Grimsby, Lincolnshire

Abbey walk

I remember the old houses opposite our house being flattened to make way for the multi-storey car park. It was exciting watching the construction traffic. I was 4. Once the shell was built the workforce always finished at 7 in the evening and all the floodlights went off. I think it was completed in early 1970 because I recall playing on... [more]

Grimsby Bull Ring

I was a teenager at the time of the photo. I remember cycling through the Bull Ring at a heck of a pace having picked up speed coming down Deansgate Bridge,
then having to brake hard to negotiate the chicane into Victoria Street.

You can clearly see centre right the top of the underground toilets which I believe are... [more]

Humberside Pocket Album

The old Royal was demolished in the 1960s; it thrives today as a much smaller hotel called the Humber Royal, part of the Forte hotel chain. It is pleasing to see, for once, that a facility has not been lost but renewed to meet modern needs. For lovers of trivia, previous managers of the Royal were the parents of the actress Patricia Hodge.

Humberside Pocket Album

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert opened the Dock Tower in 1855, and Albert rode by lift the 309 feet to the top. It was designed after the style of the Palazzo Publico in Sienna, Italy. Electricity has taken over its original functions, but the Tower still stands proudly high above the docks.

Times Gone By

Grimsby is a major port, lying at the southern entrance of the River Humber. The Fish Dock was built in 1893, when it served the biggest fishing fleet in the world; this fact might seem to be contradicted by this preponderance of merchant vessels berthed in the Royal Dock. The mixture of power-driven ships, barques and other craft indicates the trend... [more]