Your Questions

Can you remember 70s training centre?

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Can anyone remember the RTITB GTA training centre in Macaulay Street in the late 70s? It was in an ex Ford and Slater garage, they also did HGV training. If so, do you remember where it was housed before that?
I remember it was down somewhere around Albion Street down a...

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What was on site of library?

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

The Central Library in Grimsby was built around 1968 to replace an earlier one that was, I believe, bombed. I remember the interim...

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Boulevard subway

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Can anyone tell me the date Boulevard Avenue subway opened? I was a 5 year old at Macaulay Street school and I have memories of watching...

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Sea wall breach

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Do photographs exist of flooded RAF. North Coates, after the breach of the sea wall in January 1953?Arthur Hall.

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Earliest triplets?

Monday, September 15, 2008

MY grandparents had triplets born in Grimsby in August 1911.Are these the earliest recorded triplets in the area? Sue Kelk, Grimsby.

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So Cruel

Monday, September 15, 2008

ON the 1824 Ordnance Survey map of Grimsby and Cleethorpes, I found an area called "Cruel Close" which seems to roughly correspond to the...

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Are you radio ga-ga?

Monday, September 15, 2008

DOES anyone know what New Waltham radio station was known as during the war or its length of service? Terry Alford

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What's happening to the Lincoln Castle?

Monday, September 15, 2008

Can anyone tell me what is happening to the PSS Lincoln Castle? It was supposed to go for a clean up, returned to its original mooring and...

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Follies shows

Monday, September 15, 2008

Can anyone tell me what year Jimmy Slater's Follies put shows on in Cleethorpes? Mary Bevan. Use the comment facility below to add information...

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How did 'Snibby' originate?

Monday, September 15, 2008

CAN anybody tell me how the name "snibby" came about, which is a Danish fishing boat. I know that all the fishermen I have talked to know what...

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