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We used to have a caravan firstly on Fitties Camp, or should I say my grandparents did. My first time there was when I was 6 wks old, so it would have been August. I can remember being in the caravan at a young age and my four siblings too, with our parents and Nannie and Granddad too. That was the early 60`s, but they would have had the caravan maybe before then. When I was around 7 or 8 Granddad and Nannie bought a bungalow, so maybe around 67/68 year... Bungalow 81, on the first Main Road, which they called it `Val de ree`. Sadly our granddad passed away not long after and the bungalow was passed over to our Mam and Dad. We had the bungalow until 2006, when we sadly lost our parents and sold the bungalow. For me personally, it was something I didn`t want to do, but my siblings voted to sell. It`s my biggest regret not being able to keep it. We have so many precious memories here, from being a young child myself, then taking my own children and one of my grandchildren too was able to spend some family time here, precious memories. Our second home, we spent many weeks there in the holidays and weekends too. We still come to visit for the day and spend time on the beach. It will always be in my heart and always be such a special place for me... Memories forever kept.. ❤
I had two great uncles who joined the Chums. Both from Gainsborough, is there anywhere that have photos of the chums as I have no photos of my uncles 🥲
This take me back to being a kid, there used to be to be a printers called Richard and coppins I believe that was its name was, my dad was the letter setter there until they left Grimsby
Hahaha its me hieidn i live closer yong its a joke no ghost at all Kashmir is freeman street pop ghot taker app on and read all thay have sead to you as you go and cume home its crazy the hi rize flat after thay was knot doune it kick off with ghost boxs in hole eray no cap
Corr blimey I'm 63 and born and bred in Grimsby and I live around the corner from the Central Hall and I had no idea how it and the Town Hall looked inside, wow. I feel like some form of underclass that all this knowledge has been kept from. Thanks for informing me about how magnificent they are, I feel raised up in my spirit by it, God Bless you for making this programme.
And dig the old tipping fountain out, the council still have it hidden away. An exact copy is still in Liverpool and is very popular. Scouses would fight to keep it. And the soap foam was fun... And that's what life is all about. Stuff planners, they've torn this town apart and pulled down some of the best buildings only to replace it with what, bloody hotels....realy
My great grandfather was a Grimsby chum James spring, machine gun corps ,his name is on the memorial at Grimsby minster.There have have been Springs in Grimsby since the 17.00 hundreds 😊thanks for the upload.
Load of rubbish, I was born in Kent Street ,Grimsby and half my family worked down the docks. There was no Kas barr. Danes etc where called.. scrobs and country folk ..josskins. It was Doughty with the money and Yarborough with the land that built the railway. And they made there money moving refugees from Europe to Liverpool and beyond. They had sleeping sheds next to Dock station, and the fish trade came second. One of my danish mates at western schools dad was the Danish consul ,who's office was at Riby Square and Freeman Street corner. Never heard that name Kasbarr down there.alot of the fish merchant drank in the Lincoln pub or the Station and Oberon pubs.
Did you know your welcome here just not in a campervan. Spend your money somewere that makes you feel welcome like Scarborough for example. INFORCMENT OFFICER'S roam around Cleethorpes and harrased me for simply being in a camper van ??? I guess cleethorps isn't part of our so called free country
Kasbah my arse it’s just a pathetic name made up by people who have never even been”down dock”let alone worked there. This area of the Fish Docks is and always has been known as the square so do you research properly before broadcasting this fairytale as it’s an insult to everyone associated with the place.
As someone who was born in Grimsby but now lives in Essex I would have thought you should have known that the Mayflower was built at Killingholme Haven just upriver from Immingham. My parents moved from Grimsby to South Killingholme while I was in the Military (1976 to 1999) and upon my demob I explored the area arround South Killingholme, walking the footpaths and cycling the back roads until one day I found myself looking at the Blue Placque on the bridge over Killingholme Haven stating that the Mayflower was built on the Creek leading into the River Humber. I am not sure if the Blue Placque still exists, but an inquiery to those who present the Blue Placques could confirm its existance. Tony in Essex
I can not think this channel enough for gifting these episodes to the world but especially to people like me who will never have a chance to see these places in person, the intimate knowledge shared feels so special so again Thank you
Good to see some of the old buildings finally being restored. As for the name, not sure why people get so upset by it - Kasbah is certainly more interesting than ‘former fish docks’ and if it helps give the area an identity and the regeneration of the place then so be it. The Clash - Rock the Casbah could also be used!?
I'd love to see these so called documents saying that it's been called the kasbah for years and if she could I'd like to get them carbon dated for authenticate because i think shes either full of crap or the document arnt genuine
The so called ''Kasbah' was never historically known by that name in all the years that I worked down there from 1961 to wellinto the '70's. Surtees St, Sidebottom St, Brown St and Smith St happened to be where quite a considerable a number of fish houses and smokehouses where located. Jack Amos and Petersons being just a couple of them. Petersons being well known for kippers as well as other smoked species. Another species, the deep water 'Wolf Fish', commonly known as 'Cats' of which tons of them being landed in large amounts during the '60's, of which many went to various smokers before being deep frozen for long term storage. These are memories that I remember well as a barrowlad when myself and my workmate, Gordon Neville, after finishing the fetching up from the various markets of numerous kits that the gaffer had bought to our 'job and had unloaded them off the barrow ready fo the filleters myself, as the 'toerag' on the job (company) would be sent to collect the 'second hand and dry' bits from a number other merchants that specialised in various species and dry fish products that my gaffers customers required, usually to the Smith ,Surtees and Brown St tri-angle where many smokehouses had been established for donkeys years. This was daily fare for all merchants in those days and the trade between the huge variety of the fish merchants customers requirements was in itself just another feature of daily life on and off the 'Pontoon' and nobody had ever heard of the bloody Kasbah! So, will the 'plonker' who started this myth please stand up and be counted!
The "Kasbah" is nothing but twaddle - invented by the local rag ( Grimsby Evening Telegraph ) -- ask anyone who has ever worked down dock and they will all tell you that " The Kasbah " is garbage and is nothing more than a poor joke
I get that very few, if any, local people (and my family on both sides were Grimsby fishermen and dock workers) call it the Kasbah. But what’s the problem with calling it the Kasbah if it helps attract funding and new business? Christ on a bike, would you rather it continued to go to rack and ruin? The town desperately needs an influx of new money. Having a dog in a manger attitude won’t help anyone.
The suggestion that the Norman’s/Viking MEN created the Bayeux Tapestry is totally wrong. The tapestry was commissioned by a Norman bishop but was created by Anglo-Saxon WOMEN. Please fact check! I enjoy your videos but so many historical inaccuracies that could easily be avoided.
I remember that market in the '70s. Huge crowds around Mad Harry's and a huge queue to get a seat in the Pea bung. Roll on the mid '80s and it was almost dead.
