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Post by Barmy on Jun 3, 2016 11:41:48 GMT
A question that I occasionally ask myself of other people.
Although the towns share a border and more recently a local authority. I always feel that there are some not so subtle differences. One of the many places I notice this is on Cod Almighty. As well as todays Diary praising Cleethorpes whilst trying to say that Grimsby is a decaying crap hole, there is also the Grimmo Dictionary, full of words that I as a Grimbarian have/had never heard.
Its about where you were brought up as opposed to where you were born. I went to school in Grimsby, lived in Grimsby, my parents are both from Grimsby, as I started to go out in my teens we very rarely strayed into Meggies, preferring Grimsbys Town Centre, The Wheatsheaf and occasionally Freemo. Freemo incidentally was just about the only word we shortened and put an O on. Grimsby was just called Grimsby not Grimmo and Cleethorpes Boating Lake was just the Boating Lake not the Boato.
Just a bit of Rambling but it'd be interesting to hear your views and find out which side of the divide you feel you are from. I also think this thing stays with you, after all I've lived in Mablethorpe since 1989 and I still say I'm from Grimsby, and I'm quite proud of it.
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Post by thatcuntswin on Jun 3, 2016 11:55:19 GMT
I was born at Croft Baker, went to St Peters then Clee Grammar, lived just off the Kingsway until I got married and spent many happy hours as a kid around the Boato, had my first pint in the Lifeboat and have always considered myself a 'Meggie'
My first house in Claremont Rd was in Grimsby - just (by about 100 yards)
Piss ups always started in Cleethorpes Lifeboat, Notts, Dolphin, No 2 Refresh then went on to Grimsby either Freemo or Old Market area
Whenever anyone asks however I always say I am from Grimsby - I find it attracts less mirth and piss taking than Cleethorpes!
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Post by diehardmariner on Jun 3, 2016 13:59:15 GMT
Born in Croft Baker, lived in Grimsby (bar a spell in Lincoln at Uni) until I was 24. Lived in Cleethorpes ever since.
Class myself as a Meggie but when people ask where I'm from I say Grimsby. If I'm honest I don't see Grimsby and Cleethorpes as separate places, more Cleethorpes as a large suburb of Grimsby.
Regardless, I'm very proud of where I'm from. There's some shitholes in North East Lincolnshire (just like everywhere else!) but there's some absolutely wonderful areas too. I love the fact we've a great beach and within a few miles on my bike I'm out in the Wolds, which are a truly magnificent sight and in my opinion a bit of a hidden gem.
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Post by kingstonmariner on Jun 3, 2016 18:18:39 GMT
Seems us Meggies are outnumbering you GYpos Barmy. But I probably more often say I'm from Grimsby than from Cleethorpes to people outside the region. Born at a young age in my mum's bedroom (so a rare non-Croft Bakerite), Bursar St and Lindsey then uni and mostly exile from the early 80s. Tried moving back a few years ago but the job I had in Sheff was a shitun - fortunately hadn't sold up down here. Will take a few years to persuade the missus to move up again (hopefully it won't have been overrun by downshifting hipsters by then).
Some of the Grimmo dictionary words were new to me to. I think it's probably an age thing - different words came along later I reckon. 'Boke' and 'beeling' were Yorkie dialect as far as I was concerned - never heard them til a classmate moved to Barnsley and he came back to visit with a load of new words like those two and lerging/laiking (playing). Don't remember 'boato' either but we did used to go to the batho.
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Post by GollyGTFC on Jun 3, 2016 19:29:25 GMT
I'm neither. Although my dad has born in Scartho & after his mum died brought up on Scawby Road, Nunsthorpe by his Grandma. My missus has lived all over the place: Grimsby; New Waltham, Healing & finally Cleethorpes where I met her. I was born and raised in Grantham. Which makes me a Granthamian. It pains me to say my son was born at Lincoln Hospital. Although the maternity unit at Grantham Hospital was still open back then, anyone with even the smallest of complications had to choose between Boston, Lincoln, Leicester, Peterborough & Nottingham.
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Post by Barmy on Jun 3, 2016 20:01:37 GMT
I was born in the other side of the world but my parents decided to come back home. My girls were both born in Grimsby but brought up in Mablethorpe.
KM I used to love summer days at the batho.
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Post by kingstonmariner on Jun 3, 2016 22:49:03 GMT
The batho was ace. Would leave home on a Saturday morning with a few bob in my pocket, a couple of slices of buttered bread in an old bread wrapper and buy a packet of cheese and onion (crisp sarnies, mmmmm) and a bottle of ready made up orange squash from the milk man on the way to my mates. We'd wait the rest of the morning on the tarmac while the sun took the chill off the water. Copped my first eyeful of real boobies when a lass in our year (who was prodigiously 'forward') lost the top half of her bikini on one of those fountains that people sat on.
Shame they got rid of the old pool because open water swimming is de rigeur now.
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Post by ginnywings on Jun 3, 2016 23:04:49 GMT
Another Meggie here who was also born in my mam's bedroom. Lived in Grimbo for a while when i met my ex wife but never felt right there. Lived in Cleethorpes since and now live in Old Clee area but it is actually just inside the Grimsby border. Feels like Clee though. Went to Lindsey same as Kingston but didn't go to uni as nobody did back then except the really posh kids. I've used the term boato in my youth and recognised most, if not all of the Grimmo dictionary on Cod Almighty. Been around the country a fair bit and Cleethorpes is ok compared to some of the places i've been but obviously there is better. 'Tother half is from Rugby via Mablethorpe and she loves it here. Like most of you i say i'm from Grimsby if asked, don't know why. Think people recognise it more than they do Cleethorpes, so that's probably the reason. Remember the Batho fondly. The hot summers of 75 and 76 will live long in the memory and it's a shame it's gone along with the Winter Gardens where i spent many a happy night.
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Post by exmerseymariner on Jun 6, 2016 18:46:40 GMT
Grimbarian.
But right on the edge; lived mainly in Great Coates, went to Wybers, then Healing Comp; think that Great Coates is marginally in Grimsby, and Healing marginally out; if the road signs are the same.....
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Post by kingstonmariner on Jun 6, 2016 21:06:18 GMT
Another Meggie here who was also born in my mam's bedroom. Lived in Grimbo for a while when i met my ex wife but never felt right there. Lived in Cleethorpes since and now live in Old Clee area but it is actually just inside the Grimsby border. Feels like Clee though. Went to Lindsey same as Kingston but didn't go to uni as nobody did back then except the really posh kids. I've used the term boato in my youth and recognised most, if not all of the Grimmo dictionary on Cod Almighty. Been around the country a fair bit and Cleethorpes is ok compared to some of the places i've been but obviously there is better. 'Tother half is from Rugby via Mablethorpe and she loves it here. Like most of you i say i'm from Grimsby if asked, don't know why. Think people recognise it more than they do Cleethorpes, so that's probably the reason. Remember the Batho fondly. The hot summers of 75 and 76 will live long in the memory and it's a shame it's gone along with the Winter Gardens where i spent many a happy night. Opinionated, argumentative herberts from council estates went to uni in my day.  |
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