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Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire,
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, England. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation. Grimsby is north-east of
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, (via the Humber Bridge) south-south-east of Hull, south-east of
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, east of
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and south-east of
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. Grimsby is also home to notable landmarks such as Grimsby Minster, Port of Grimsby, Cleethorpes Beach and Grimsby Fishing Heritage Museum. Grimsby was once the home port for the world's largest fishing fleet around the mid-20th century, but fishing then fell sharply. The
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denied UK access to Icelandic fishing grounds and the
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used its Common Fisheries Policy to parcel out fishing quotas to other European countries in waters within of the UK coast. Grimsby suffered post-industrial decline like most other post-industrial towns and cities. However, food production has been on the rise in the town since the 1990s. The Grimsby–Cleethorpes conurbation acts as a cultural and economic centre for much of north and east Lincolnshire. Grimsby people are called Grimbarians; the term ' is also used jokingly, often for football supporters. Great Grimsby Day is 22 January. Grimsby is also the second largest settlement by population in Lincolnshire after
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, with
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being the third largest.


Geography

The town was named "Great Grimsby" to distinguish it from
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, a village about to the south, near Louth. It had a population of 88,243 in the 2011 census and an estimated population of 88,323 in 2019. It forms a conurbation with adjoining Cleethorpes and the villages of Humberston, Scartho, Brigsley and Waltham. The 2011 census gave the conurbation a population of 134,160, making it the second largest built-up area in
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.


History

There is archaeological evidence of a small town of Roman workers in the area in the 2nd century CE of Roman occupation. Located on the River Haven, which flowed into the
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, the site long provided a location for ships to shelter from approaching storms. It was well placed to exploit the rich fishing grounds in the
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Vikings

Sometime in the 9th century CE, Grimsby was settled by Danes. Legend has it that the name Grimsby derives from ''Grim,'' a Danish fisherman. The suffix ''-by'' is derived from the
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word for village (compare with no, by, da, by and sv, by). The legendary founding of Grimsby features in a medieval romance, the '' Lay of Havelock the Dane,'' but historians see this account as a myth. In Norse mythology, ''Grim'' (Mask) and ''Grimnir'' (Masked One) are names adopted by the deity Odin (Anglo-Saxon '' Woden'') when travelling incognito amongst mortals, as in the short poem known as "Grimnir's Sayings" (''Grimnismal'') in the ''
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''. The intended audience of the Havelock tale (recorded much later as the ''Lay of Havelock the Dane'') may have taken the fisherman Grim to be Odin in disguise. The Odinic name "Grimr/Grim" occurs in many English place names in the historical
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and elsewhere in Britain. Examples are numerous earthworks named ''Grimsdyke''. Other British place names with the element ''Grim'' are explained as referring to Woden/ Odin (e.g. Grimsbury, Grimspound, Grime's Graves, Grimsditch, Grimsworne), and Grimsby is likely to have the same derivation. Grimsby is listed in the
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of 1086 as having a population of around 200, a priest, a mill, and a ferry.


Medieval times

Grimsby grew in the 12th century into a fishing and trading port, at one time ranking twelfth in importance to the Crown for tax revenue. The town gained its charter from King John in 1201; the first mayor was installed in 1202. Grimsby is noted in the in this stanza by Kali Kolsson: Grimsby had no town walls. It was too small and felt to be protected by the marshland around it. However, the town dug a defensive ditch. Grimsby in medieval times had two parish churches, St Mary's and St James. Only St James, now Grimsby Minster, remains. It is associated with a folk tale of an imp who played tricks in the church and was turned into stone by an angel. (A similar tale is told of Lincoln Cathedral – See Lincoln Imp). In the mid-14th century, the town benefited from the generosity of Edmund de Grimsby, a local man who became a senior Crown official and judge in Ireland. In the 15th century, The Haven began to silt up, preventing ships in the Humber from docking. As a result, Grimsby entered a long period of decline until the late 18th century. By 1801, the population of Grimsby numbered 1,524, around the size it had been in the
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. By 1810 Joseph Smedley was hiring a purpose built theatre for seven Guineas.


Rise of fishing and maritime industry

The Grimsby Haven Company was formed by Act of Parliament in May 1796 (the Grimsby Haven Act) for the purpose of "widening, deepening, enlarging, altering and improving the Haven of the Town and Port of Great Grimsby". After the dredging of The Haven and related improvement in the early 19th century, the town grew rapidly as the port boomed, importing iron, timber, wheat, hemp, and flax. New docks were needed to cope with the expansion. The necessary works were allowed under the Grimsby Docks Act of 1845. The arrival of the railway in 1848 eased the transport of goods to and from the port to markets and farms. Coal mined in the South
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coalfields was brought by rail and exported through Grimsby. Rail links direct to London and the
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allowed fresh "Grimsby fish" to gain nationwide renown. The first true fish dock opened in Grimsby in 1856, and the town became central to the development of the commercial fishing industry. The Dock Tower was completed in 1851, followed by the Royal Dock in 1852. No.1 Fish Dock was completed in 1856, followed by No.2 Fish Dock in 1877. Alexandra Dock and Union Dock were completed in 1879. During this period, the fishing fleet was much expanded. In a rare reversal of usual trends, large numbers of fishermen from the south-east and Devon travelled north to join the Grimsby fleet. Over 40 per cent of the newcomers came from Barking in East London and other Thames-side towns. In 1857 there were 22 vessels in Grimsby. Six years later there were 112.Leslie Herman, ''Grimsby Fish Docks Centenary,'' 1956 The first two legitimate steam trawlers built in Britain were based in Grimsby. By 1900, a tenth of the fish consumed in the United Kingdom was landed there, although there were also many smaller coastal fishing ports and villages involved. The demand for fish in Grimsby meant that at its peak in the 1950s it claimed to be the largest fishing port in the world. The population grew from 75,000 in 1901 to 92,000 by 1931. The Great Depression and restructured fishing caused a sharp decline in employment. After that the population was fairly stable for the rest of the 20th century.


Second World War

The Royal Dock became the UK's largest base for
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s patrolling the
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. The Admiralty requisitioned numerous trawlers to serve the purpose of the Royal Naval Patrol Service. Often the crew was ex-trawlermen, alongside Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Navy volunteers. Trawlers used the winches and warps from fishing operations to tow a paravane with a cutting jaw through the water in what was known as a "sweep" to bring mines to the surface and allow for their removal. This hazardous work lost the Patrol Service more vessels than any other Royal Navy branch in the Second World War; 2,385 men died.Jimmy Brown, ''Harry Tate's Navy – One Man's Story of the Royal Naval Patrol Service,'' 1994 Grimsby's Royal Naval Patrol Service veterans financed a memorial beside the Dock Tower to ensure that the bravery and sacrifice of their comrades were not forgotten. On 14 June 1943, an early-morning air raid by the
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dropped several 1,000-kg bombs, 6,000 incendiary bombs and over 3,000 Butterfly Bombs in the Grimsby area, killing 99 people. In total, Second World War bombing raids in Grimsby and Cleethorpes killed 196, while another 184 were seriously injured. The Butterfly Bombs that littered the area hampered fire-fighting crews trying to reach locations damaged by incendiary bombs. The search for bodies continued for a month after the raid. is a Sandown class minehunter (commissioned in 1999) currently in service in the
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.


Post-Second World War

After the pressures placed on the industry during the
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and the
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's Common Fisheries Policy, which redistributed fishing quotas to other EU nations, many Grimsby firms decided to cease trawling operations there. The sudden demise of the industry brought an end to a way of life and community that had lasted for generations. The loss of the fishing industry brought severe economic and social problems for the town. Huge numbers became redundant, highly skilled in jobs that no longer existed, and struggled to find work ashore. As with the Ross Group, some firms concentrated on expanding industries within the town, such as food processing. Grimsby's trawling days are remembered through artefacts and permanent exhibits at the town's Fishing Heritage Centre. A preserved 1950s trawler, '' Ross Tiger,'' is located here. Few fishing vessels still operate from Grimsby's docks, but the town maintains a substantial fish market important in Europe. Grimsby was struck by an F1/T3 tornado on 23 November 1981, as part of a record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak that day. From the mid-1980s, the former Humber ferry PS ''Lincoln Castle'' has been moored in Alexandra Dock. She was used during this time as a pub\restaurant, but despite her design and status as Britain's last coal-fired paddle steamer, the catering no longer yielded a profit. The ship was broken up in 2010. Berthed in Alexandra Dock is the '' Ross Tiger'', the last survivor of what was once the world's largest fleet of sidewinder trawlers. The town was described in ''
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'' in 2001 as one "subjected to... many crude developments over the past 30-odd years" and a town which "seemingly shuns the notion of heritage." Redevelopment was planned as part of
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's Renaissance Towns Programme, but the scheme was abandoned in 2012. In the early 21st century, the town faced the challenges of a post-industrial economy on top of the decline in its fishing industry. The East Marsh ward of the town is the second most deprived in the country, according to government statistics.


Governance

Since the December 2019 general election, Lia Nici (
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) has been the Member of Parliament for the
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constituency, having won the seat from the former MP, Melanie Onn ( Labour), who had served since 2015. This lost the seat to the Labour Party for the first time in 74 years, not least under Austin Mitchell ( Labour), who held it from 1977 to 2015 Great Grimsby formed an ancient Borough in the
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In 1889 a County Council was created for Lindsey, but Great Grimsby was outside its area of control and formed an independent
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in 1891. The Borough expanded to absorb the adjacent hamlet of Wellow (1889), also the neighbouring parishes of Clee-with-Weelsby (1889), Little Coates (1928), Scartho (1928), Weelsby (1928) and
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(1968). It had its own police force until 1967 when it was merged into the Lincolnshire force. In 1974, the County Borough was abolished and Great Grimsby was reconstituted with the same boundaries as ''Grimsby'' non-metropolitan district in the new county of Humberside, under the Local Government Act 1972. The district was renamed ''Great Grimsby'' in 1979. In the early 1990s, area local government came under review from the Local Government Commission for England; Humberside was abolished in 1996. The former Great Grimsby district merged with that of Cleethorpes to form the unitary authority of North East Lincolnshire. The town does not have its own town council, instead just a board of Charter Trustees. In 2007, in the struggle for identity, it was suggested that the district be renamed ''Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes'', but this did not meet with favour among local residents, and the Council Leader dropped the idea a year later.


Council wards

North East Lincolnshire Council has eight Council wards within the area of Grimsby: *Freshney Ward *Heneage Ward *Scartho Ward *South Ward *East Marsh Ward *Park Ward *West Marsh Ward *Yarborough Ward


Economy

The main sectors of the economy are ports and logistics, food processing, specifically frozen foods and fish processing, chemicals and process industries and digital media. Cleethorpes to the east has a tourist industry. To the west along the Humber bank to Immingham, there has been large-scale industrial activity since the 1950s, around chemicals and from the 1990s gas-powered electricity generation.


Food industry

Grimsby is strongly linked with the sea fishing industry that once generated wealth for the town. At its peak in the 1950s, it was the largest and busiest fishing port in the world. The
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with
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, and the
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's Common Fisheries Policy sent this industry into decline for many years. In 1970 around 400 trawlers were based in the port, but by 2013 only five remained, while 15 vessels were being used to maintain offshore wind farms in the North Sea. The town still has the largest fish market in the UK, but most of what is sold is brought overland from other ports or from
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by
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. Of the 18,000 tonnes of fresh fish sold in Grimsby fish market in 2012, almost 13,000 tonnes, mainly cod and haddock, came from Iceland. Grimsby houses some 500 food-related companies, as one of the largest concentrations of such firms in Europe. The local council has promoted Grimsby as ''Europe's Food Town'' for nearly 20 years. In 1999, the BBC reported that more pizzas were produced than anywhere else in Europe, including Italy. Grimsby is recognised as the main centre of the UK fish-processing industry; 70 per cent of the UK's fish-processing industry is located there. In recent years, this expertise has led to diversification into all forms of frozen and chilled foods. It is one of the largest centres of fish processing in Europe. More than 100 local companies are involved in fresh and frozen fish production, the largest being the Findus Group (see
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), comprising Young's Seafood and Findus, with its corporate headquarters in the town. Young's is a major employer, with some 2,500 people based at its headquarters. From this base, Young's has a global sourcing operation supplying 60 species from 30 countries. Traditional Grimsby smoked fish was awarded a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) in 2009 by the European Union. The traditional process uses overnight cold smoking from sawdust in tall chimneys, roughly square and 10m high. Other major seafood companies include the Icelandic-owned ''Coldwater Seafood'', employing more than 700 across its sites in Grimsby; and ''Five Star Fish'', a supplier of fish products to the UK food market. The £5.6 million Humber Seafood Institute, the first of its kind in the UK, opened in 2008. Backed by Yorkshire Forward, North East Lincolnshire Council and the European Regional Development Fund, it is managed by the local council. Tenants include the Seafish Industry Authority and Grimsby Institute and University Centre. Greater Grimsby is a European centre of excellence in producing chilled prepared meals, and the area has Europe's largest concentration of cold-storage facilities.


Docks

The Port of Grimsby has been in use since the medieval period. The first enclosed dock, later known as the
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, was built in the 1790s by the Grimsby Haven Company. Major expansion came with the railways and construction of the
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in the 1840s. A Fish Dock was added in 1857, and the fish docks expanded over the next 80 years. The Old Dock was expanded to form Alexandra Dock in the 1880s. The Kasbah is a historic area between the Royal Dock and Fish Dock marked by a network of streets that remains home to many artisan fish-processing businesses. Fishing activities were reduced to a fraction of former levels in the second half of the 20th century. The current port has become a centre for car imports and exports, and since 1975 for general cargo. In the early 21st century, it has developed as a wind-farm maintenance base.


Retail

High-street shopping is grouped in central Grimsby between the railway and River Freshney, where Victoria Street acts as a central pedestrianised shopping street with an undercover Freshney Place centre to the north. Freshney Place is visited by 14 million shoppers a year and employs over 2,000 staff. The centre houses over 100 stores, including Marks and Spencer and House of Fraser. Constructed between 1967 and 1971 in a joint venture between the old ''Grimsby Borough Council'' and developers Hammerson's UK Ltd., it was known as the ''Riverhead Centre'' (so named as the development was adjacent to where the two local rivers, the Freshney and the Haven, meet). Hammerson's UK Ltd began a £100 million redevelopment of the retail centre, doubling it in size. The expanded centre was covered in a glass roof. Two multi-storey car parks were constructed at each end of the centre; with this development, the old ''Top Town'' area of Grimsby was effectively privatised and roofed over. Stores are serviced at the first floor by ramps at the western end, which can accommodate even large vehicles. The ramp also provides access to the car park on the roof of the indoor market, which is operated by the local council. Freshney Place won a design commendation in the Refurbishment Category of the 1993 BCSC awards. In the town centre Bethlehem and Osborne Street are also mixed in use, hosting retail, legal and service functions to the south of Victoria Street. Many local independent stores operate, several at the ''Abbeygate Centre'' off Bethlehem Street. Once the head office of local brewers ''Hewitt Brothers'', the building was renovated in the mid-1980s and now houses restaurants and designer clothing stores. The town has two markets, one next to Freshney Place and the other in
Freeman Street
' (B1213). This was a dominant shopping area with close ties to the docks, but industry and demographic changes have led it to struggle since the late 1970s. Previously the town centre area was rivalled by the Freeman Street shopping area, located closer to the docks. Freeman Street retains its covered market. Grimsby town centre has re-emerged in prominence as the docks declined and shops such as Marks and Spencer relocated to central Grimsby. Other developments near the town centre since the 1980s include the Alexandra Retail Park and Sainsbury's to the west of Alexandra Dock, an Asda store between the town centre and Freeman Street, and the Victoria Mills Retail Park off the Peaks Parkway A16, which has several chain stores, including
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(the second in the area. B&Q opened a large store off the Peaks Parkway to the east of the town centre. Unlike many towns where shopping has been built on the outskirts, these and similar developments were placed around Grimsby's town centre. This keeps shopping in a compact area, easier on pedestrians and public transport users. Some out-of-town development has taken place, with Morrisons building a store just outside the town in the parish of
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Renewable energy

Grimsby is beginning to develop as an energy centre. It already generates more electricity from renewable solar, wind, biomass and landfill gas than anywhere else in England. The town gains 28 per cent of the electricity it uses from green sources. Its proximity to the biggest cluster of offshore wind farms in Europe has brought around 1,500 jobs to the area, most of them in turbine maintenance.


Education

The numerous primary schools in Grimsby and coupled with secondary school which include Havelock Academy, Oasis Academy Wintringham and Ormiston Maritime Academy. Many Grimsby pupils attend secondary education in Cleethorpes, Healing, Humberston and Waltham, and further afield at Caistor Grammar.
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in Grimsby include St James' School and St Martin's Preparatory School. Franklin College is a sixth form college. The Grimsby Institute offers
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courses mostly for vocational purposes. Its business courses have attracted a sizeable number of Chinese students in recent years.


Transport

Grimsby lies from the nearest motorway, the M180, which continues as A180 into the town and acts as a link with the national motorway network. The town is skirted by the
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, with the A46 passing through to provide a connection towards
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, while the A16 links it to Louth and south and eastern Lincolnshire. The transport infrastructure was described in a report by the
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as strong and as a help to Grimsby's transition to a food-processing centre. It was once derided as being "on the road to nowhere" by the writer and critic A. A. Gill.


Buses

Grimsby's bus services are provided by
Stagecoach in Lincolnshire Stagecoach Lincolnshire is a bus company, formerly known as Lincolnshire RoadCar, which runs services throughout Lincolnshire. Stagecoach in Lincolnshire is the trading name of the Lincolnshire Road Car Company Limited, which is a subsidiary of ...
, which took over from ''Grimsby-Cleethorpes Transport'' (CGT) in 1993. This had been formed in 1957 by a merger of separate Grimsby and Cleethorpes transport undertakings. Stagecoach had all the buses resprayed to their standard livery to replace the color scheme of orange and white introduced in 1987. GCT ran a mixture of crewed and one-person operated services, but in 1982 the job of the conductor was abolished. In 2005, Stagecoach bought out ''Lincolnshire Road Car'', which served
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, Louth,
Barton-upon-Humber Barton-upon-Humber () or Barton is a town and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 11,066. It is situated on the south bank of the Humber Estuary at the southern end of the Humber Bridge. It is ...
and the Willows Estate. The company is now known as
Stagecoach in Lincolnshire Stagecoach Lincolnshire is a bus company, formerly known as Lincolnshire RoadCar, which runs services throughout Lincolnshire. Stagecoach in Lincolnshire is the trading name of the Lincolnshire Road Car Company Limited, which is a subsidiary of ...
. Joint ticketing began with '' Stagecoach Grimsby-Cleethorpes'' in May 2006. From September 2006, a new fleet of low-floor single-deckers was introduced, making the fleet an unprecedented 85 per cent low-floor. The main bus exchange in Grimsby is Riverhead Exchange.


Railways

Grimsby has rail links via Grimsby Town railway station and
Grimsby Docks railway station Grimsby Docks railway station serves the Freeman Street area of Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire, England. This is one of the oldest parts of the town, close to the Freeman Street Market and the town's docks both commercial and fish, the rail ...
. There is a
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in the centre of the town across ''Wellowgate''.
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provides direct trains to Manchester Airport via
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and
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, whilst East Midlands Railway operates services to
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, for buses to Hull, Northern has Saturday service to Sheffield via Brigg but it is temporarily suspended. The Leicester Via
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&
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are served by East Midlands Railway. The service to Cleethorpes runs at least hourly during the day along a single track, passing stations at Grimsby Docks and New Clee.


Erstwhile trams

Grimsby had two tramway networks: the ''
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'' and the ''
Grimsby & Immingham Electric Railway The Grimsby & Immingham Electric Railway (G&IER) was an electric light railway, primarily for passenger traffic, linking Great Grimsby with the Port of Immingham in Lincolnshire, England. The line was built by the Great Central Railway (GCR), ...
''. Grimsby Electric was a normal-gauge tramway opened in 1912 betwee
Corporation Bridge
at Grimsby and Immingham. There was no physical connection with the railway system. It provided passenger services between Grimsby and Immingham until it closed in 1961. It is claimed that once this was controlled by the corporation, it had more interest in supporting the motorbus service, now No. 45. Grimsby Light Railway opened in 1881 using horse-drawn trams. In 1901, these were replaced with electric tramways. In 1925 the Grimsby Transport Company bought the tramway company and in 1927 moved the depot to the Victoria Street Depot, an old sea plane hangar. This system closed in 1937. The depot continues to be used by Stagecoach, although the old Grimsby Tramways livery is still visible on the front of the building. Operating in the area until the 1950s was a network of electrically operated trolleybuses served by overhead power lines.


Airport

Humberside Airport is west of Grimsby and mainly caters for charter holidays. It is popular for general aviation, with five flying clubs based there.


Sport


Football

The local football team
Grimsby Town F.C. Grimsby Town Football Club is a professional football club based in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England, that in the 2022–23 season will compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system, following the victory in t ...
, nicknamed The Mariners, has played in League Two, the fourth tier of English football, since its promotion from the Vanarama National League in the 2021/22 season. Its ground is Blundell Park in Cleethorpes. It is the oldest professional football team in
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and one of the oldest in the country, being formed in 1878 as Grimsby Pelham, with a home ground on land off Ainslie Street. During the 1930s Grimsby Town played in the English First Division, then the highest level of the domestic game in England. It also appeared in two
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semi-finals in the 1930s: in 1936 (against Arsenal) and in 1939 (against Wolverhampton Wanderers). The latter semi-final was held at Old Trafford, Manchester, and the attendance (76,962) is still a record for the stadium. Grimsby Town was relegated on 7 May 2010 to the Football Conference, losing its status as a League club. It returned to the Football League after gaining promotion via the
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play-off final in 2016, beating
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3–1 at
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. The team reached the FA Cup quarter-finals in 1987 and in 1998 won the Auto Windscreens Shield and the second division play-off final. Notable former managers include Bill Shankly,
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and Alan Buckley. Blundell Park's Main Stand is the oldest in English professional football. It opened in 1899, although only the present foundations date from that time. There have been plans to relocate the club to a new stadium, including one at the side of Peaks Parkway in Grimsby. Grimsby Borough F.C. is a football club established in 2003 and based in Grimsby. It belongs to the Northern Counties East League Division One.


Other sports

An ice hockey club has been based in Grimsby since 1936. It has teams playing at various levels throughout the English Ice Hockey Association structure, under the name of Grimsby Red Wings. In 2009 the club added an ice sled hockey team to ensure that it was able to offer a fully inclusive sport for the NE Lincolnshire area. The amateur
Rugby Union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...
side, the Grimsby RUFC, and an amateur cricket side, the Grimsby Town
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Club, attract reasonable levels of support. The Grimsby Scorpions
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team operated until 2014 before relocating to Hull, where it merged with Hull's team as Humber Warhawks. Despite playing in another county the club maintains representation of both East Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire. Tennis teams from local clubs have been successful in various inter-county competitions. The Men's Team from
Grimsby Tennis Centre Grimsby Tennis Centre is a tennis club in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. It was founded by members of the Welholme Methodist Church on grass courts in Welholme Road, Grimsby. In order to protect the membership from personal liability the club was f ...
won the Lincolnshire Doubles League in 2005. Tennis players from the town represent the county on a regular basis at all age levels. Grimsby Tennis Centre underwent a major redevelopment of facilities in 2005 and is now wholly accessible to the disabled. The town had one of the largest table tennis leagues in the country, with over 120 teams competing in the 1970s, but like the game of
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, the sport has declined in the town during recent years.


Culture and attractions


Entertainment

Before the late 1960s many public houses in the area were owned by the local brewer Hewitt Brothers and had a distinctive local touch, but it was taken over in 1969 by the brewer Bass-Charrington. The pubs have been re-badged many times, closed or sold off. '' The Barge Inn'' is a former grain barge converted into a pub/restaurant. It has been moored at the Riverhead quay since 1982. Musical entertainment is provided at the Grimsby Auditorium, built in 1995 in Cromwell Road, Yarborough, near Grimsby Leisure Centre. The smaller Caxton Theatre is in Cleethorpe Road (A180) in East Marsh, near the docks. The Caxton Theatre provides entertainment by adults and youths in theatre. Notable in the area is the Class Act Theatre Company run by the local playwright David Wrightam. North East Lincolnshire Council has installed a Wi-Fi network covering Victoria Street in central Grimsby. The service gives access to the Internet to the general public on a yearly subscription. Grimsby's Freeman Street cinema closed in 2004, leaving the Parkway cinema in Cleethorpes to serve the town. Periodic plans to build a new cinema in Grimsby have been made since. The Whitgift Film Theatre in John Whitgift Academy shows a programme of limited release and art-house films.


Places of interest and landmarks

* Corporation Bridge *Fisherman's Memorial * Grimsby Docks * Grimsby Dock Tower * Grimsby Ice Factory – built in 1898–1901 to provide crushed ice to preserve fish stored in ships at Grimsby's seaport * Grimsby Institute * Grimsby Marina * Grimsby Minster * Grimsby Town Hall * Humber Forts * National Fishing Heritage Centre * Waltham Windmill * Weelsby Woods Grimsby is the site of a Blue Cross Animal Hospital, one of only four in the country, the other three being in London. Previously in Cleethorpe Road, the Grimsby hospital moved in 2005 to a new building, Coco Markus House, in Nelson Street.


Media

The ''
Grimsby Telegraph The ''Grimsby Telegraph'' is a daily British regional newspaper for the town of Grimsby and the surrounding area that makes up North East Lincolnshire including the rural towns of Market Rasen and Louth. The main area for the paper's distributi ...
'', had an audited circulation of 14,344 copies in 2017. It is based in Heritage House near the Fishing Heritage Centre. The local radio stations are
BBC Radio Humberside BBC Radio Humberside is the BBC's local radio station serving East Yorkshire and North & North East Lincolnshire. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Queen's Gardens in Hull. According to RAJAR, the statio ...
,
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, Viking FM and the exclusively North East Lincolnshire-based Compass FM, which ceased to be local in 2020, to be rebranded as Greatest Hits Radio Grimsby.The transmitter for Greatest Hits Radio Grimsby and EMAP Humberside (Lincs FM DAB) is on top of
block of flats
in East Marsh. Terrestrial television coverage based in the area comes from
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and
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, which has a news broadcast based in Immingham. That's TV Humberside (formerly Estuary TV and Channel 7 Television) broadcast on Freeview channel 8 and on
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channel 159.


Popular culture

* Bernie Taupin, who lived in Humberston and Tealby (near
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) when in his teens, wrote the lyrics to Elton John's 1974 song, " Grimsby", which is included in John's album '' Caribou''. *The town has featured as a film location: Scartho Hospital (now Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital), and the Scartho Cemetery entrance, were used in the 1985 film ''
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''. The 2006 film, '' This Is England'' was partly set and filmed in Grimsby and other East Midland locations such as Nottingham. * ''Grimsby'' is an action-comedy film starring
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and Mark Strong, released by
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in February 2016. No scenes for it were actually shot in the town; they were filmed instead in
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, Essex. *The town was the setting for a second series of the Channel 4 documentary '' Skint'' in 2014, following families and individuals undergoing the "devastating effects of long-term unemployment". *The
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animated series '' The Rubbish World of Dave Spud'' takes place in a fictionalised version of Grimsby. The tower block the Spud family live in was modelled after the former high-rise flats on East Marsh.


Flooding

The Environment Agency has awarded
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-based telemetry company CSE Seprol a contract to supply flood-warning devices for risk areas in East Anglia. The 18 sirens, at various locations round the flood-risk area of Grimsby and Cleethorpes, should reach 25,500 households to warn of flood danger. They will be sounded only in the event of the Environment Agency issuing a severe flood warning for tidal flooding, or if it is likely the sea defences will be breached. The sirens make various sounds, from the traditional wail to a voice message.


Notable people

Listed in alphabetical order (Grimbarians were mainly born at the former Grimsby Maternity Hospital in Nunsthorpe, Grimsby. Many were born at the defunct Croft Baker Maternity Hospital in nearby Cleethorpes. Those born and/or brought up nearby include: * Herbert Ayre (1882–1966), footballer * Richard Bennett (born 1954), a cricketer who played for New Zealand *
Shirley Bloomer Shirley Brasher (née Bloomer; born 13 June 1934) is a former tennis player from England who won three Grand Slam titles during her career and who was the top-ranked singles player in her country in 1957. Early life She attended Cleethorpes Gir ...
(born 1934), winner of the French Open Singles and Doubles titles in 1957 and the French Open Mixed title in 1958 * Jack Braughton (1921–2016), a long-distance runner who represented Britain in the Olympics *
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(born 1951), Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and President of the American Physiological Society * Richard Buck (born 1986), a sprinter in the 400 meters event, represented Britain in the World and European Championships. * Maxine Carr (born 1977), teaching assistant and partner of
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, convicted of perverting the course of justice in the
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case *
Stuart Carrington Stuart Carrington (born 14 May 1990) is an English professional snooker player. He practises frequently with Steven Hallworth and Ian Glover in Grimsby. In May 2011, Carrington qualified for the 2011–12 professional Main Tour as one of four ...
(born 1990), snooker player *
Joanne Clifton Joanne Kirsty Clifton (born 24 October 1983) is an English professional dancer, presenter, actress, and singer. She won the World Ballroom Showdance Championship in 2014, and won the European Professional Ballroom Championship and World Dancespor ...
(born 1983), professional dancer on the
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's Strictly Come Dancing as of 2014 * Kevin Clifton (born 1982), professional dancer on the
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's Strictly Come Dancing alongside his sister Joanne (above) * Holly Clyburn (born 1991), professional golfer, plays on the Ladies European Tour. Winning member of Great Britain
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team of 2012 * Quentin Cooper, presenter of Radio 4's '' Material World'' and film correspondent for BBC Radio 2, grew up in the town, attending Wintringham School. *
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(born 1939), Conservative politician and MP, later the life peer Baron Cormack * Peter Crampton (born 1969), Olympic
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runner for
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*
Peter "Mars" Cowling Peter "Mars" Cowling (May 26, 1946 – March 20, 2018) was an English bass guitarist, best known for his work with Canadian blues rock guitarist Pat Travers. Cowling for many years lived in Grimsby where, in 1962, he formed The Syndicate with ...
(1946–2018), longstanding bass player in the
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Band * Steve Currie (1947–1981) bass player and long-term member of the English glam rock band T. Rex * Keeley Donovan, weather presenter for
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*
Michele Dotrice Michele Dotrice (born 27 September 1948) is an English actress. She portrayed Betty Spencer, the long-suffering wife of Frank Spencer, portrayed by Michael Crawford, in the BBC sitcom ''Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em'', which ran from 1973 to 1978, ...
(born 1948), actor playing Betty Spencer in the 1970s comedy ''
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'' * Arthur Drewry (1891–1961), football administrator and businessman, chaired
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, and later the Football League, the Football Association and FIFA. * Kevin Drinkell (born 1960), football manager and former player for
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, Rangers and
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* Ray Edmonds (born 1936), professional billiards player, was the World Professional Billiards Champion of 1985. * John Fenty (born 1961), owner of Grimsby Town Football Club and local councillor * Brenda Fisher (1927-2022), cross-Channel and long-distance swimmer"Brenda Ready To Swim Anything Provided It's Made Worthwhile"
; ''
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"Brenda Fisher"
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*
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, newsreader for Sky News and Five News * Tony Ford, footballer holding the all-time record for matches played in the English league by an outfield player, notably for
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, Stoke City and
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* Lee Freeman, Chief Constable of Humberside Police 2017– * Freddie Frinton (1909–1968), comedian, actor in the 1960s BBC comedy '' Meet the Wife'' *
Freddie Frith Frederick Lee Frith OBE (30 May 1909 – 24 May 1988 Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England) was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion. A former stonemason and later a motor cycle retailer in Grimsby, he was a stylish rider an ...
(1909-1988), former Grand Prix motorcycle racing world champion * Lisa George (born 1970), actress, '' Coronation Street,
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'' and contestant on Dancing on Ice * Phil Gladwin (born 1963), television screenwriter, '' Warriors of Kudlak' * Phil Glew (born 1983), racing driver in
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, now commentator for
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'' * Edmund de Grimsby, judge and clergyman, was born in Grimsby and probably died here in 1354. *
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(born 1980), bass guitarist in rock group ''
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,'' and co-founder of synth-wave trio '' Gunship (band), was born and brought up in the town. *
Mike Hallett Mike Hallett (born 6 July 1959) is an English former professional snooker player and commentator. Career Hallett was born in Grimsby on 6 July 1959. Having won the national under-16 title in 1975, he turned professional in 1979. His world ran ...
(born 1959), snooker player and commentator for
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* Kate Haywood (born 1987), a swimmer who competed for Britain and Olympics and England at the Commonwealth level *
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(born 1981), first-class cricketer * John Heath (born 1978), first-class cricketer *
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(born 1946), actor: '' Miranda,'' '' Rumpole of the Bailey'' and '' Jemima Shore Investigates.'' Her parents managed the Royal Hotel in the town. She attended Wintringham School. *
Ian Huntley The Soham murders were a double child murder committed in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England on 4 August 2002. The victims were two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Aimee Chapman, who were lured into the home of a local resident an ...
(born 1974), Soham double child murderer, was born at Grimsby and lived there until the late 1990s. * Keith Jobling (1934–2020), professional footballer with 450 games for
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player and coach, notably a quarterback for West Virginia University * Amy Monkhouse (born 1979) lawn bowler * Darren Pattinson (born 1978), England Test cricketer born in Grimsby * Michael Pearce (born 1965), an artist born in Grimsby * Julie Peasgood (born 1956), actor, Fran in the soap opera ''
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er * Matthew Stiff (born 1979), opera singer * Rod Temperton (1949–2016), songwriter, record producer and musician. Born and raised in Cleethorpes, worked as a fish filleter at Ross Frozen Foods, Grimsby, prior to success. * Thomas Turgoose (born 1992), actor notably in This is England and Game of Thrones * David Tarttelin (born 1929), painter * Ivy Wallace (1915–2006), children's writer and artist * John Whitgift (1530–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury under Queen Elizabeth I *
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(1898–1949, communist politician and military historian * Patrick Wymark (1926–1970), actor. Wymark View was named after him. People with Grimsby connections: * Hollie Arnold (born 1994) Paralympian athlete who won Gold in the F46 javelin at the 2016 games. Was a contestant on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. She grew up in the neighbouring village of Holton-le-Clay. * Harold Gosney (born 1937), artist and sculptor, taught at Grimsby School of Art 1960–1992 and created sculptures sited around Grimsby. * Ella Henderson (born 1996), singer, songwriter and former contestant on
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(born 1942), Conservative MP and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, was brought up in the town. * Andrew Osmond (1938-1999), Diplomat and co-founder of Private Eye grew up in neighbouring village of Barnoldby-le-Beck * David Ross, businessman, co-founder of
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was brought up in the town. * Ernest Worrall (1898–1972), painter known for depicting Grimsby in the Second World War, lived there from 1932 until the 1960s.


Twin cities

Grimsby's
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include: *Tromsø, Norway, since 1961 *Bremerhaven, Germany, since February 1963 *Banjul, The Gambia *Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Dieppe, France *Akureyri, Iceland. In 2007, a friendship and fisheries agreement was signed with Akureyri which according to Ice News, might lead to a twin cities designation in the future. As a port with trading ties to Continental Europe, the Nordic nations and Baltic Europe, the town houses Consul (representative)#Honorary consul, honorary consulates of Denmark, Iceland, and Norway. Swedish and Finnish honorary consulates are located in Immingham, and that of Germany at Barrow-upon-Humber. The people of Norway have sent a tree to the town of Grimsby every Christmas since the end of the Second World War. The Norwegian city of Trondheim sent a tree for 40 years until 2003, since when the tree has been donated by the northern Norwegian town of Sortland and placed in the town's Riverhead Square. During redevelopment of Riverhead Square the tree has been placed in the Old Market Place since 2013.


See also

*Grimsby class sloops, in service from the 1930s until 1966. *St Mary's Church, Grimsby *List of mayors of Grimsby


References


External links

* * * {{Authority control Grimsby, Towns in Lincolnshire Populated places established in the 9th century Ports and harbours of Lincolnshire Ports and harbours of the Humber Port cities and towns of the North Sea Port cities and towns in Yorkshire and the Humber Populated coastal places in Lincolnshire Fishing communities in England Unparished areas in Lincolnshire Borough of North East Lincolnshire