January 2022

I have decided to linger with Grimsby for a while. As previously identified, the Nunsthorpe local authority housing estate was started in the late 1930s. As such it must have been an example of Lindsey County Council’s response to government legislation of the mid-late 1930s prioritising house building in which to rehome families living in […]

To complete our time-traveller’s journey back in 1900 (see first five blogs of the section) he/she would travel south-east from Immingham to Grimsby. The photo above shows part of Cleethorpes ‘prom’ and the pier, the mound on the left is/are the ‘regularised sand dunes that were Cleethorpes natural sea defence before commercialization. In fact Cleethorpes

Today’s picture, admittantly only loosely relevant to the current topic, shows the grand cemeteryman’s house in Bridlington municipal cemetery. There were other ways of tackling rising damp in domestic properties (s.p.b.). One that can be found being used into the early 20th century was to insert, usually between the first and second courses of brick

Rising damp, that is wetness seeping up from the soil on which a property is built, can endanger the health of the inhabitants and compromise the strength of the building. This relates to the large-scale trend in the 20th century to build housing on flood plains, so-much-so that initially it was a trend that excited

Both Immingham and Scunthorpe have a varied collection of 20th century housing styles, much of it originally built as local authority housing. Various styles were pioneered in each community, both inter-War and post-War. The above photo. shows one such pioneering post-War style, the ‘Airey house’, so named from the surname of the architect/designer (the photo.

Moving east to Immingham in 1900 the town seen today did not exist because the building/excavation of the Dock was not started until 1906, eventually officially opened by King George V in 1912. As with Alexandra Dock in Hull opened in the 1870s, Immingham Dock was built to export coal from the South Yorkshire coalfield,