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Not a real Minster because it was never a monastic foundation. (Unlike Lincoln, Southwell, Beverley, York or West-)
timbo | 29.08.20 - 7:16 a.m. | #
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I have not particularly fond memories of seeing QPR play Grimsby Town in the final round of the 1982 - 1983 second division season at Blundell Park. Mid way through the second half a cloudburst engulfed the ground, reducing the pitch to a paddy field. As nothing hinged on the outcome of the game (QPR having already won the second division as champions and Grimsby were just safe from relegation) the ref decide to allow the game to continue in dreadful conditions. The away end turned into a huge shower with torrents of water pouring through large holes in the roof. The match ended 1-1.
Southern Man | 29.08.20 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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Another feature in the docks (albeit not one that looks like much from the exterior) is the historic ice factory - a pioneering piece of technology in its day, which stopped the port needing to import blocks of ice from far away frozen fjords, and maybe one day restored and accessible. ggift.co.uk/educational-resources
David | Homepage | 29.08.20 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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Two different friends/relatives moved from the South of England to North Lincs in the 80s/90s, both for obscure reasons including finances. Both liked the area; we found that it had a certain appeal but was also a long way from anywhere, so journeys to and from are our main recollections. But yes, Grimsby is quite nice in a strange sort of way.
Malcolm | 29.08.20 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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Blundell Park right up there with Oldham's ground for the coldest nights I've spent at football (or rugby league)
Chris | 29.08.20 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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One of Grimsby Town's players is called Matthew Pollock.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 29.08.20 - 9:10 a.m. | #
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Good report. Pedantry corner: mid 18th century with the coming of the railway?
RogerB | 29.08.20 - 9:19 a.m. | #
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Fixed, thanks.
Please avoid question marks on the end of obvious factual corrections. It’s an error, no question about it.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 29.08.20 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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Excellent, I've really missed posts like this over the past few months.
Dan | 29.08.20 - 9:59 a.m. | #
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I'd assumed the 'obvious adjective' you were seeking to avoid was 'fishy' but that makes an appearance in para 5, so maybe it was 'pescatorial'. Never been to Grimsby but you make it sound like my kind of place.
Sarah | 29.08.20 - 11:17 a.m. | #
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Maybe it was Grim
timbo | 29.08.20 - 11:49 a.m. | #
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Thanks DG, yet another excellent post about somewhere I've never visited. 😀 I learn something new nearly every time I read your blog, keep up the good work, it's appreciated 😉
Kevin Too | 29.08.20 - 12:02 p.m. | #
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Oh, I've only just noticed the 'No Ball Games' sign on the wall of the turnstile entrance to Blundell Park 🤣🤣
Kevin Too | 29.08.20 - 12:06 p.m. | #
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The whole idea of Minster as a status which can be conferred is quite recent - the first, as far as I can see, was Dewsbury Minster in 1994. Before that, only four churches were regularly called minsters - York, Southwell, Beverley and Wimborne - though the term survived in a other places in place names and street names, and was sometimes used, as at Lincoln, by people reviving a historical usage.
However, despite the term deriving from monasterium, I don't believe it was ever used only of monastic foundations: certainly all four of the minsters with a continuous tradition of using the term were colleges of secular priests in the Middle Ages.
Andrew M | 29.08.20 - 12:38 p.m. | #
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Three score and ten
boys and men
were lost from Grimsby Town ...
I suppose that's the Grimsby referred to.
Leuconoe | 29.08.20 - 1:03 p.m. | #
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My sole memory of Grimsby was as a 14 year-old watching AFC Bournemouth play Grimsby in the Auto-windscreens shield final at Wembley. Losing on golden goal. And then shouting at any Grimsby fan I could see after the game that they smelt of fish.
David | 29.08.20 - 5:20 p.m. | #
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"As for the mill, its seven storey redbrick grain silo looks gorgeous..." Steady now. Very nearly a positive comment.
Lindsay | 29.08.20 - 5:41 p.m. | #
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Another Chris here whose only experience of Grimsby was a visit to Blundell Park on a rainy Tuesday (?) night last century. For reasons I won't go into, a mate and I ran onto the pitch during the game.
No worries, a boot up the arse from OB and all was well.
Trouble is, it meant we had identified ourselves as away fans. After the game (lost 3-0) we were spotted by a group, one of whom had a knife. Fear gave us wings and I am convinced we broke some sort of record for the return to the station.
The only other thing I remember of Grimsby was the pong of fish and a Birds Eye factory which I saw from the train.
Chris | 29.08.20 - 11:32 p.m. | #
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Bernie Taupin is from Lincolnshire, which is why Elton John had an album track about Grimsby.
Mark | 30.08.20 - 3:27 p.m. | #
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Halloween 1992, I was a student in Manchester, and could have walked to Old Trafford to see my team Wimbledon play there, but it was too expensive (£15) so I took the train to Cleethorpes and watched Grimsby v Portsmouth instead. With a YP railcard and student entry the tickets cost me £14.70, so I saved money, and got to tick off Blundell Park from my attempt at the 92, but I did miss a famous Wimbledon win.
Wayne | 31.08.20 - 7:48 p.m. | #
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