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RAF Grimsby
RAF Grimsby in Lincolnshire, England, was a Second World War Royal Air Force bomber aerodrome. It initially opened as a satellite station for the Wellington bombers of RAF Binbrook. By early 1943 the station was equipped with Lancaster bombers of 100 Squadron.
Although the station was officially called RAF Grimsby, servicemen and locals referred to it as Waltham, the name of the nearby village Waltham.
History
Pre-Second World War
Flying began at Waltham in 1933 when a grassed strip operated as Grimsby's municipal airport and a small aero club was formed at the airfield.
Second World War
In June 1938, the airfield's's first military resident's were Bomber Command's 5 Group who set up an RAFVR training outfit (the 25 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School). The Civil Air Guard also operated from the aerodrome.
The airfield was requisitioned by the Air Ministry in May 1940. The aerodrome was then prepared through the summer of 1940 with concrete runways (the first in north Lincolnshire) to accommodate bombers of 1 Group. The aerodrome became operational in the summer of 1941 and was initially a satellite airfield for the nearby RAF Binbrook. The Wellington squadrons based at Binbrook would use Waltham as their own airfield did not have concrete runways.
Grimsby
Coordinates: 53°33′34″N 0°04′05″W / 53.5595°N 0.0680°W
Grimsby (or archaically Great Grimsby) is a large town and seaport situated on the South Bank of the Humber Estuary, in England, close to where it reaches the North Sea. The town was traditionally in Lincolnshire, until it was absorbed into the new county of Humberside in 1974. After the abolition of Humberside in 1996, the town was returned to Lincolnshire, and it now serves as the administrative centre of the North East Lincolnshire unitary authority. Grimsby developed as a major sea port on the east coast of England, hosting the largest fishing fleet in the world by the mid twentieth century. The fishing industry dramatically declined following the Cod Wars of the 1970s, and since then the town has battled with post-industrial decline. Since the 1990s the local council has encouraged food manufacturing, promoting the town as "Europe's food town". As one of the largest centres of population in Lincolnshire the Grimsby-Cleethorpes conurbation acts as the cultural, shopping and industrial centre for a large area of northern and eastern Lincolnshire.
Grimsby railway station
Grimsby station in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada is served by the Maple Leaf train between Toronto and New York City.
The Maple Leaf is a joint Amtrak-Via Rail service: ticketing is shared, and trains consist of Amtrak equipment but are operated on the Toronto-Niagara Falls portion of the route by Via crews. The station was formerly served by additional Via trains operating as part of Corridor services, but these were discontinued in 2012.
The station is an accessible, unstaffed, but heated shelter beside the tracks and replaced a small wooden shed. Parking is free.
History
The original Great Western Railway station, built in 1853, is used by Fork Road Pottery. It had also been used previously as a fruit depot and meat packing depot. The second GWR station burned down in 1900 and was replaced by a third in 1902. That historic railway station building had two towers and was destroyed by an electrical fire in 1994.That building was concurrently in use as a restaurant between 1979 and 1994. The current Via Rail shelter was built in the 1990s.
Grimsby (disambiguation)
Grimsby is a UK seaport on the Humber estuary in North East Lincolnshire.
Grimsby may also refer to:
