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When his banking business failed he was forced to sell the property. [2] It was bought in 1828 by Sir Francis Wood, 2nd Baronet of Hemsworth and Garrowby, and on his death in 1846 passed to his son Charles Wood, 3rd Baronet (1800–1885). Charles Wood was MP for Grimsby, Wareham, Halifax and Ripon.
Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town in Lincolnshire, England with a population of 86,138 (as of 2021). It is located near the mouth on the south bank of the Humber that flows to the North Sea. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation.
Freshney Place is a shopping centre in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire. [3] Located in the centre of Grimsby, it is visited annually by 14 million shoppers and employs over 2,000 retail workers. [4] The centre houses over 100 stores, [4] with the anchor stores of Marks and Spencer, Next, Primark, Deichmann and Game from 2018. [5]
Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies , it was first contested at the 2024 general election and has been represented in Parliament by Melanie Onn of the Labour Party since then. [ 2 ]
Following the grant of a court of quarter sessions to the borough of Grimsby in 1891, [1] [2] hearings were typically held in the courtroom in Grimsby Town Hall. [3] However, as the number of court cases in Grimsby grew, it became necessary to commission a courthouse with dedicated facilities for both Crown Court hearings, which require courtrooms suitable for trial by jury, and for County ...
For centuries the boundary between Grimsby's West Marsh and the parish of Little Coates lay roughly along the line formed by present-day Pywipe Road and Boulevard Avenue. . The West Marsh was used as common land, however around 1514 this land was subject to an act of enclosure and these common rights were curtailed as the area was divided between local dignitar
The Boundary Act [which?] in concert with the Reform Act 1832 enlarged the borough to include eight neighbouring parishes [n 5], brought the population up to 6,413 with 1,365 houses but the landed property aspect to the franchise was not reformed so this increased the electorate only to 656 so Great Grimsby lost one of its two seats. However ...
Above the first floor windows were six roundels depicting key people in the town's history: King Edward III (who granted land to the town's freemen), Archbishop John Whitgift (who was born in the town), Gervase Holles, (who served as a local member of parliament during the English Civil War), Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough (who served ...