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Yesterday evening I received some very bad news that the leisure centre I went to has shut down due to financial problems and has been made bankrupt! I wasn't surprised when I was told as I had sensed an atmosphere for ages but still it was a shock though! Like you said in the video part of me feels its a good thing that has happened as you said its time to move on and same with myself too!

I used to like going to that market years ago as they had lots of good stuff in there!

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No where for the tramps to piss now.😢

Sad to see the jobs go, but I much today shopping in todays world of Amazon and eBay. No longer paying an overpriced premium to the middleman, and you can find exactly what you want, capable of buying brands you'd never find in a small town.

They had a fast food joint called Kendalls there many years ago!

I was born and raised in Grimsby/Cleethorpes during the height of the fishing industry, before the infamous cod wars brought the whole thing tumbling down. I recognise almost all of those iconic buildings and have had beers in many of them. I left shortly after the legal age and didn’t go back for over 30 years and then again another 15 years later. What a tragedy. How to destroy and industry, a community and some fabulous architecture. The Winter Gardens hosted literally scores of what became the top named acts in the world.

From a good place to shop now looking forward what went wrong

So basically it started with the EEC/EU and ended with Brexit!

Brings back memories this does 😢. Remember as kids going on the market with my mum and Dad and would get the fruit and veg from the stalls and sometimes I'd get the pick & mix sweets from one of stalls 😢😢

Remember going in here with me nanna in the 70s, what a shame, nice video Will

Disgusting mate , 90s/early 2000s was the best days in town

Hi Will Ive learnt more from your videos than local estate agent. An fine example of local knowledge and skill. Massive thanks

Oh no.. another wonderful shopping experience of the past.. ripped away.. from us..times takes its toll..😥🌹

I remember when going into top town in general and specifically the market was a good day out.... Sadly there's nothing there anymore... And as a dad and grandad... No way would I want to take my kids or grandkids to a cinema up there... Sadly

I remember the fountain and cafe and antenna lol time flies half of fresney place is closed down now and the once great market is non existent pretty much sad cuz i live here

I'm from Grimsby. I moved away in 1988 to find work. Every time I go back, something has been boarded up, closed down, or a friend from the past has moved on. Aren't I the cheerful Charlie? 😂

why’s this make me sad 😂

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Looking good, Justin and team are great. Hopefully you’re going to have a nice holiday

Enjoyed this although I moved away in 1975

Great video Will. I got kicked out the Baton Rouge on my hen night but it was worth it.

Certainly a memory packed reminder of some of the places lost to a sign of the times. This vlog brought back the fun times of drinking & working in pubs (not at the same time..) The Clee Park was closed due to subsidence. Singers & groups used to play there weekly with Edna Keyes, Cardie, Blues Brothers & Country Western bands. Thanks for the reminder of how old I must be to remember nearly all of the places mentioned.

A sad reminder that all the shops in the current Freshney Place would have fitted within the old Riverhead Centre given that the part facing on to Victoria Street has so much empty space. RIP to Binns, BHS, Lawson & Stockdale, Woolworths, half of Boots, WH Smith and countless shoe and clothing shops. Now the big draw is Poundland, TK Max and Primark. I confess I still use Millets. Many thanks for refreshing my old memories.

My dad use to deliver coal to Hewitts brewery and my grandad who lived in church street had a stables and delivered beer to the pubs.

My memories also. Missing from your list would be the White Bear (Freeman St.), Cross Keys (High St. Cleethorpes), The Hitching Rail, The Oberon, The Oil Millers Arms (there a picture in the Duke of Wellington) and many more. Somewhere, I have a picture of The Imperial on Victoria St. It was opposite what is now the St. Andrews hospice shop. I look forward to further videos. Many thanks.

Proof, if any were needed, of how we have been let down by successive governments and our own council by lack of investment and regeneration. Criminal for a large town and it's inhabitants to be treated so badly by elected officials.

The architecture and art of the original precinct wins for me

brought back some good memories when shopping was fun great video

Nice trip down memory lane mate. Quite sad that so many pubs have gone. Remember going to see Bing Beales at the Market Hotel. Couldn't get in the door. What the hell do young people do nowadays?

Aww lovely family ❤

Winstons was actually in the Yarborough Hotel, where Wetherspoons is, i think i spent my 20s in there 😂, and i think The Bank was still Yarborough Vaults then

great memories cant believe that some ofmy old haunts have gone completely i remember seeing roxy music at the winter gardens

Interesting, if sad, video. There’s always a certain amount of change in pubs etc, my old man used to talk about others that closed in the 50s-70s, and replaced by new pubs in new developments. Some of those you showed were those new ones c1970. Some came and went quicker (the Art Bar on Alexandra Rd) some came and are still there (Tale of Two). But overall there seems a lot fewer - same all over the country. Definitely loads fewer clubs to go to (1/2 doz in Clee alone in early 80s). Bunny’s, Clouds & JDs (you mentioned), the Flam, the Pier and(last but not least 😁) the Barcelona.

The Friar Tuck! I remember it. We used to call it 'The Try a Fuck'.

Wimpy was near Woolworths in the precinct,I worked in Mister Minute shoe repairs and key cutting opposite the friar tuck pub.

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Sad seeing what a shell it has become, that’s what happens when you charge extortionate rents like they do. Used to be so much better especially the Thursday late night Xmas shopping.

Makes me angry that we have lost so much in this town it's been done on porpoise and this practice still continues today Grimsby council are to blame Grimsby had Hart and sole once we as residents have been made to accept how it is but we shouldn't the people need to take charge because the council has and is slowly stripping are identities away!!!

White knight my fav freemo pub. Great place so many great people many of whom no longer with us.

I've been to butlins I went to minehead

What a brilliant video so many memories my family where very involved with the Albion, 60's onwards

The late 2000's took a lot from us. I wonder what's next. 🤔☹

Great video mate, brought back some great memories thanks

Some cracking nights in "The Humber" and Albion

Some good nights in some of these pubs 😀

Great video !!!! A famous writer Thomas Wolfe wrote in 1940 , You Can Never Go Home Again " . When I first read that I thought he was writing nonsense but now I realise how right he was ! The Grimsby and Cleethorpes I knew in 1980 is long gone and I can never go home to there as it does not exist any more ? I wonder why the powers that be wanted to close everything down and often replace with dreary flats like The Winter Gardens and The Lifeboat ??? Perhaps they were miseries who hated people having a good time ? I have n't been in the area for 44 years as I live on the other side of the world but what puzzles me is WHY ? Why was so little creativity and style and artistry used to make changes ! The,"Tattersall Castle" Humber ferry is still moored on the Thames but "The Lincoln Castle" at Grimsby was just scrapped ??? Who were THESE people who made this place what it is TODAY ??? "The Ghost By The Coast" ???

epic.

Left the area but what a great nostalgic view of Gy when I were a lad and into my 20s ,shocking to see after watching other vids of all the lost history /businesses due to overall decline ...Tokyo Joe's with the prodigy was a highlight, Carl cox ,man what a time to be alive ,best friendships and after parties ever ,now some sadly departed ,strange the older we get the more fondly we look to our past ,a yearning for better times I suppose ,post covid world seems so much more unreal and depressive, chin up eh ,thanks for the memories 👍

Fantastic memories. Thanks 😊