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<channel><generator>iloblog 1.0</generator><title>GCD Civic Updates Feed</title><link>http://www.grimsbycleecivic.co.uk/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;News from the Grimsby Cleethorpes and District Civic Society Website.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grimsbycleecivic.co.uk/index.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;To return to the Home Page, click here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><item><title>Annual General Meeting</title><link>http://iloapp.grimsbycleecivic.co.uk/blog/www?Home&amp;post=84</link><description><![CDATA[ Our Annual General Meeting will be held at 7pm on Thursday 10th May at Grimsby Town Hall. After the Society Business we will be showing the Grimsby at Work DVd and offering a tour of the Time Trap. Non-members charge £2  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 09:06:54 +0100</pubDate><category>Updates</category></item><item><title>Immingham 100 Exhibition</title><link>http://iloapp.grimsbycleecivic.co.uk/blog/www?Home&amp;post=83</link><description><![CDATA[ Grimsby's Fishing Heritage Museum is currently running an exhibition tying in with 100 years of Immingham Docks.
Pulled together from photo's, documents and transport memorobilia, the exhibition shows how the Great Central Railway carved a deepwater dock out of empty fields. A large photo of rough thatched cottages, maps, and aerial photo's of the growing docks show the transformation of the landscape from pastoral to industrial. 
Interestingly, the dock was not a great success at first;a 1965 newspaper report shows that it was considered a 'white elephant' until the coming of the oil refineries. Even so, the exhibition is a comprehensive record of the pace of change; a photo of the Immingham tram next to the double-decker bus that killed it off - Harold Gosney's sketches for his optimistic 'family of man' sculpture on the now semi-derelict shopping centre, and a photo of the long defunct Tor-line passenger ships are among the exhibits.
If this sounds pessimistic, it is good to reflect that Immingham is now one of the most prosperous ports in the UK. 
Of course, where you have docks you have pubs, and the Monkey,Pig and Pie Cafe currently has a complementary exhibition on Grimsby's pubs, including a display of Hewitt's memorobilia.  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:39:48 +0100</pubDate><category>Updates</category></item><item><title>Havelok in Oxford</title><link>http://iloapp.grimsbycleecivic.co.uk/blog/www?Home&amp;post=82</link><description><![CDATA[   Stranger than Fiction:  Saturday morning, during a Heritage railtour to Oxford, we received an email saying former NELC archivist John Wilson was quoted in the morning's  Grimsby Telegraph  saying the Grimsby town seal was featured in an exhibition at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.  
   
 Some hours later, in the subdued lighting of the exhibition, we were able to see the wax impression of the thirteenth century Havelok seal displayed alongside original manuscripts, a 1609 edition of Pericles, and a typed letter from the film censor asking for changes to the script of Monty Python &amp; the Holy Grail. 
 The free exhibition,  The Romance of the Middle Ages , began 28th January and runs until 13th May.The accompanying book by Nicholas Perkins and Alison Wiggins is an amusing guide to mediaeval romance (One version of Sir Gawain is described as having, "the franchise-weariness of Roger Moore's later James Bond films: punchlines delivered, enemies dispatched..but without much conviction.") 
   
 The book, available from  www.bodleianbookshop.co.uk , also reproduces the Grimsby town seal and describes the Havelok manuscript as satisying, "a desire for origin stories that smooth the jagged edges of invasion and conquest.." 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:55:07 +0100</pubDate><category>Updates</category></item><item><title>For Those in Peril on the Sea</title><link>http://iloapp.grimsbycleecivic.co.uk/blog/www?Home&amp;post=81</link><description><![CDATA[  The hard-won heritage of Grimsby fishing attracted a record attendance of non-members when Dr Stephen Bloy spoke at Grimsby, Cleethorpes &amp; District Civic Society.   While talks on history are often popular, extra chairs had to be brought into the Banqueting Room at Grimsby Town Hall after an unexpected rush of non-members arrived to hear the lecture on Thursday 19th April.   Entitled, "For Those in Peril on the Sea", Dr Stephen Bloy's talk was inspired by the memorial statue to Grimsby Fishermen in St James Square, "As wonderful as the statue is," said Dr Bloy, "I am not going to talk about its merits as a piece of sculpture. I am going to talk about what it means and represents. "   The talk focused on the period from 1840 to the early 1900's when the Grimsby fishing industry grew at a massive rate to become one of the major centres of the world's fishing industry.   
   
 Grimsby Town Hall was an appropriate venue on Thursday 19th April for a slide show which followed the creation of the fishing industry by the rail companies. Having built Grimsby Docks, the rail companies tempted fishing smack owners up from areas such as Barking with offers such as free housing, and free rail carriage of fish for three years.    Dr Bloy also created in the minds of the audience a picture of the terrible conditions on board fishing smacks, the constant wet and cold for weeks on end, the dangerous technique of transferring the catch by rowing boat to a support ship, and the virtual slave labour conditions of the boy apprentices.     
 ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:23:12 +0100</pubDate><category>Updates</category></item><item><title>World War 1 Tea Party and Flypast</title><link>http://iloapp.grimsbycleecivic.co.uk/blog/www?Home&amp;post=80</link><description><![CDATA[   Friends of Cleethorpes Heritage  put on a great World War 1 Tea Party Yesterday, crowned by a flypast from a DH Biplane. The party was held in Hall of Cleethorpes Baptist Chapel where members of the Manchester Regiment were killed during a Zeppelin raid.  
   
 Happily, this was a happier occasion which demonstrates that if you give the people what they want, they will turn up. More coverage  on this link to the Grimsby Telegraph and Cleethorpes People website.  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:49:31 +0100</pubDate><category>Updates</category></item><item><title>Victorian Love Triangle</title><link>http://iloapp.grimsbycleecivic.co.uk/blog/www?Home&amp;post=79</link><description><![CDATA[  A Victorian Love Triangle with a difference was the subject of Alan Dowling's talk at our afternoon tea on 21st March. 
 The Young Visiters was written in 1890, by nine year old Daisy Ashford. Many years later, Daisy found the exercise book in a drawer. It was passed to a reader at Chatto and Windus who saw the comic potential of publishing the book exactly as it was written. 
   
 Much of the humour arises from Daisy's childish phrasing and depiction of grown up romance. The audience was entertained by Alan's reading of Daisy's tale of Ethel Monticue, and her pursuit by Mr Salteena ("an elderly man of 42 who was fond of asking people to stay with him"). 
 Held at Number 1 Cromwell Road, Cleethorpes, the afternoon tea was the first of several daytime events planned by the civic Society.  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:14:59 +0000</pubDate><category>Updates</category></item><item><title>Residents learn about Heritage Assets</title><link>http://iloapp.grimsbycleecivic.co.uk/blog/www?Home&amp;post=78</link><description><![CDATA[  Over 40 residents, including councillors, local business people and the man and woman in the street attended our “Heritage Assets Conference” at Grimsby Town Hall. 
   
 Hugh Winfield, Archaeologist and Historic Environment Record Officer spoke about the Local List of Historic Assets of Special Interest. Grimsby has had a local list for many years. Some of the buildings on that list have been demolished, while others have been given Statutory Listing. North East Lincolnshire Council is now working with groups such as the Civic Society to provide balance across the area by drawing up local lists for Cleethorpes and Immingham. 
   
 Jake Newby, Lead Planning Officer for NELC said people deserve the best surroundings they can get and encouraged residents to take an interest in the decisions that formed their surroundings. 
 Planning may often seem to arise on a whim, but it was actually based upon complex decisions seeking to find a balance between the extremes of centralised state control and total market freedom. Decisions must be backed up by evidence; a building is not preserved just because it is old, but because it is significant.  
 Conservation Officer Liz Mayle spoke about the duties which planning regulations put on a local authority. She also talked about the 16 Conservation Areas in North East Lincolnshire, ranging from Scartho to the Fitties, "one of the most unusual areas I've looked after," and Cleethorpes Sea Front, "where else can you step off a train onto the beach?"  
 While not a case worker, she provides specialist advice to planning officers, drawing on her experience and detailed guidance from English Heritage. Returning to the theme of significance, Liz explained that historic interest was not just age, but what the building or place represented.  
 At the end of the afternoon, the 40 plus residents who attended had a clearer idea of the wide range of significant historic assets on our doorsteps, how they are identified, what legal protection is available from Government and Local Authority and what steps must be taken to ensure that they survive. 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:43:22 +0000</pubDate><category>Updates</category></item><item><title>Welcome to Grimsby</title><link>http://iloapp.grimsbycleecivic.co.uk/blog/www?Home&amp;post=77</link><description><![CDATA[  Continuing the rail theme, for the past year the Heritage Committee has been negotiating with Network Rail and the local authority to replace the aged and weathered "Welcome to Grimsby" sign which was finally removed from the approach to Grimsby Rail Station. 
   
 This sign is now in place, opposite Hampton House. It bears both the logo of the Civic Society, which paid for the sign, and the Grimsby crest, with the agreement of the Charter Trustees . 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:22:44 +0000</pubDate><category>Updates</category></item><item><title>Oliver Cromwell at Cleethorpes</title><link>http://iloapp.grimsbycleecivic.co.uk/blog/www?Home&amp;post=76</link><description><![CDATA[  Civic Society members were out on Saturday to support the welcome organised by Cleethorpes Renaissance Town Team and Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust for the Lincolnshire Poacher. 
   
 The train, organised by the Railway Touring Company, brought visitors from Kings Cross to Cleethorpes and once again a reception was organised with Piper John Best  playing the visitors in.  
 You can see  photo's from the day at this link , and hopefully it will encourage rail tour companies to keep the area in mind for next year's anniversary of rail coming to Cleethorpes. 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 11:16:02 +0000</pubDate><category>Updates</category></item><item><title>Heritage Assets Conference</title><link>http://iloapp.grimsbycleecivic.co.uk/blog/www?Home&amp;post=75</link><description><![CDATA[  The  Grimsby Telegraph  reports on the forthcoming Heritage Assets Conference.  
 Organised by Grimsby, Cleethorpes and District Civic Society, it will take place in the Bremerhaven Room, at Grimsby Town Hall, on Wednesday, March 14, from 1.30pm to 4.30pm. It aims to explore the different methods which exist for identifying local buildings of architectural and historical significance. 
 Three speakers from the local authority will be joined by a speaker from Peterborough who will talk about radical steps which were taken to get rid of garish 1960s buildings in the city. 
 Jason Longhurst, head of development services at North East Lincolnshire Council, is quoted in the article as saying: "We are pleased to be able to support the Grimsby, Cleethorpes And District Civic Society at its spring conference. 
 "The work of the Civic Society is hugely important to us in protecting and enhancing the historic assets in the borough, such as in the production of our local lists." 
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