Grimsby
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Grimsby books (4 available)
Grimsby Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Grimsby - A History and Celebration
Hardback
Hull Town and City Memories
Hardback
- 68 photos on Grimsby appear in 9 Frith books - View photos of Grimsby
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Grimsby memories
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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 the ground floor on a summer Sunday when the car park was closed. My mate and I were playing football with the lads from Garden Street. The ball echoed as the car park was empty. The other place for football was 'round the back' in Gresswell's garage yard, an enclosed stadium! It is now Somerfield's supermarket.
Contributed by alan offiler
Lincolnshire memories
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 the ground floor on a summer Sunday when the car park was closed. My mate and I were playing football with the lads from Garden Street. The ball echoed as the car park was empty. The other place for football was 'round the back' in Gresswell's garage yard, an enclosed stadium! It is now Somerfield's supermarket.
A memory of Grimsby contributed by alan offiler
3 Old Chapel Lane
My grandparents, Reginald and Elizabeth Smith, lived at #3 Old Chapel Lane, the second house from the right in the photo. What a shock to see it! It brings back wonderful memories of them and my childhood.
A memory of Laceby contributed by Matthew Smith
My first love at beacholme
I was probably only about 8 years old but I remember it oh so well. It was upstairs in the disco, she came from Leeds. We spent more holidays here than I can remember as a child, me, my sister Lorraine and my mam and dad Doreen and Maurice Horne. Sadly my dad's not with us now. We had some lovely times. I used to love the zoo which is now of course pPeasure Island. Oh and the paddling pool up by the boating lake.
A memory of Humberston contributed by jeffrey horne
Extracts From Grimsby & Lincolnshire books
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.
An extract from from"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.
An extract from from"Humberside Pocket Album".
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 at the turn of the century in marine transport from sail to steam.
An extract from from"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 at the turn of the century in marine transport from sail to steam.
An extract from from"Countryside Poems".
Amid this forest of masts and spars are the three-masted barque ‘Warden Law’, the three-masted barquentine ‘Violet’,
and the two-masted schooner ‘Pride of Anglesey’. Nearer the camera is a Humber keel, and alongside her is the
ketch-rigged Yorkshire billieboy ‘Tiger’.
An extract from from"Victorian and Edwardian Maritime Album".