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I lived the first 18 years of my life in Cleethorpes, and having never lived anywhere else at the time it was hard to view it objectively. It was just ‘Meggies’ to me.
Having lived away for the past 18 years, and having had chance to live and visit a lot more places in this country, you realise what an underrated place it really is - both as a resort and a place to live.
There are more famous seaside resorts in the north, like Scarborough and Blackpool. And yeah, the beach and sea might be a little nicer in Scarborough, and Blackpool has more attractions, but as a place to visit Cleethorpes wins hands down. It’s certainly a lot less ‘tacky’ than both of those places, both of which are very run down.
I’ve never felt prouder of the place than on Armed Forces weekend a couple of years ago. The sun shining, the place buzzing. Great to see.
I’ve often thought there’s an innate pessimism built into people from this part of the world (myself included), even when trying to be positive. “I can think of worse places”. Let’s not do that, it’s a great place in its own right.
If you’ve never lived away from Grimsby / Cleethorpes, you won’t fully appreciate it, but it’s a fantastic thing to have the sea on your doorstep (I’m not going to enter the debate as to whether it’s an estuary). And it is a beautiful seafront, whether you can find fault in it or not.
I always love coming back. It’s a place deserving of a much better reputation than it gets in my opinion.
It will always be home to me.
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Wow, what a brilliantly-written article, well done Phoebe. It makes me want to go myself..... and I live here!
I didn't realise taking acid was still so popular
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It's currently wet and windy, but I am about to set off for a stroll along the prom all the way to the yacht club. I never get bored of it.
Meggies is really rather nice and getting better each year. There are lots of new cafes and businesses opening and much renovation work going on. It's also getting more popular, which may be down to lockdown, but it's rare to go along the seafront at any time, in any weather and not see quite a lot of people around. In the summer months, it was positively heaving.
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I really hope the bloke from Cloves B&B says 'don't have nightmares' as he hands guests their key.
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Just to be pedantic, there is no RIVER Humber, it is just an estuary. The Humber was formed when two rivers, the Ouse and Trent met and flowed towards the sea to form the Humber Estuary. Since it hasn't got a source of it's own it cannot be called a river.
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Me the wife and the little one went down to the seafront yesterday and spent some time in the arcades before having a lovely meal out at Valentino's. In recent years we've come to appreciate Cleethorpes a lot more for what it offers instead of taking it for granted.
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Just to be pedantic, there is no RIVER Humber, it is just an estuary. The Humber was formed when two rivers, the Ouse and Trent met and flowed towards the sea to form the Humber Estuary. Since it hasn't got a source of it's own it cannot be called a river.
Congratulations on the confluence of my two great loves, fluvial nomenclature and pedantry.
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I miss cleethorpes so much!! I always take my son down and around every single time I come back home.
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Me the wife and the little one went down to the seafront yesterday and spent some time in the arcades before having a lovely meal out at Valentino's. In recent years we've come to appreciate Cleethorpes a lot more for what it offers instead of taking it for granted.
It was nice of Hursty to join you.
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Just to be pedantic, there is no RIVER Humber, it is just an estuary. The Humber was formed when two rivers, the Ouse and Trent met and flowed towards the sea to form the Humber Estuary. Since it hasn't got a source of it's own it cannot be called a river.
Absolutely correct but let's keep it to ourselves as since it's tidal all the way to Gainsborough we don't want the mudrats changing their name to Hull on sea do we? 😉
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