Grimsby
  Grid Reference TA 269 097  
 

Population 87,574   Census 2001
 

St James (Pictured left) is a large 13 century Cruciform church with cathedral-like proportions. The Central Tower (circa 1365) Houses 10 Bells.

 
Open: Tuesday and Friday 9.30am - 12 noon
St James Church
 
The Danes founded Grimsby in the 9th Century, although evidence of older settlements in the area have been found. It is recognised the name is based on grim's village, as by is the old Danish word for village.
 
Including the villages it has absorbed and cleethorpes, the population total of the Grimsby Area 138,842. This makes it the largest Lincolnshire Town.
National Fishing Heritage Centre

Grimsby is listed in the Domesday Book, having a population of around 200, a priest, a mill and a ferry, and a defensive ditch.
 
In medieval times, Grimsby had two parish churches, St Mary's and St James'. Only St James' now remains.
 
The railway was introduced in 1848
Victoria Flour Mills - Converted into Apartments

The Dock Tower was completed in 1851. (Pictured Left)
 
During World War II, The germans refused to bomb the dock tower as they used it as a landmark to guide them to Hull docks. Plans were issued for it to be demolished because of this during the war, however they never got carried out. Sorry Hull!
  The local radio stations are:-
 
BBC Radio Humberside,
Viking FM
Lincs FM,
Compass FM.
 
To cause confusion, you will find the South Humberside Industrial Estate, in Grimsby which is of course in North East Lincolnshire, Humberside having been abolished.
The Grimsby Auditorium Theatre
Dock Tower

Grimsby has a good railway station:-

TransPennine Express to Manchester Airport via Doncaster and Sheffield - Northern Rail operate services to Barton-upon-Humber for bus to Hull - Lincoln and Central Trains services to Nottingham.

Local Unique Words (If you know more let me know)

Boke to gag or vomit
Jiffling verb; to fidget
Meggies the nearby town of Cleethorpes
Nunny A local term given to the Nunsthorpe area of the town
Pyewipe a pewit (also the name of an industrial estate)
Skaffa the local pronunciation of the district and former village of Scartho
Spoggy chewing gum

 
St James dates back to at least 1114 (the first documented evidence of the church) The parish church was mentioned in the Doomsday Book and there is evidence of Roman and Saxon bricks in the west wall.
John Wesley (Methodist) preached in the Church in 1758.
St James's Church is the only parish church in the country to have a choir school attached to it, this was founded in 1880. Damage was sustained during World War II. On 14th July 1943, two bombs dropped into the churchyard, destroying the north wall of the transept. Nearly all the windows were broken, and a majority of the slates were thrown from the roof. The windows in the Memorial Chapel (built to remember those who lost their lives in the First World War) were the only windows to survive the second world war bombing. Shrapnel can still be found in the northern face of the Lady Chapel walls.

History Snippets

1086 Mentioned in Domesday Book 1132 Augustinian Abbey was founded
1184 St Leonard's Nunnery was founded. 1201 Grimsby obtained its Charter from King John
1538 Henry VIII closed the two friaries and the following year closed the nunnery. 1852 Royal Dock and Dock Tower were built.
1879 Alexandra Dock and Union Dock were built. 1856 No 1 Fish Dock was built.
1877 No 2 Fish Dock was constructed. 1934 No 3 Fish Dock was finished
1854 a water company was formed to provide piped water 1850s sewers were dug under Grimsby.
1877 Grimsby and District Hospital was as caister poor union workhouse 1848 The railway arrived.
1883 Peoples Park opened. 1894 Duke of York Gardens opened.
1900 The first public library. 1901 Grimsby gained electric street lights
1904 The Fishermen's Chapel 1928 The Corporation Bridge was opened.
1900 An ice factory was built. 1984 Abbeygate Shopping Centre.
1967 Riverhead Centre built and bull ring demolished 1989 Riverhead Centre is revamped and renamed Freshney Place.
1995 Grimsby Auditorium 1974 Elton John sings a song called Grimsby

The street names with gate in their name refers to the Danish word gata meaning street.
The Corporation Bridge is a lifting bridge in the town's former fish docks and can be found on corporation road. The current bridge built in 1925 replaces the original swing bridge built in 1873. The bridge was last raised in the early 90's and it is unknown if it is mechanically capable of being still opened, there is a rumour that the bridge is going to be restored. If you visit check out the names of the workers who helped construct the bridge, you will find their names on the steel.
 
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Yacht Club
Grimsby photographic society
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Youth Orchestra
Grimsby YMCA
The Grimsby Institute
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