Saturday 11 March 2017

Grimsby Docks.

Gordon Jackson described the development of Grimsby’s port in the 1840s and 1850s as representing the ‘first truly modern dock in Britain', built by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway company it was created to combat to the silting up of the River Humber on which the town of Grimsby sits on the banks of. Skippers of ships sailing to Hull complained of the poor condition of the river and so with the construction of a new dock at Grimsby, it not only solved the problem of the river but also put the small town of Grimsby on the map.
Nowadays the dock is a sad shadow of its former self, crumbling buildings, concrete floors where once a building stood and slowly creeping in is the dark spectre of modernity.







 Anyone remember Atonement with Keira Knightley and James McAvoy? Here's a 'ghost sign' from the film, a souvenir of when Hollywood came to Grimsby.
 As mundane as this telegraph pole may seem it stands tall and proud, having witnessed the nearby Royal Dock hotel fall to the 'white elephant' that is the Cleethorpe Road flyover and solemnly stand by as the docks themselves fall into decay.
 A statue tall and grand can be seen from the aforementioned flyover, having been moved from the more luxurious setting of the Prince Albert Gardens to stand before the grand Dock Offices.
 Another apparent mundane piece of hardware, this (it is believed) is a gate post that stood beside the Cleethorpe Road crossing before the overhead flyover was built. Why it was left behind, maybe to serve as a special reminder of the old layout.