BBC News - Lincoln Castle skeleton 'could be Saxon king or bishop'

BBC News - Lincoln Castle skeleton 'could be Saxon king or bishop'

Breaking News: Euro windfall for Greater Lincolnshire | This is Grimsby

Breaking News: Euro windfall for Greater Lincolnshire | This is Grimsby

BBC News - Mallard anniversary: Steam locomotive Bittern marks record run

BBC News - Mallard anniversary: Steam locomotive Bittern marks record run

"Mallard set a record speed of 126mph near Grantham on 3 July 1938, which remains unbeaten to this day."

Eleanor Street School, Grimsby

The old school building is in a sorry state.

You can see the photos I took on 26 June 2013 at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10201314357643236.1073741849.1301721739&type=1&l=58c8515e52

A brief history:
Eleanor Street School, Grimsby

Date

EventSource 　　　 1895 10 24 School opened. Architect Herbert Scaping. ""The new school had a playfield, swimming baths, laboratory and a lecture Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. vividly shown in the Grimsby News drawings."The new college that opened to its first pupils at 9am on Monday, November 4, 1895, was to quote the advertisements of the time, designed to give 'A sound modern education affording preparation for universities, professional and commercial life'.
"The college had a staff of 30 university graduates and specialists supervised by the principal, Mr Ernest J Stream MA."


""After the Technical School finally closed, the building became Grimsby Art College. It was then envisaged that the building would be converted to apartments, but unfortunately the school's main hall was demolished and the remainder of the building allowed to fall into disrepair."


http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/Undefined-Headline/story-11535408-detail/story.html#axzz2XJxdY954 1935 c "It was big enough to teach 900 students and was the second largest co-educational school in England in the mid-Thirties."

http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/Race-save-crumbling-Wintringham-Grammar-School/story-17040653-detail/story.html#axzz2XJxdY954 1995 08 15 Designated as Grade II listed building.Nationally Listed Buildings in Grimsby 2008 02 09 Video on YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvHBAREVFDo 2010 12 29 50% already demolishedhttp://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/Undefined-Headline/story-11535408-detail/story.html#axzz2XJxdY954 2012 10 00 google maps. https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=%22eleanor+street%22+school+grimsby&hl=en&rlz=1T4TSEI_enGB375GB375&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1024&bih=365&wrapid=tlif137232206750010&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl 2012 10 05 Race to save the 'crumbling' former Wintringham Grammar School building in Grimsby
http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/Race-save-crumbling-Wintringham-Grammar-School/story-17040653-detail/story.html#axzz2XJxdY954

Posing birds on Cleethorpes Boating Lake

Some of the photos I took on a walk around Cleethorpes Boating lake today.  Most of the birds are greylag geese.

You can see more photos at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10201328569318519.1073741852.1301721739&type=1&l=982ba4b8a7

BBC News - Bicker Fen wind farm substation: Residents 'shocked'

BBC News - Bicker Fen wind farm substation: Residents 'shocked'

"Residents say they are shocked at plans to build a substation the size of 30 football pitches in their village."

Something the size of 30 football pitches can hardly be described as a substation!  This sounds like a massive development.

The Grimsby & Cleethorpes History Club

The Grimsby & Cleethorpes History Club

 

A very interesting page on facebook - photos of old Grimsby and Cleethorpes, and comments.

BBC News - Roman townhouse 'underneath Lincoln Castle'

BBC News - Roman townhouse 'underneath Lincoln Castle'

BBC News - Roman townhouse 'underneath Lincoln Castle'

BBC News - Roman townhouse 'underneath Lincoln Castle'

Club has speaker for every man, starting with Patricia | This is Grimsby

Club has speaker for every man, starting with Patricia | This is Grimsby

Blue Cross

The Blue Cross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Until I read this I did not realise that the only Blue Cross hospital outside London is in Grimsby.

Conservative colleagues welcome news of Edward Leigh's knighthood | This is Grimsby

Conservative colleagues welcome news of Edward Leigh's knighthood | This is Grimsby

BBC News - Lincoln Cathedral peregrine falcon chicks fledge

BBC News - Lincoln Cathedral peregrine falcon chicks fledge

Damaged railway near Hatfield Colliery will re-open in July | Grimsby Telegraph

Damaged railway near Hatfield Colliery will re-open in July | Grimsby Telegraph

Iconic Vulcan needs another £400,000 for winter modification to return it to the skies in 2014 | This is Lincolnshire

Iconic Vulcan needs another £400,000 for winter modification to return it to the skies in 2014 | This is Lincolnshire

BBC News - Stamford hospital under 'threat of closure' says MP

BBC News - Stamford hospital under 'threat of closure' says MP

"Mr Boles, Conservative MP for Grantham and Stamford................
"It is a proper catastrophe and it is a direct result of some grossly incompetent decisions made to back a PFI scheme to build the hospital in Peterborough that was based on figures that were literally totally incredible, they could never have come true............""

Parkway Cinemas owner and founder Gerald Parkes dies aged 69 | This is Grimsby

Parkway Cinemas owner and founder Gerald Parkes dies aged 69 | This is Grimsby

Call for your help to save Lincolnshire's ancient trees | This is Grimsby

Call for your help to save Lincolnshire's ancient trees | This is Grimsby

BBC News - Renovation plans for Spurn Point lighthouse

BBC News - Renovation plans for Spurn Point lighthouse

BBC News - Bomber Command memorial in Lincoln: Steel spire design chosen

BBC News - Bomber Command memorial in Lincoln: Steel spire design chosen