GREAT GRIMSBY ICE FACTORY TRUST AT GGIFT.CO.UK IS BEING UPDATED. THE LINK IS EFFECTIVELY DEAD FOR NOW. TO SEE THE LATEST AT GRIMSBY'S HISTORIC DOCKS GO TO THE KASBAH WEBSITE AT thekasbah.co.uk
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Local historian, researcher and tour guide, Emma Lingard on The History and Secrets of Barton Street. the road that runs along the edge of the Wolds, between Louth and Barton. Admission free for members - £5 guests
'The Humber’s industrial heft makes it the obvious choice as the location of Britain’s first hydrogen network'
Humber Hydrogen has potential to unlock more than 50,000 new jobs, data shows
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Wow, that was truly amazing, the Strawberry Full Moon rising over Ely Cathedral this evening. Seen from Little Downham outside of Ely, Cambridgeshire 😍🌝 I didn’t think it was going to shine through the clouds, but it certainly did 🙏🏻🥰 #Fullmoon #strawberrymoon #ElyCathedral #amazing #Wonderful
Mayor Dame Andrea Jenkyns will be outside Grimsby Town Hall Tuesday 30 June from 10AM to 11AM on a bus to get local views about transport (source: post on the Greater Lincolnshire Combined Authority website. This also promotes the online questionnaire on our transport "wants".
Butterfly Bomb Memorial Service at Grimsby Minster with reflections on the devastating raid of 14 June 1943, remembering the lives lost, the impact it had on our town and those who made Grimsby safe again.
Reminder that @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social will be showing the 'Butterfly Winter' episode of DANGER UXB at 5am tomorrow (Saturday 13 June) and that the Butterfly Bomb exhibition continues in Freshney Place (now with a BBC Radio documentary playing).
The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark@harrydobermann.bsky.social · 2mo agoJust been told that @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social will begin a repeat run of DANGER UXB next Tuesday at 5am! You will have another chance to see 'Butterfly Winter' at 5am Saturday 13 June 2026.
Permission has been sought to turn The Customs House in Grimsby into a mix of flats and a retail unit
Plans to revive Grimsby's Customs House revealed
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Bus Diversions down Frederick Ward Way for Royal Visit tomorrow (Thursday 11 June) - see Stagecoach Grimsby-Cleethorpes website for latest updates
the Butterfly Bomb Exhibition at People Make Grimsby, Baxtergate, Freshney Place opens tomorrow. and will be open on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 4pm, until 18th June
Just been told that @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social will begin a repeat run of DANGER UXB next Tuesday at 5am! You will have another chance to see 'Butterfly Winter' at 5am Saturday 13 June 2026.
Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust@greatgift.bsky.social · 2mo agoScenes from 'Butterfly Winter' episode of DANGER UXB (1979) which writer Jeremy Paul confirmed was based on the 1943 Butterfly Bomb raid on Grimsby - to be commemorated this June with exhibition and service at Grimsby Minster.
Government urged not to 'abandon' coastal communities to the sea #Lincolnshire #BBCNews
Government urged not to 'abandon' Lincolnshire communities to sea
Ideas explored in a report by Lincolnshire Coast 2100 include allowing parts of the county to flood.
bbc.com
Exhibition about the 1943 Butterfly Bomb raid is at People Make Grimsby (near NEXT) Freshney Place, Grimsby.
Service remembering victims of the 1943 Butterfly Bomb raid at Grimsby Minster 14 June 2026
We're teaming up with artist, writer and speaker Dan Thompson to offer a marvellous #Margate mooch which will uncover the resort's hidden stories. Why not join us on 9 June to take a tour from pre-history to Brutalism at the #seaside? Book your place at ticketsource.com/seaside-heri...
Thursday 28 May 7:30pm - Grimsby Concert Society at Grimsby Town Hall - The Rubenstein Hartung Duo in One Piano, Four Hands. Mozart Sonata in C Major. Schubert Fantasie. Brahms Variation on a Theme by Robert Schumann. Ravel Mother Goose Suite. Tickets £16.50
What finer representation of 1950s Britain can there be? It's the summer holidays and the family's annual week at the seaside (in this case, Bridlington in Yorkshire). The weather is such that plastic raincoats and heavy overcoats are standard issue. .....
My next online talk celebrates the centenary of the most picturesque #seaside village in Britain. #Portmeirion was the brainchild of Clough Williams-Ellis, a labour of love that he built over fifty years. Always a hotel, join me to learn about its unique history www.ticketsource.com/kathryn-ferry
📢Last call for my online talk *this evening* about the impact of the #festivalofbritain on #seaside buildings. To celebrate its 75th anniversary I'll discuss festival style as seen in #piers, pavilions and even #beachhuts ticketsource.com/kathryn-ferry @c20society.bsky.social
The fifth round of the bsky.app/profile/arts... Libraries Improvement Fund is now open. This will enable library services to invest in upgrades to buildings and technology so they are better placed to respond to the changing ways people are using them.
Libraries Improvement Fund (LIF) Round 5
This fund will enable library services across England to invest in a range of projects to upgrade buildings and technology.
artscouncil.org.uk
Fostering Fortnight kicks off today
Celebration of foster carers shines a light on incredible people
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Thursday 21 May. 7:15pm. Free Entry to AGM, followed by illustrated talks from Paul Fenwick (photographic Virtual Museum) and David Smith (Weelsby Hall renovation). AGM at Grimsby Town Hall.
1/2 Our campaign against those irritating, single use 'cable ties' multiplying across the city, where they are used to fix 'statutory notices' continues. We've just handed over a bag containing another 1000 of the 'little darlings' for recycling... …
Thursday 16 April at Grimsby Town Hall - Astronomer Paul Money tells @grimsbycleecivic.bsky.social about the Wonders of the Solar System. Begins 7:15pm. £5.00 to non-members.
Chinese seamen, Liverpool, 1942, by Bert Hardy. Unpublished by Picture Post because too sensitive. They were on half the pay of British seamen, lived in squalor, went on strike and were labelled troublemakers.
