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Memories of a golden age for Scunthorpe steel when almost 20,000 were...

The various works operating in the town in 1968 simply could not get enough people to fill all the jobs available

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Nuclear missiles were a short drive from Grimsby and nearly destroyed it

During the Cold War RAF bases near Grimsby were base to Thor nuclear missiles controlled from a village near Scunthorpe

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Butterfly bombs bring terror in the morning after Grimsby’s worst night

Cluster bombs are a scourge of modern warfare. Seventy-five years ago, the people of Grimsby and Cleethorpes were the first civilians to experience their mass use

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Remembering the awe-inspiring sight of Concorde flying in to Humberside Airport

With North East Lincolnshire welcoming a host of aerial displays for Armed Forces weekend, Mark Page looks back on when, aged 8, he saw Concorde fly in to Humberside Airport

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The Grimsby man who started England’s long love-hurt relationship with the...

The remarkable rise of former Grimsby fish merchant and Grimsby Town chairman to the highest rank in FIFA and his role in the 1966 World Cup triumph

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10 of the most chilling urban legends from Grimsby and northern Lincolnshire

From ghosts to panic over reports of supermarket child snatchers, we look at myths and legends in Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Scunthorpe

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Can you remember this unexpected slithery visitor biting a man after turning...

A metre-long corn snake, usually found in Central America, bit a man after being discovered outside a house on Coningsby Road in July 2003

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The railway worker who saved Brigg from a major disaster - and was given a £1...

Walter Ward was working in a signal box in the town when a fire broke out on an ammunition train carrying 500 tons of high explosive

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The Grimsby man who invented the space shuttle

Tom Smith helped design many of the best aircraft of the Cold War but his most ambitious project was to put Britain at the head of the space race with a shuttle called Mustard

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Remembering Tiffany's nightclub in Grimsby when 1,800 people used to cram in...

The Wintringham Road club was a popular venue for party-goers from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s and regularly drew in 1,800 people on Saturday nights

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Check out these amazing 1960s adverts from a Grimsby Town season book

From TV rentals and tobacco shops to football boots and sweets, these adverts from 1965 offer a reminder of days gone by

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The Riverhead shopping precinct - when perms and miniskirts ruled before...

The transformation of Grimsby's shopping area over the last 50 years has seen hundreds of once popular stores come and go - but what did you like about the way it used to be?

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10 lost pubs of Grimsby and Cleethorpes from the Ropewalk to the Longboat

Content writer Abby Ruston takes a look at some of the pubs we have lost over the years in North East Lincolnshire

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Remembering when continental cafe culture came to Scunthorpe town centre 15...

The project was launched in August 2003 on Ravendale Street as a joint effort between cafes, restaurants and North Lincolnshire Council

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Take a look back at five more lost pubs of Grimsby from the Kent Arms to the...

Content writer Abby Ruston takes a look at more of the pubs we have lost over the years in North East Lincolnshire

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When a German invasion fleet sailed to Grimsby and spies skulked around the...

Grimsby and Immingham docks were a prime target for a German invasion before the First World War

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Miss England contests, food from 10p and plenty of fun - memories of Tiffanys...

Tiffanys nightclub was one of the most popular venues in Scunthorpe and welcomed revellers for almost a decade

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Looking back at more than 100 years of Marks and Spencer in Grimsby from its...

It's a high street institution with a presence in Grimsby for 117 years, Abby Ruston takes a look through the archives

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From a Mucky Duck to White Bears and a Rat's Nest - we look at five more lost...

These latest lost pubs have strange nicknames and even stranger tales as Abby Ruston discovers in the archives

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The forgotten network of wartime defences buried deep in the woods near Grimsby

We take our Stop The Rot campaign into the woods to uncover a slowly decaying wartime asset in need of protection

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