Proud to be from Grimsby

No point getting misty eyed about print based local media, we have the memories...keep them and cherish them because it’s not returning.

It’s the same the world over. The world famous Gazetta Della Sport has seen a decline in sales world wide and the content hasn’t even dwindled...habits change.

I’ve always and will always be proud of being from Grimsby. Happy to say I am and couldn’t care less what folk think. Lived in Lincoln for years...I think it made me more Grimsby. They’re odd folk there so some were fine. Some would make ridiculous snide comments as if their city only exists within a ten minute walk from the cathedral.

Grimsby is our town. We can say what we want but it’s our and I think real local folk will always stand up for the town. Those that disappear off to uni and slag it off and the usual aren’t really folk and can keep their received pronunciation accent and lack of identity and intercourse off...

Quoted from aldi_01

No point getting misty eyed about print based local media, we have the memories...keep them and cherish them because it’s not returning.

It’s the same the world over. The world famous Gazetta Della Sport has seen a decline in sales world wide and the content hasn’t even dwindled...habits change.

I’ve always and will always be proud of being from Grimsby. Happy to say I am and couldn’t care less what folk think. Lived in Lincoln for years...I think it made me more Grimsby. They’re odd folk there so some were fine. Some would make ridiculous snide comments as if their city only exists within a ten minute walk from the cathedral.

Grimsby is our town. We can say what we want but it’s our and I think real local folk will always stand up for the town. Those that disappear off to uni and slag it off and the usual aren’t really folk and can keep their received pronunciation accent and lack of identity and intercourse off...

Slagging off one's home town or region is often a sign of insecurity and can be an unattractive trait. Youngsters going off to Uni are subject to many pressures and prejudices. A brilliant schoolfriend of mine tells of the social isolation he felt at Cambridge Uni 50 years ago. For me, leaving a small N. Lincs village and going to college at Sheffield was an education in itself. Much fun was had mutually mocking our Geordie, Welsh, Sussex, Yorkie and Brummie accents. All taken in good heart and I don't recall any tears or fisticuffs.
Strangely, my Immingham born wife mimics my accent but makes it sound like 'Farmer Giles'! A professor friend, born in a Barnsley pit village, lectures around the World and gives media interviews in a broad Yorkshire accent. Embracing your local identity can be a real positive but not everyone can pull it off.
If I had to choose a 'Bow Bells' location for my accent/ identity it would be Kirmington Church.

Whoever use to live on my paper round in the 70’s always got their copy of the Football second hand!
I use to read them in between houses, so if you lived on the Willows in them days, unlucky.😂😂😂😎
UTMM

When I first moved to Suffolk a work colleague who was proper Suffolk tried taking the pea out of my accent.

I just replied jokingly anybody talking like you can not take the micky out of somebody like me .

All good banter.😃

Quoted from grimsby pete

When I first moved to Suffolk a work colleague who was proper Suffolk tried taking the pea out of my accent.

I just replied jokingly anybody talking like you can not take the micky out of somebody like me .

All good banter.😃

I lived in Suffolk for at least 20 years before a local spoke to me never mind taking the urine out of my accent

Quoted from Croxton

Slagging off one's home town or region is often a sign of insecurity and can be an unattractive trait. Youngsters going off to Uni are subject to many pressures and prejudices. A brilliant schoolfriend of mine tells of the social isolation he felt at Cambridge Uni 50 years ago. For me, leaving a small N. Lincs village and going to college at Sheffield was an education in itself. Much fun was had mutually mocking our Geordie, Welsh, Sussex, Yorkie and Brummie accents. All taken in good heart and I don't recall any tears or fisticuffs.
Strangely, my Immingham born wife mimics my accent but makes it sound like 'Farmer Giles'! A professor friend, born in a Barnsley pit village, lectures around the World and gives media interviews in a broad Yorkshire accent. Embracing your local identity can be a real positive but not everyone can pull it off.
If I had to choose a 'Bow Bells' location for my accent/ identity it would be Kirmington Church.

Funny that. You sound more Sheffield to me! No trace of joskin, or Guy Martin. And I sound like a soft southern tw@ apart from when I say bus, bath, laugh etc (I hope).

Good summary of the range of experiences by the way. Different accents, dialects and figures of speech are great and worth preserving. Harder in some ways now. Young people are more likely dealing with more international accents and versions of English  and levels of comprehension (often multiple in one conversation - work throws up some odd mixes).

Quoted from Ipswin

I lived in Suffolk for at least 20 years before a local spoke to me never mind taking the urine out of my accent

Only 20?

Quoted from jock dock tower

Only 20?

Yes, 20 years I remember it vividly. A local knuckle dragging Tractor Boy knocked on my door and said 'move your flipping car'

When I was in Limerick the locals couldn't were simply content that my accent was "not posh" and some kind of north-general accent (I'm actually a North Lincs / Lancashire blend - due 12 years in Burnley Preston Manchester); apparently some Anglo-Irish that were interviewed for the Limerick job sounded more English than me - I think they meant more-posh. Helped me get the offered job - criterion being not some stuck up English public school twit...

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Pretty sure it was 1899.

And know that first bit on Wiki says 1898 but that para also has the foundation year (right) so any lazy journo using Wiki must have missed that. The main sections on history and the stadium says 1899 so, like Deuteronomy*, the Wiki entry is ambiguous.

* reference for anyone who did A Man for All Seasons at school (play about Padraig Amond, subtitled, ‘the Errors of Small Men’)

I remember the 100 year celebration game ( it was at home to Swindon ) where there was a commemorative medal / coin or something such like

30th August 1999

I didn't go to the game just remember desperately wanting to be there to celebrate but because it was Bank Holiday Monday I was in Cleethorpes taking the kids out for the day instead of being at BP