Grimsby, Royal Hotel 1890
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Photo ref:
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More about this scene
The old Royal was demolished in the 1960s; it thrives today as a much smaller hotel called the Humber Royal, part of the Forte hotel chain. It is pleasing to see, for once, that a facility has not been lost but renewed to meet modern needs. For lovers of trivia, previous managers of the Royal were the parents of the actress Patricia Hodge.
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A Selection of Memories from Grimsby
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Grimsby
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Sometime around the late 1950s my uncle was at the docks and was killed when a tractor was being loaded onto a ship.
A cable broke and the tractor fell and killed him.
Does anyone have any memories of this?
I was a Public Health Inspector in Grimsby from 1950 to 1954 when I moved to Suffolk. I remember going to the old and new slaughterhouses to do meat inspection, working all hours and getting nothing for it ! We had to take 'overtime' as time off when it suited the boss, Harold Parkinson, NOT when it suited us ! We were busy surveying all the old houses for clearance but remember the ladies all having a rail ...see more
1950's: As a young lad I lived just a few minutes from this park (which is in Cleethorpes not Grimsby) and so spent a lot of time there. This pond was home to many hundreds of small fish, which I assume to be sticklebacks and minnows. We couldn't afford nets or rods so we fished using a jam jar attached to a length of string. The water was clear and we could see the fish so we would lower the jam jar to the ...see more
Anyone remember the name of the café in the market place? used to go there upstairs, juke box days! also would frequent the pub opposite St.James church, name evades me now, many moons ago.[white heart?]
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