton, Hampshire   Postmarked 17 Jun 1964 The Leaking Boot, Kingsway Gardens, Cleethorpes   A used postcard addressed to Hessle, East Yorkshire   Postmarked 18 May 1967   There is a 1925 postcard above showing the statue in a different setting The Boating Lake, Cleethorpes   A used postcard addressed to Abbey Wood, London   Postmarked 19 Jun 1967 Cleethorpes, Humberston Fitties Camp   A used postcard addressed to Conisbrough, Yorkshire   Postmarked 7 Aug 1967   The Pier Gardens, Cleethorpes   A used postcard addressed to Gateshead, County Durham   Postmarked 16 Sep 1967   Looking down away from the Pier   Ross Castle, Cleethorpes   A used postcard addressed to Hessle, Yorkshire   Postmarked 17 Jul 1973  The Pier Approach, Cleethorpes   A used postcard addressed to Nottingham   Postmarked 4 Jun 1974  Humberston Fitties Holiday Camp.   The postmark on this card is unreadable but it is most probably around 1976.   The Camp is today unrecognisable from this 1970s view, it is now called Thorpe Park and has been laid out with roads, trees, ponds and many other features. We spent six months living here in a fairly small caravan with our four young children in the early 70s whilst having sold one house and waiting to purchase the next. It should have put me off caravans for life but it did the opposite and we now own a tourer.

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