How YOU can help Grimsby's historic Ice Factory live on forever
SHARE your memories of Grimsby's Ice Factory so it is never forgotten.
That is the call from Grimsby Ice Factory Trust after receiving £6,400 from the Heritage Lottery to create an online archive of the historic building.
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HISTORIC: The former Ice Factory on Grimsby docks.
The funding is a huge boost to the Trust, which last week officially unveiled a £12 million plan to transform it into a leisure complex with a cinema, climbing wall and a pub, at a public consultation.
Trustee and member of the Project Ice management team, Roy Horobin, said: "We want people to connect with the history of the place before it is lost forever. It is very much a people project, we want their memories and for them to have ownership of it.
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"The sad truth is, that in five years time, there will not be many people around who knew of the Ice Factory back then. This will stop their memories becoming lost."
Each story will be recorded and preserved online, along with photographs and films for all to see.
GALLERY: Historic Grimsby Ice Factory pictures
The Trust believes transforming the Ice Factory will lead to regeneration of the waterside and Freeman Street area and describe receiving Heritage Lottery funding as proof they too have faith in the old building.
Fellow trustee and Project Ice management team member David Pitcher added: "This is a huge boost for us. We are so pleased at how enthusiastic Heritage Lottery has been about this project. It described the Ice Factory as one of the most important buildings in industrial history. It was amazed by the machinery inside, there is nothing left like it."
Roy added: "It has an industrial beauty and we know that if people have vision and will, we could do something with it and get something started."
If you want to share your memories with Project Ice, visit www.facebook.com/projecticegy or e-mail projectice@ggift.co.uk
10 Comments
by grimrich
Monday, March 04 2013, 7:23PM
“i have said it before and will again , why not look at doing these ideas in the old cinema in freeman street the last arc deco building in gy , still got the screens for a possible world and art house cinema and got the space for a climbing wall activity ,and space for a art gallery or sort , dont waste what could be a great building and its nor falling down either ,and move all the ice factorys machinery in to a space near the heritage centre( end of garth lane) this ice factory has been a thorn in abp private land , they need to progress with developing the port, this commitee need to take off there rose specs and see other potential buildings”
by kittycloe
Monday, March 04 2013, 6:22PM
“Its a shame just a little foresight, it would have been ideal as a Heritage Centre, the pontoon opposite, could have been made up as it was many years ago, the Ross Tiger could have been along side, the rest of that dock could be used as a Yacht Marina, I would have thought NELC you know the towns motto.............. we lock the door after the horse has bolted........could have got in touch with the Docks Board and made an effort to have got something to remind the Town of its Heritage, but we all know what NELC thinks of heritage thats why what bit we have got left is falling down, never mind perhaps Kate will want to do a Supermarket Shop when she is finished at the heritage centre
Stewart”
by seadog
Monday, March 04 2013, 5:08PM
“its a dump knock it down with the rest of the dock and put somethink new there.
and you sad lot giving people red ratings get a life its a dump down there full of rats and wild cats and it skinks...
so if it makes you happy just give me a red rating you sado”
by davendogs
Monday, March 04 2013, 1:20PM
“How about putting word out it is haunted. You could have a mean old trawler owner in there and some downtrodden barrow boys. £15 a head for a one hour walkabout. Just put a little souvenir shop to the side of it.”
by havntone
Monday, March 04 2013, 1:10PM
“Knock it down.”
by GRIM_oldie
Monday, March 04 2013, 1:01PM
“§ Maybe 'balme' as in 'balm'-pot or barm-pot was a good word for it, but I meant 'BLAME', of course. Sorry about that: 'More haste, less speed' -- wotteva THAT means!? §”
by GRIM_oldie
Monday, March 04 2013, 12:55PM
Ҥ 'When I were Down-Dock', for many formative years, it was called The Ice House, in honour of its history and forebears, by everyone I knew. IT was NEVER called "The Ice Factory" before the innocenti became involved. Come on chaps --- this is supposed to be a 'HERITAGE project', however misplaced.
Grimsby is a rapidly contracting town and eventually, all we shall have, in times to come, is a wasteland on the East Marsh populated by random industrial ventures. A recycled Ice House will do nothing to deny this: it's on private land, it's privately owned and in a justifiably secured estate miles from the naturally developing town centre, re-affirming its heritage role -- where it was when there was only The Haven. We HAVE The Haven [Alex Dock, S. Arm] conveniently close to the Town Centre. WE ALSO HAD THE p.s. 'Lincoln Castle' AND THE THE GRIMSBY-BUILT FISHING-SMACK 'Esther'. WHO DO WE BALME FOR THEIR LOSS!!??
Maybe the project-members would have been better engaged in devoting their admirable efforts in conserving properties with much easier access in the town centre...
At the very limit of the real town, The LISTED Municipal College building in Eleanor-st -- or maybe, better placed, the former Hewitt's coopery? They're pretty well all we've got left after our delinquent 'silly burgers' [as of Calais!] have left their mark.
Is not one of the doughty 'Ice Factory' activists possessed of a connexion with the Council-sequestered Doughty Collection, bequeathed to the people of Grimsby? The Coopery is admirably situated as a home for this, in the town centre -- as was the Silver-st School of Art before our delinquent council sold it, with the usual total lack of foresight!
Doggelpus!! "God bless us, every one." -- Anyone for Louth?? Or Caistor??”
by ecol1
Monday, March 04 2013, 11:09AM
“Just be certain Grimsby Fish Dock Enterprise Ltd and the Docks Board are not planning to raise it to the ground and use the area as a lorry park for their Wind Turbine Industry.”
by Good_Citizen
Monday, March 04 2013, 11:00AM
“Knock it down. The sooner the better. Spend the millions on caring for the elderly.”
by 1812o
Monday, March 04 2013, 10:06AM
“It's not just a memory but a living nightmare.
Every time I cross Riby Square I think 'WHAT AN EYESORE, GET RID'.
Holidaymakers destined for Cleethorpes arriving via the A180 or rail must be aghast and put off by the ugly site of the Ice Factory.
It's becoming a plaything for pseudo middle class 'aren't we nice people', with their heads in the clouds and too much time on their hands.
£12,000,000 one way or another would have to come out of our pockets and our priorities are more important than renovating that dump. Haven't the 'nice people' heard of austerity cuts, or are they insulated?
Drop the Ice Factory and sell it as rubble!”