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Here are the new
By Arthur Webster of Ask Old Coot
My brother recently offered a photograph for sale. It was of Grimsby Dock Station and dated from 1962. A little write up about the photograph got me to thinking about how, on a slow news day, it could be used to create an interesting story. So I wrote one. "This image of Grimsby Dock Station is representative of the great resilience and tenacity of the local councils and citizens of the United Kingdom. Who could have guessed that just a few short years before this image was made, the skies above were rent by the passage of swarms of Wellington and Lancaster bombers tearing across the Humber estuary on their way to occupied Europe. The station, at this time, had been a significant branch in the rail arterial network of England and was used for the supply of warships that limped into the Grimsby and Immingham docks areas. In even earlier times, 1930, the station was witness to one of the most magnificent sights created by a man-made flying machine as the R101 airship passed over-head. Very few people who witnessed this great monster of the air (nearly 800 feet long) were aware that they were seeing her for the last time. She flew to Beauvais in France and crashed in nearby woods. This crash led to one of the most remarkable events in the psychic world. For some time after the R101 crashed killing all the passengers and most of the crew, seances were held at which a Lt Irwin gave high speed verbal reports of the minute by minute performance of R101. The seances were recorded by short-hand writers and gave rise to many books but they have never been explained. During the First World war the Dock Station was used as a recruiting post as well as bringing wounded and stressed troops to the relative peace and quiet of the east coast in order to recover enough to be sent back 'to the front'. The station was often used as a rallying point - especially when raiders came over dropping incendiary and anti personel mines and butterfly bombs. Since this image was made, there has been a reduction of the line to a single track, reflecting the fall off in fishing and the importation of raw materials and ores for smelting." Every picture tells a story - you just have to organise the words in the correct order.
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Contributor's Note
Here is the news?
Here are the new?
Can they both be right?
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Kevin Walsham
Grimsby Dock Station
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You for got to mention Grimsby's claim to fame - that Grimsby was founded by "Grim" a Danish Viking leader and "by" meant "village" - hence, Grim's by.
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True - but the bigger claim to fame is that Grimsby Town Foorball Club NEVER palyed a home game.
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