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LH
August 11, 2019, 11:51pm

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Anybody got one?

We usually go somewhere a bit more upmarket than we usually go for our tea on a Sunday on holiday and traded slumming it in Puerto del Carmen for the quieter Puerto Calero on Lanzarote tonight. On our walk around the marina afterwards we saw a sailing yacht with Grimsby written underneath the boats name. Anyone else seen anything unexpected?
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One of the teachers at my daughters’ school in New Malden is from Grimsby.


Through the door there came familiar laughter,
I saw your face and heard you call my name.
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser,
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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When I was in the Royal Navy (around 1990) we was on a Mediterranean tour for 5 months and whilst docked in Brindisi (Italy) I saw a lorry from Grimsby, it was parked up on the dock side.


Grimsby and proud!
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At our surgery my doctor is from China but one of the others is from Grimsby.


                             Over 36 years living in Suffolk but always a mariner.
                             68 Years following the Town

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I remember a few years ago staying at a remote(ish) holiday site location in France ( near to Compiegne/Soissons)

While out for a walk in this quiet countryside with the (ex)wife and kids, we came across a massive Town flag flying in the breeze next to one of the holiday homes

I guess it's probably not uncommon going to a popular holiday destination, say on the Med, and to see some Town paraphernalia, but to just see this flag, flying proudly, in a field in a remote part of France was quite a sight. Made me feel quite proud to be associated with our home town  
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On a Ski trip a few years back now we was in a place in Italy called Sauze d'Oulx , out in the evening one night I believe I had a Town top on and the Dj in this place we was in low and behold was a Town fan!

I remember hearing this MAAAAARINERS MAAAAARINERS look over to where its coming from and the Dj lifts up his T-shirt to reveal the town badge tattooed on his upper arm!!


Stand Up For The Mariners!!!!!
Stand Up For The Mariners!!!!!
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Not meeting anyone:  however, in the 1960s, a mate went to Scandinavia.  He came back with a little noddy nightcap and tassel with Grimsby Town embroiled on it in big letters.  No idea why this should have been produced with our name on it?
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I remember a few years ago staying at a remote(ish) holiday site location in France ( near to Compiegne/Soissons)

While out for a walk in this quiet countryside with the (ex)wife and kids, we came across a massive Town flag flying in the breeze next to one of the holiday homes

I guess it's probably not uncommon going to a popular holiday destination, say on the Med, and to see some Town paraphernalia, but to just see this flag, flying proudly, in a field in a remote part of France was quite a sight. Made me feel quite proud to be associated with our home town  


Sad that after posting this, some poor young kid from Hull drowned at the place I'd mentioned    RIP  
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September 13, 2019, 8:14pm

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Sad that after posting this, some poor young kid from Hull drowned at the place I'd mentioned    RIP  


Yes I saw that about the poor lad Tim we have stayed at that campsite a few times.


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Yes I saw that about the poor lad Tim we have stayed at that campsite a few times.


It's quite a lovely spot as well there Pete... going to be remembered now for all the wrong reasons for one poor family
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