Blogging around Lincolnshire: August 2015

Wednesday 26 August 2015

Cleethorpes beach is to become Monopoly’s Old Kent Road | Grimsby Telegraph

Cleethorpes beach is to become Monopoly’s Old Kent Road | Grimsby Telegraph

"The new board game will be available at toy and book stores from September 30 in time for Christmas, including at Ramsdens, The Range, Smyths and Waterstones.

The board will also be very widely available online, including at www.amazon.co.uk "

Saturday 22 August 2015

Pictures: The soon-to-be-lost view from Grimsby's East Marsh tower blocks | Grimsby Telegraph

Surely demolition isn't the right solution for these blocks of flats.

http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Shoreline-turn-2-5m-bid-Grimsby-s-high-rise/story-26555223-detail/story.html

Shoreline is the housing association that bought these four blocks of flats from the local council.

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The Chinese property group YU has been told it cannot buy the high-rise flats – due to be demolished – on Grimsby's East Marsh.

The Chinese investors offered to pay £2.5 million for the blocks and planned to modernise them and rent them out privately.

But today the board of Shoreline said it had decided to proceed no further with the YU bid and is all set for demolition in 2017.

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The housing charity said it was concerned about the potential adverse impact on "the organisation's rental income in the immediate area".

Bosses added they could not see a way that this could be safely mitigated with any assurance."

Thursday 20 August 2015

A peek inside the refurbished Cleethorpes Pier - pictures | Grimsby Telegraph

Friday 14 August 2015

A shell of a building: Pictures inside Lindsey Lower School as it is transformed into care home | Grimsby Telegraph

A shell of a building: Pictures inside Lindsey Lower School as it is transformed into care home | Grimsby Telegraph

Cleethorpes Girls' Grammar School, later the Lindsey Lower School, has been unused for several years. Now the building is being converted into a care home, with much of the old building retained. these photos bring back memories.

The corridors around the courtyards with the windows removed. When I went to the school, the windows had only just been installed. The room with a bay window and a fire place - wasn't that Miss Vallins' study? The gym without bars - and dancing in the gym (was the music really 78s played on a wind-up gramophone?). Sitting on the floor in the hall. So many memories..............

Monday 10 August 2015

Vintage Cleethorpes - video

If you like to be beside the seaside, you'll enjoy Friends of Cleethorpes Heritage's latest video by Mo Whitaker, featuring a myriad of photos and postcards, some wonderful period music and a special guest appearance by Dudley the donkey (with thanks to Donnas Peterson)

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