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The DN postcode area, also known as the Doncaster postcode area[1], is a group of postal districts around Barnetby, Barrow upon Humber, Barton-upon-Humber, Brigg, Cleethorpes, Doncaster, Gainsborough, Goole, Grimsby, Immingham, Retford, Scunthorpe and Ulceby in England. ...
The DN postcode area, also known as the Doncaster postcode area[1], is a group of postal districts around Barnetby, Barrow upon Humber, Barton-upon-Humber, Brigg, Cleethorpes, Doncaster, Gainsborough, Goole, Grimsby, Immingham, Retford, Scunthorpe and Ulceby in England. ...
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Grimsby (or archaically Great Grimsby) is a seaport on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England. It has been the administrative centre of the unitary authority area of North East Lincolnshire since 1996. According to legend, Grimsby was first founded by Grim, a Danish fisherman. 'By' means 'village' in Old Norse and 'city' or 'town' in the modern Danish language. The town was previously titled "Great Grimsby" to distinguish it from Little Grimsby, a village about 14 miles (22 km) to the south, near Louth. People from Grimsby are called Grimbarians.[1] In language, an archaism is the deliberate use of an older form that has fallen out of current use. ...
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North East Lincolnshire is a unitary authority in the north east of England, bordering onto North Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire. ...
Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ...
Danish (dansk) is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavi languages), a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. ...
Brackenborough with Little Grimsby is a civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. ...
, Louth is a market town within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. ...
The town itself has a population of around 87,589. It is physically linked to the adjoining town of Cleethorpes, and 11,000 of its inhabitants live in the village of Scartho which was absorbed into Grimsby before laws on the Green Belt were put in place. All three areas come under the jurisdiction of the same council, North East Lincolnshire. It is close to the main terminus of the A180, which ends in Cleethorpes. January 22 is Great Grimsby Day[1]. For other uses, see Cleethorpes (disambiguation). ...
Scartho Village is a suburb located in the southern part of Grimsby, England, in the county of North East Lincolnshire. ...
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History
Vikings Grimsby was founded by the Danes in the 9th century AD, although there is some evidence of a small town of Roman workers sited in the area some seven centuries earlier. Located on The Haven, which flowed into the Humber, Grimsby would have provided an ideal location for ships to shelter from approaching storms. It was also well situated for the rich fishing grounds in the North Sea. The Danish nation is a concept closely connected to 19th century ethnic nationalism. ...
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The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ...
The name Grimsby probably originated from the Grim's by, or "Grim's Village". This is based on Grim the Danish Viking, supposedly the founder of the town, with the suffix -by being the Old Norse word for village. For more on the legendary founding of Grimsby see the Lay of Havelock the Dane. This is only one explanation of the founding of Grimsby, and is completely unsupported, being a legend. Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ...
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Grimsby is listed in the Domesday Book, having a population of around 200, a priest, a mill and a ferry (probably to take people across the Humber, to Hull. It also appears in the Orkneyinga Saga in the phrase í grims bæ mithivm ‘in the middle of Grimsby’. During the 12th century, it developed into a fishing and trading port, at one point ranking twelfth in importance to the Crown in terms of tax revenue. The town was granted its charter by King John in 1201 The first mayor was installed in 1218. A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ...
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Hull or Kingston upon Hull is a British city situated on the north bank of the Humber estuary. ...
The Orkneyinga saga (also called the History of the Earls of Orkney) is an unique historical narrative of the history of the Orkney Islands from their capture by the Norwegian king in the 9th century onwards until about 1200 AD. The saga was written around 1200 AD by an unknown...
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Grimsby does not have town walls. It was too small and was protected by the marshy land around it. However, the town did have a ditch. In medieval times, Grimsby had two parish churches, St Mary's and St James'. Only St James' now remains. Gabriel delivering the Annunciation to Mary. ...
Saint James can refer to the following: Several men mentioned in the New Testament, whose various epithets and euphemisms cause some uncertainties: James, son of Zebedee, an apostle, brother of John the Apostle; also called Saint James the Great. ...
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 which lasted until the late 18th century. In 1801 , the population of Grimsby numbered 1,524, around the same size that it had been in the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...
Fishing and maritime industry In the early 19th century, the town grew rapidly. The Great 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". Grimsby's port boomed, importing iron, timber, wheat, hemp and flax. New docks were necessary to cope with the expansion. The Grimsby Docks Act of 1845 allowed the necessary building works.
 Alexandra Docks and National Fishing Heritage Museum 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 followed in 1879. During this period the fishing fleet was greatly expanded. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1215, 185 KB) Summary Alexandra Docks and National Fishing Heritage Museum, Grimsby. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1215, 185 KB) Summary Alexandra Docks and National Fishing Heritage Museum, Grimsby. ...
The Dock Tower is a 309-foot tall tower in Great Grimsby, England. ...
The arrival of the railway in 1848 made it far easier to transport goods to and from the port. Coal mined in the South Yorkshire coal fields was brought by rail and exported through Grimsby. The population of Grimsby grew from 75,000 in 1901 to 92,000 by 1931 but then remained fairly static for the rest of the 20th century. [2]
The former Humber ferry, PS Lincoln Castle, is moored in Alexandra Dock. Also in the dock is the Ross Tiger, a trawler which can be toured in the summer as part of the Fishing Heritage centre.
World War II During World War II, Grimsby's status as a major port made it a focus of the German Luftwaffe.[citation needed] They used the Dock Tower as a landmark and refused to bomb it (the British Government discussed its' demolition to prevent its use as a navigational aid).[citation needed] It was later revealed that had the German invasion been successful Grimsby would have been one of the first landing points in the north of England due to the combination of its location and its infrastructure.[citation needed] This was probably one reason why the town suffered significantly less bombing raids than neighbouring fishing port Hull whose geographical location would have made it harder to reach. However, Grimsby was still hit by numerous air raids during the war and 197 people were killed. Grimsby was also the first place in Great Britain to have the Butterfly Bomb used against it by the Luftwaffe in 1943, devastating many areas[citation needed]. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
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The Dock Tower is a 309-foot tall tower in Great Grimsby, England. ...
Hull or Kingston upon Hull is a British city situated on the north bank of the Humber estuary. ...
A Butterfly Bomb, or (Spreng Dickwändig 2 kg or SD2) was a German 2 kilogram anti-personnel bomb dropped by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War. ...
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The Royal Dock was used as the UK's largest base for minesweepers, to patrol the North Sea. Minesweepers are military vessels using deep-sea trawling methods. There is a memorial next to the dock. USS Pivot (AM 276) World War II United States Admirable Class Minesweeper shown in the Gulf of Mexico on sea trials 12 July 1944 Image:Hameln Class. ...
The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ...
In reference to modern-day minesweeping, HMS Grimsby is a Sandown class minehunter (commissioned in 1999) currently in service in the Royal Navy. HMS Grimsby is a Sandown class minehunter of the Royal Navy. ...
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Naval mine clearance was originally done by whatever type of vessel could easily be adapted to the task, paddle steamers proving particularly suitable due to their shallow draught. ...
Local government Great Grimsby formed an ancient Borough in the North Riding of Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey.[2] It was reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 and became a Municipal Borough in that year.[3] In 1889 a County Council was created for Lindsey, but Great Grimsby was outside its area of control and formed an independent County Borough in 1891.[3] 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 Great Coates (1968). It had its own police force until 1967 when it merged with the Lincolnshire force.[4] A borough is a political division originally used in England. ...
County borough was a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom to refer to a borough or a city independent of county administration. ...
North East Lincolnshire is a unitary authority in the north east of England, bordering onto North Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire. ...
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The North Riding of Lindsey was a division of the Lindsey part of Lincolnshire in England. ...
Lindsey was a unit of local government until 1974 in Lincolnshire, England, covering the northern part of the county. ...
The Municipal Reform Act 1835 required members of town councils (municipal corporations) to be elected by ratepayers and councils to publish their financial accounts. ...
County borough was a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom to refer to a borough or a city independent of county administration. ...
Old Clee is located in the Clee Road (A46) and Carr Lane area of eastern Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England and adjoins the neighbouring town of Cleethorpes, with which it has historic links. ...
Little Coates is an area of western Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. ...
Scartho Village is a suburb located in the southern part of Grimsby, England, in the county of North East Lincolnshire. ...
Weelsby is located in the Weelsby Road area of eastern Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. ...
Great Coates is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. ...
In 1974, the County Borough was abolished[3] and Great Grimsby was reconstituted (with the same boundaries) as the Grimsby non-metropolitan district in the new county of Humberside by the Local Government Act 1972. The district was renamed Great Grimsby in 1979. Local government in the area came under the review of the Local Government Commission for England and Humberside was abolished in 1996. The former area of the Great Grimsby district merged with that of Cleethorpes to form the unitary authority of North East Lincolnshire.[5] The town does not have its own town council, instead there is a board of Charter Trustees. During 2007, in the struggle for identity, it was suggested that the district could be renamed to something like Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes to give a stronger indication of the towns the district consists of. This didn't meet with favourable comment among local residents, and the Council Leader dropped the idea a year later[6] East Yorkshire Holderness Kingston upon Hull Beverley Boothferry Scunthorpe Glanford Great Grimsby Cleethorpes The Arms of Humberside County Council Humberside was a non-metropolitan county of England from April 1, 1974 until April 1, 1996. ...
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Cleethorpes was a local government district and borough in Humberside, England from 1974 to 1996. ...
North East Lincolnshire is a unitary authority in the north east of England, bordering onto North Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire. ...
In the United Kingdom, Charter Trustees are set up to maintain the continuity of a town charter or city charter after a district with the status of a borough or city has been abolished, until such time as a parish council is established. ...
Economy and manufacturing
Frozen food Grimsby is indelibly linked with the sea fishing industry, which once gave the town much of its wealth. At its peak in the 1950s, it was the largest and busiest fishing port in the world.[citation needed] However as a result of the Cod Wars with Iceland this industry has been in decline for many years. It is still home to the largest fish market in the UK although most of what is sold is now brought overland from other ports or Iceland via containerisation. The Cod Wars (also called the Iceland Cod Wars) were a series of confrontations between the United Kingdom and Iceland over Icelands claims of authority over tracts of ocean off their coastline as being their exclusive fishery zone. ...
Containers in the port of Kotka (Finland) on the Baltic Sea. ...
In recent years the frozen food industry has become a large part of Grimsby's economy and new industries such as light engineering, chemicals and plastics have grown. Grimsby held the record at one time for the largest 'Cold Store' in the UK and it was in Grimsby that the UK's first 'fish finger' food was produced in 1955. Birds Eye closed their frozen ready meal factory in 2005, ending a link with the town that stretched back 50 years. The said factory has since been demolished, following a fire which gutted the building and almost totally destroyed it itself. Arson is suspected. 70% of the fish sold at the town's market is now imported from outside the United Kingdom, particularly Iceland.[7] Frozen food is food preserved by the process of freezing. ...
Birds Eye is a company which operates in the UK making and selling frozen fish, meat and vegetables. ...
Grimsby is colloquially known as UK Food Town,[8] previously known as Europe's Food Town. It is said that more pizzas are produced in Grimsby than anywhere else.[9]
The food production and seafood heritage links are perpetuated in a UK 2006 Young's Seafood television advertising campaign emphasising Grimsby as the source of its seafood products. In the campaign, Grimsby Docks are briefly shown, at dusk, lit and shot somewhat romantically. In 2008 this was followed up by further commercials paying reference to the town and its main industry as the company launched a range of Great Grimsby fish-based frozen meals. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Main employers Some of the largest employers in the area are the pharmaceutical giant Novartis (since 1951 making pharmaceuticals at its factory and employs about 400 people) at Pyewipe close to the A180, chemical producer Tioxide Europe (making Titanium dioxide white pigments) on Moody Lane with its landmark chimney, and food processor Young's Bluecrest Seafood next to the docks on Wickham Road. A significant number of locals are employed at the refineries located at nearby Immingham and in associated industries. Novartis headquarters in Basel Suffern, New York: the sole Novartis pharmaceutical production facility in the United States. ...
Huntsman Corporation NYSE: HUN is one of the worlds largest chemical companies. ...
Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium(IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2. ...
Natural Ultramarine pigment in powdered form. ...
Immingham (informally referred to as Ming or Ming Ming) is a town in North East Lincolnshire, located on south bank of the Humber Estuary. ...
The port partnership of Grimsby & Immingham is the largest port in the UK in terms of tonnage, with a total traffic of 57 million tonnes, 10% of the total, in 2006. Alexandra Dock is used to import cars. The Royal Dock imports food, such as fish. This article is about the metric tonne. ...
Flood sirens The Environment Agency has awarded Sheffield-based telemetry company CSE Seprol a contract to supply flood warning devices for risk areas in East Anglia. CSE Seprol provides outstations that control the risk area's flood warning sirens to alert local people of impending severe flooding. The control and monitoring of the sirens is linked by a Seprol S250 telemetry outstation to the Environment Agency's Regional telemetry system. (see also the List of environmental organizations) The Environment Agency (Welsh: Asiantaeth yr Amgylchedd) of England and Wales was created by the Environment Act 1995, along with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. ...
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Norfolk and Suffolk, the core area of East Anglia. ...
The 18 sirens, at various locations around the flood risk area of Grimsby and Cleethorpes, should reach 25,500 households to warn them of portending floods. The sirens will only be sounded in the event of the Environment Agency issuing a severe flood warning for tidal flooding or if there is a likelihood of the sea defences being breached. The sirens make a variety of sounds, from the traditional wailing sound to a voice message. The alarms are said to sound like World War II air raid sirens, with an 'all clear' system in place. Flooding near Key West, Florida, United States from Hurricane Wilmas storm surge in October 2005 For other uses, see Flood (disambiguation). ...
(see also the List of environmental organizations) The Environment Agency (Welsh: Asiantaeth yr Amgylchedd) of England and Wales was created by the Environment Act 1995, along with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. ...
Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
Strategic bombing is a military strategem used in a total war style campaign that attempts to destroy the economic ability of a nation-state to wage war. ...
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In the event of flood siren activation, which can give up to six hours notice of pending floods, residents are advised to go indoors and listen to local radio stations BBC Radio Humberside or Viking FM. BBC Radio Humberside is a BBC Local Radio service covering the area of the former English county of Humberside, which was returned to North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire the East Riding of Yorkshire and the City of Kingston upon Hull on April 1, 1996. ...
Viking FM is a commercial radio station which has broadcast music and local information to the East Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North-East Lincolnshire counties of England since 1984. ...
Testing of the sirens takes place annually on 26 October, and residents are not required to take any action. is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Places of interest and landmarks Grimsby Dock Tower. ...
National Fishing Heritage Centre Alexandra Dock Grimsby DN31 1UZ 01472 323345 Opened in 1991 the Fishing Heritage Centre depicts the 1950s hey day of the distant waters fleet. ...
West Marsh is an area located in the northern part of Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England, lying close to the town centre. ...
The Corporation Bridge in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire is a lifting bridge in the towns former fish docks. ...
Weelsby Woods Early Summer. ...
The Humber Forts are two large fortifications in the mouth of the river Humber in northern England: Haile Sand Fort and Bull Sands Fort. ...
Waltham Windmill Waltham Windmill is a six-sailed windmill located in the village of Waltham, five miles from Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire. ...
Grimsby Parish Church is a church in Grimsby, England. ...
The Grimbsy Institute of Further & Higher Education (often Grimsby Institute, formerly Grimsby College) is a college in North East Lincolnshire, England. ...
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent...
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Education Up to the age of 16, the results in recent years for Grimsby have not been particularly good, being one of the worst areas in England. However, two schools nearby, outside of Grimsby, in New Waltham (Toll Bar Business & Enterprise College) and Healing do quite well, performing notably better than all other schools in the Borough. Past the age of 16, for A-level education, Grimsby's Franklin College gets excellent results (as does the Toll Bar College). The Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education, which is located near to Franklin College, operates mainly to educate vocational students and achieves respectable examination results at all levels of adult education. The Institute has attracted a large number of foreign students from China to business studies courses in recent years following on from a tradition which saw many students from overseas taking courses connected with the fishing industry. It has also experimented with local television - Channel 7 Television. New Waltham is a village in North East Lincolnshire. ...
Healing is a village located near Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire, England. ...
Franklin College is a sixth form college on Chelmsford Avenue in Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire. ...
The Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education (often Grimsby Institute, formerly Grimsby College) is a college in North East Lincolnshire, England. ...
Shopping facilities The award-winning Freshney Place Shopping Centre[10] in the heart of the town boasts over 70 stores including Marks and Spencer, Binns (House of Fraser) and BHS. It was originally constructed between 1967 and 1971 in a joint venture between the old Grimsby Borough Council and developers Hammerson's UK Ltd. and 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). Victoria Street is the main shopping street. Marks and Spencer plc (known also as M&S and sometimes colloquially as Marks and Sparks) is the largest retailer in the United Kingdom by sales. ...
House of Fraser is a British department store group with 61 stores (July 2007) across the UK and Ireland. ...
For other uses of the abbreviation, see BHS Bhs (also trading as British Home Stores and formerly BHS and BhS) is a stalwart department store of the British High Street, selling clothing and household items (such as bedlinen, cutlery, crockery and lighting). ...
Hammerson plc (LSE: HMSO) is a major British property development and investment company. ...
The River Freshney is a river in North East Lincolnshire. ...
The Riverhead Centre development caused some controversy at the time as it followed the 1960s trend of replacing old architecture with new; in this case it involved the wholesale demolition of much of the old town centre including the historic Bull Ring (which is now where Wilkinson's, the Halifax Bank and the St James Hotel are based) and streets going back many centuries including Flottergate, Brewery Street and East St Mary's Gate. Wilkinson (or Wilko, as it is known colloquially) is a British high-street hardware store. ...
The Halifax bank (then Halifax plc) was created in the mid-1990s when the Halifax Building Society was demutualised and shares were sold on the London Stock Exchange. ...
In 1990 the council agreed to sell the area around the shopping centre, used for surface car parking, to Hammerson's UK Ltd.. The development owner and Humberside County Council, the highway authority at that time, agreed to the sale of the area of Baxtergate, the road which ran to the rear of the shopping centre, between the shopping centre and the surface car park. Baxtergate was relocated alongside the River Freshney and became phase one of the Peaks Parkway. Hammerson's UK Ltd. began a £100 million redevelopment of the site which saw it double in size. The centre was also covered in a glass roof and (where the new extension was built) two multi-storey car parks were constructed at each end of the centre, effectively privatising, roofing and enclosing the old Top Town area of Grimsby. Servicing to the stores was made available from a first floor service area, accessible by even large vehicles, using a ramp at the western end. The ramp also provided access to the car park on the roof of the indoor market which is operated by the local council. In recognition of the design of the new facilities, the Royal Town Planning Institute awarded the scheme a commendation in 1992. Hammerson plc (LSE: HMSO) is a major British property development and investment company. ...
East Yorkshire Holderness Kingston upon Hull Beverley Boothferry Scunthorpe Glanford Great Grimsby Cleethorpes Humberside was a non-metropolitan county of England from April 1, 1974 until April 1, 1996. ...
The Peaks Parkway located in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire was conceived in the 1970s when the former Grimsby to Louth railway line fell into disuse. ...
Hammerson plc (LSE: HMSO) is a major British property development and investment company. ...
Other developments near the town centre include a new Tesco Extra (the second in the area), the Victoria Mills Retail Park which is home to several chain stores including Next and a B&Q Depot off the Peaks Parkway A16. This article refers to Tesco PLC - the international retailer headquartered in the UK, see also Tesco (Disambiguation). ...
Next on Oxford Street Next PLC is a British clothes retailer, with its headquarters in Enderby, Leicestershire, England. ...
B&Q is a British retailer of DIY and home improvement tools and supplies. ...
The Peaks Parkway located in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire was conceived in the 1970s when the former Grimsby to Louth railway line fell into disuse. ...
Unlike many other towns who have shopping facilities on their outskirts, these (and other similar developments) can be found in and around Grimsby's town centre, making shopping far easier for pedestrians and public transport users, reflecting Grimsby's relatively cheap central commercial land. Other major retailers include the supermarket chains Tesco, Marks & Spencers, Sainsbury's, ASDA on Holles Street and Morrison's. The Morrison's store is located just outside the town boundary, in the parish of Laceby, and is peculiarly known as Morrison's Cleethorpes. This is an anomaly arising from when the area was part of the now defunct Cleethorpes Borough. Most major supermarket's in the town have expanded somewhat in the last few years, including a massive extension built at ASDA, and more recently another floor was built at Tesco at Hewitts Circus. Trade is going from strength to strength. Packaged food aisles in a Fred Meyer store in Portland, Oregon A supermarket is a departmentalized self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise. ...
, For other uses, see Tesco (disambiguation). ...
Marks & Spencer plc (known also as M&S or Your M&S and sometimes colloquially as Marks and Sparks or Marks) is a British retailer. ...
This article is about the supermarket business. ...
For other uses, see ASDA (disambiguation). ...
Morrisons store in Morecambe, Lancashire Morrisons is the 4th largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. ...
Morrisons store in Morecambe, Lancashire Morrisons is the 4th largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. ...
Laceby is a village in North East Lincolnshire, located on the A46 road just outside the western boundary of Grimsby. ...
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Packaged food aisles in a Fred Meyer store in Portland, Oregon A supermarket is a departmentalized self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise. ...
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There are also a number of local, independent specialist stores and the Abbeygate Centre (off Bethlehem Street) is where many are located. Abbeygate Centre has been dubbed "Little Town" by locals. Once the head office of local brewers Hewitt Brothers it was renovated in the mid-1980s and is home to a number of restaurants and designer clothing stores. The town also has two markets, one next to Freshney Place and the other in Freeman Street (B1213), itself once a dominant shopping area in the town with close connections to the docks but one that has sadly struggled since the late 1970s when the fishing industry declined.
In March 2007, Henry Boot properties announced a new £30m shopping development adjacent to the existing Freshney Place site. The project will create 150,000 square feet of retail space and 290 car parking places on land between the River Freshney and Sainsbury's, presently occupied by the former Travis Perkins builders' merchants. Included in the plans are 25 residential apartments with the possibility of riverside Nightclubs and amusement Arcades. A square foot is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 foot (unit of length) long. ...
Travis Perkins plc is a British builders merchant based in Northampton. ...
A new retail and leisure complex is also to be built on the West Marsh by landowners P&O Estates. Covering 85 acres (34 ha) and costing £35 million it is planned to be open by 2009[citation needed], although there is little evidence of construction work as of March 2008; a smaller retail development is planned alongside the proposed new stadium for Grimsby Town FC at Great Coates adjacent to the A180, scheduled for completion in mid-2010. A road access to the area has been built from a new roundabout on Cromwell Road, near to the town's Leisure Centre, with a bridge, over the main railway line to the town, leading to the former refuse land fill site. There is a retail park next to Alexandra Dock. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company or P&O is a shipping line which started in 1840 after the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company won the British Admiralty contract to carry the mail overseas in 1837. ...
Grimsby Town FC are an English football club in Football League Two, who in 2004 finished towards the bottom of the league. ...
Great Coates is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. ...
Such is the quality of shopping in the area that bus services are run to bring in shoppers from across the county of Lincolnshire, especially from smaller towns such as Louth, Brigg, Market Rasen and Scunthorpe.[citation needed] For other places with the same name, see Lincolnshire (disambiguation). ...
, Louth is a market town within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. ...
The Market Place Brigg (fully Glanford Brigg) in North Lincolnshire, England, is the home of Cheese. ...
Market Rasen is a town in Lincolnshire, England within West Lindsey district. ...
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Entertainment The area has a developed, if somewhat corporate, nightlife. Aside from the nightclubs in nearby Cleethorpes, the town centre has undergone a renaissance in the last decade. A number of national pub chains have redeveloped or opened new outlets, including a specially-built complex at the Riverhead which is home to three (originally five) such operations. Prior to the late 1960s many public houses in the area were owned by the local brewer Hewitt Brothers and gave a distinctive local touch but following a takeover in 1969 by the brewer Bass Charrington these have been re-badged (many times), closed or sold off; examples are the Yarborough Hotel. Laser lights illuminate the dance floor at a Gatecrasher dance music event in Sheffield, England A nightclub (or night club or club) is a drinking, dancing, and entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ...
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Bass is the name of a former brewery and the brand name for several English beers originally but no longer brewed in Burton upon Trent. ...
Musical entertainment is found at the Grimsby Auditorium, built in 1995, on Cromwell Road in Yarborough near Grimsby Leisure Centre. The smaller Caxton Theatre is on Cleethorpe Road (A180) in East Marsh near the docks. The Caxton Theatre provides entertainment by adults and youths in theatre. A notable theatre company in the area is the Class Act Theatre Company run by local playwright David Wrightam. The company produces strong factual drama and premiere award-winning productions. Grimsby Auditorium is situated on Cromwell Road, in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire. ...
North East Lincolnshire Council have installed a Wi-Fi network covering Victoria Street in central Grimsby. The service provides access to the Internet for the general public on a yearly subscription.
Politics Since 1977 Austin Mitchell (Labour) has been the Member of Parliament for the Great Grimsby constituency. Mitchell, a journalist by trade, succeeded in a by-election following the death of the Highgate School-educated incumbent Anthony Crosland, who was elected in 1959 and after several ministerial posts, reached the rank of Foreign Secretary in 1976. Crossland served in the Government of Harold Wilson as Education Minister and Foreign Secretary. He was a champion of comprehensive education, and Whitgift School is situated in the town's Crosland Road. Austin Vernon Mitchell (born 19 September 1934[]) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby in England. ...
The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
Great Grimsby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has died or resigned. ...
Sir Roger Cholmeleys School at Highgate (Highgate School) is a British Independent School in London, England. ...
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland (29 August 1918 - 19 February 1977) was a member of the Labour Party and an important socialist theorist. ...
The title of Foreign Secretary has been traditionally used to refer to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. ...
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A comprehensive school is a secondary school that does not select children on the basis of academic attainment or aptitude. ...
Other Members of Parliament for Grimsby include the Conservative Party politician William Younger, a member of the Youngers brewing dynasty, elected in 1945. The constituency of Great Grimsby is considered a Labour stronghold although Austin Mitchell held the seat in the 1983 General Election with a majority of less than 1,000. The Conservative Party, officially though less commonly known as the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a political party in the United Kingdom. ...
There is also the small town of Grimsby, Ontario Coat of Arms of Great Grimsby Great Grimsby is a seaport on the river Humber in the north of England, which has a population of 91,000. ...
A stronghold is a strongly fortified defensive structure. ...
The UK general election, 1983 was held on June 9, 1983 and gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945. ...
Transport
Buses Grimsby's bus service is provided by Stagecoach which took over the original Grimsby-Cleethorpes Transport in 1993. Grimsby-Cleethorpes Transport had been formed in 1957, with the merger of the previously separate Grimsby and Cleethorpes transport (GCT) undertakings. Stagecoach had all the buses resprayed to their standard livery to replace the buses previous colour-scheme of orange and white. Prior to this, the buses were painted blue and white until 1981, when the colours were changed to caramel and cream. The orange and white livery was introduced in 1987. Until 1982 GCT ran a mixture of crewed and one-person operated services. However, in that year the job of conductor was abolished and the company changed entirely to driver-only services. Stagecoach Group plc (LSE: SGC) is a leading international transport group operating bus, train, tram, express coach and ferry operations. ...
In 2005, Stagecoach bought out Lincolnshire Road Car, who provided buses to Killingholme, Louth, Barton-upon-Humber and the Willows Estate. The company is now known as Stagecoach in Lincolnshire. Joint ticketing was allowed with Stagecoach Grimsby-Cleethorpes from May 2006. Killingholme is an area of Lincolnshire, comprising the villages of North Killingholme and South Killingholme. ...
, Louth is a market town within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. ...
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Stagecoach in Lincolnshire is the trading name of the Lincolnshire RoadCar Company Limited (a subsidary of the Stagecoach Group) a bus company, which formerly traded as RoadCar, and runs services throughout Lincolnshire. ...
Stagecoach Grimsby-Cleethorpes is the sector of the Stagecoach Group that operates buses in and around North East Lincolnshire (England), serving a population of over 150,000. ...
From September 2006, a new fleet of low-floor single-decker was introduced, making the fleet an unprecedented 85% low-floor.
Railways Grimsby also has rail links via Grimsby Town railway station and Grimsby Docks railway station. There is a level crossing in the centre of the town across Wellowgate. TransPennine Express provide direct trains to Manchester Airport via Doncaster and Sheffield whilst Northern Rail operate services to Barton-upon-Humber (for buses to Hull) and Lincoln and East Midlands Trains services to Nottingham. The service to Cleethorpes runs at least hourly during the day, along a single track, passing stations at Grimsby Docks and New Clee. The main entrance to the station Grimsby Town railway station serves the town of Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire. ...
Grimsby Docks railway station Serves the town of Grimsby in Lincolnshire External links Train times and station information for Grimsby Docks railway station from National Rail (Station code: GMD) Street map and aerial photo of Grimsby Docks railway station from Multimap. ...
The term level crossing (also called a railroad crossing, railway crossing, train crossing or grade crossing) is a crossing on one level (at-grade intersection) — without recourse to a bridge or tunnel — of a railway line by a road, path, or another railroad. ...
TransPennine Express (TPE) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom. ...
Manchesters International Airport has a station built into its terminal buildings, and is currently a 2-platform hub with transport connections to the local bus network. ...
Doncaster railway station serves the town of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, England. ...
Sheffield Midland station, now called simply Sheffield, is the railway station in central Sheffield, in Yorkshire, northern England. ...
Northern Rail, usually known as Northern (and sometimes incorrectly called Northern Trains), is a train operating company, that has operated local passenger service |
