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8 unusual facts about Cleethorpes


Bettye Swann

Her last public performance as Bettye Swann was in 2013, live in Cleethorpes.

Butterfly Bomb

Butterfly bombs were first used against Ipswich in 1940, but were also dropped on Grimsby and Cleethorpes in June 1943, amongst various other targets in the United Kingdom.

Defunct football clubs in Sheffield

Having to compete in Qualifying Rounds for the first time, they reached the first round by beating Long Eaton Rangers 1–0, Cleethorpes 4–1 and Nottingham Forest 2–1 and receiving a bye in the fourth qualifying round.

Gemma Merna

Gemma Ann Merna (born 11 October 1984 in Cleethorpes, England) is an English actress and glamour model.

Kerry William Purcell

Born in Cleethorpes, Purcell is a writer, design critic and historian.

Sophie Powles

Sophie Powles (born 16 September 1988), originally from Cleethorpes, a seaside town in North East Lincolnshire, is an English actress best known for her role as Holly Barton in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.

South Humber Rabbitohs

The club is closely linked with Grimsby RUFC, with players also coming from nearby Cleethorpes.

Vivean Gray

Vivean Gray (born Jean Vivra Gray; 20 July 1924 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire) is a British actress, who found her niche playing gossipy characters in Australian television series.


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Dore and Totley railway station

The station is served by the Northern Rail service between Sheffield and Manchester, East Midlands Trains (EMT) service from Liverpool to Norwich and the First TransPennine Express (TPE) service between Manchester and Cleethorpes, all three running via the Hope Valley Line.

Edmund Marshall

Marshall was educated at Humberstone Foundation School (also known as Clee Grammar School for Boys and became the comprehensive Matthew Humberstone School in September 1973) on Clee Road in Old Clee, Cleethorpes, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took double first class honours in mathematics and was awarded a University Junior Mathematical Prize in 1961.

Gemma Merna

Merna was born in Cleethorpes, but when she was one year old she moved to Didsbury from where both her parents came.

Grimsby Docks railway station

The station has the PlusBus scheme where train and bus tickets can be bought together at a saving: it is in the same area as Grimsby and Cleethorpes stations.

Humberside

Paul Bryan, the MP for Howden moved an amendment to the Bill that would have created a county of East Yorkshire, covering the rural area of northern Humberside along with Selby and York (and also Flaxton Rural District), leaving a Humberside including Haltemprice, Hull, Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Goole, whilst Cleethorpes and Grimsby Rural District would have been kept in Lincolnshire.

Lonsdale Sisters

Florence Samuels lived out the rest of her life in the seaside town of Cleethorpes in North East Lincolnshire and never returned to the stage.

North Lindsey Light Railway

The line had its own station in Scunthorpe at Dawes Lane some 1/2 mile from Frodingham on the Great Central Railway's Manchester to Cleethorpes route (now the South TransPennine).

Peaks Parkway

The construction of a new route from the Baxtergate / Victoria Street junction under the Grimsby to Cleethorpes railway ending at Hainton Square became Phase Two and the railway route from the Victoria Street junction to a new roundabout north of New Waltham became Phase Three.

Utterby

This is a common construction also seen in Itterby, one of the parishes which formed Cleethorpes, and also Ytterby in Sweden, which is relatively frequent in Scandinavia and from which derive the names of the Chemical elements Yttrium, Ytterbium, Terbium and Erbium.

West Riding and Grimsby Railway

The WR&G gave the Great Northern Railway a new direct line to Wakefield from Doncaster on its north-south main line, and onwards to the Woollen District towns and the cities of Leeds, Bradford and Halifax over the tracks of the former West Yorkshire Railway, which it acquired in 1865; while the M.S.& L.R. could offer connections to Grimsby, and its docks, and the seaside resort of Cleethorpes.


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