Grimsby and District Battalion
of the
Boys Brigade
Designed and researched by Mike Smith Officer Grimsby District Battalion
This history of the Grimsby,Cleethorpes and District Battalion of the Boys Brigade was formulated over 30 yrs at least.
I have found out a lot about some Company's more than others. Unfortunately some Company’s history as been lost over the years.
So what I have found I would like to share with everyone.
Mike Smith (4th Cleethorpes 1962/1971. 5th Cleethorpes 1979/1994. 1st Humberstone 1994/1998. 2nd Cleethorpes 1998/2009.
The Grimsby, Cleethorpes and District Battalion was formed the 1st June 1927, but before this Company’s were in different areas. Grimsby Company’s and Company’s with less than
30 Boys were called Platoons.
Company’s in Cleethorpes and Company’s in Grimsby were they started
1st Cleethorpes Church Trinity Methodist St Peters Ave.
2nd Cleethorpes Church Mill Road Primitive Chapel.
3rd Cleethorpes Baptist Church Alexandra Road.
Later other Company’s joined.
4th Cleethorpes Church Lovett Street Methodist. June 1954
5th Cleethorpes Church Beaconthorpe Methodist Tennyson Road.
Company’s from the district side that joined the Battalion.
1st Humberstone Church Humberstone Methodist Humberstone Ave Junction Tetney Road.
1st Louth Riverhead Church
1st Alford St Wilfrid’s (Church of England) Church, East Street, Alford
1st North Thoresby St Helens Church
1st Skegness St Pauls Church
2nd Skegness Roman Bank/Seathorne Methodist - Algitha Road Church
1st Lincoln St Giles Church
2nd Lincoln Monks Road
3rd Lincoln Burton Road Church
4th Lincoln West Parade Methodist
5th Lincoln Moorland Park Methodist Church, Skellingthrope Road, Lincoln, LN6 7RB
6th Lincoln Birchwood Avenue
1st Scunthorpe
1st Gainsborough
1st Epworth
1st Bardney
1st Wainfleet
1st Tetney St Johns Methodist Church
1st North Thoresby. St Helens Church
1st Waltham, Waltham Methodist Church Cheapside
1st Mablethorpe
1st Keadby
1st Binbrook
1st Company (Grimsby) Ebenezer Primitive Chapel, Cleethorpes Road.
2nd Company (Grimsby) All Saints Church Heneage Road.
3rd Company (Grimsby) Spring Church believed to be the white building junction of Ellis way Victoria street and Peakes parkway.
4th Company (Grimsby) St Andrews Church corner Freeman Street and Church Street.
5th Company (Grimsby) Wesleyan Methodist Church Arlington St.
6th Company (Grimsby) Lord Street Primitive Methodist Mission.
7th Company (Grimsby) Park Congregational Church Durban Road, (Oldest Company in the Battalion.)
8th Company (Grimsby) Hainton Methodist Corner Hainton Ave/East Marsh Street now Ellis Way Hainton Square.
9th Company (Grimsby) Ebenezer Primitive Chapel, Cleethorpes Road.
10th Company (Grimsby) South Parade Methodist Church, South Parade Grimsby.
11th Company (Grimsby) Victoria Street Primitive Methodist (Sunday School).
12th Company (Grimsby) Central Methodist Hall Duncolme Street.
13th Company (Grimsby) Stortford Street Primitive Methodist Church.
The History of The Boys Brigade Hymn.
Priscilla Owens (1829–1907) was a Sunday school teacher at the Union Square Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland. She wrote a number of hymns and songs for her pupils; this is the best known today written in 1882. The music was written by William Kirkpatrick (1838–1921) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the same Christian denomination as Owens, and was a prolific writer of hymn tunes and compiler of hymn collections. The hymn has always been closely associated with the Boys' Brigade, which has the motto, "Sure and Stedfast". It is the official hymn of Dollar Academy, an independent day and boarding school in Scotland, where it is known as the "Dollar Anthem".