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Grimsby 15 QUIZ QUESTIONS based on towns and Cleethorpes & district villages in North East Lincolnshire Civic Society Encouraging pride and interest where you live ANSWERS Unscramble letters to find village names Laceby (‘2’ indicates 2 words in the name): cabley New Waltham 1 lamthewnaw (2) Wold Newton towelndnow (2) Hatcliffe ethicalff What streets make up the 5-ways? Park St, Wellington St, Durban Rd, Carr Lane, 2 Queen Mary Avenue What is GY 398 better known as? Ross Tiger the traditional side-winder fishing 3 trawler moored at Fishing Heritage Centre The word GATE id derived from Old • Bargate Norse ‘gat’, meaning road or path, • Brighowgate and originally referred to the gap in • Cartergate a wall, fence or route over a marsh, • Deansgate rather than a barrier which we • East St Mary’s gate (MacDonald’s corner) more commonly think of as being a • Eastgate ‘gate’. • Flottergate 4 • New Cartergate (from Fair Deal carpets to In the 1910 Street Directory for Freshney; cartergate/Lord street corner) Grimsby and Cleethorpes there are • South St Mary’s gate (between Bethlehem St 11 Gates as street names. How and Osborne St the ‘south side’ of the other Avenues many exist today? and the St Mary’s gates!) like are not acceptable answers! • Wellowgate • West St Mary’s gate (Yorkshire Bank corner) Modern day: Westgate A180, Abbeygate In recent years, we’ve had St James • Dial Square Square / Minster Square and even • Flour Square Riverhead Square – none of which • Hainton Square are actual addresses. • Humber Square (off Humber St. no longer in existence) 5 What Squares were listed as place • Market Square names in the 1910 Street Directory • Riby Square for Grimsby and Cleethorpes? • Town Hall Square • Trinity Square (off Trinity St. no longer in existence) Grimsby Cleethorpes and District Civic Society www.grimsbycleecivsoc.com Charity No. 505255 What year was Peaks Parkway’s 6 2014 speed limit changed to 40mph? What year did The Barge arrive in 1982 7 the Riverhead? What happened in Yarborough 8 Hotel on St Valentine’s day 1862? Election riot; windows and furniture broken There wasn’t much love around! Philip and Sara Stanford’s The Charity makes available educational grants Educational Foundation of 1720 is to the under-25s living in the area of benefit 9 for the benefit of who and from around Laceby. where? A Ward is an administrative division 1. Immingham represented by elected councillors. 2. Park 3. Wolds How many NEL Wards are there? 4. East Marsh 5. Waltham 6. Heneage 7. Scartho 10 8. South 9. Humberston and New Waltham 10. West Marsh 11. Haverstoe 12. Yarborough 13. Croft Baker 14. Freshney 15. Sydney Sussex 1 of NEL’s most southern villages, Hawerby cum Beesby, became part of Grimsby Registration district in Caistor – abolished as a Registration District in 11 1897 with many others. What was 2003 to become part of Lincolnshire the Registration district before Registration District 1897 for ‘these many others’ including Grimsby? Geographically, which is the odd Keelby is in west Lindsey part of Lincolnshire) 12 one out: Laceby, Brigsley, Keelby, and therefore not part of North East Habrough? Lincolnshire ( ‘thorpe’ – Old English / Norse for village 13 Itterby, Oole and Thrunscoe What are the 3 villages or ‘thorpes’ that make up Cleethorpes? According to Wikipedia, its average annual rainfall is amongst the lowest Cleethorpes has amongst the 14 in the British Isles. lowest what in the British Isles? 1920s local education included Grimsby Girls’ High School at Bank Wheatsheaf public house on the corner of 15 House. Bargate and Welholme Road What is this building now? Grimsby Cleethorpes and District Civic Society www.grimsbycleecivsoc.com Charity No. 505255 .