Topic: Urbanisation; Grimsby, (1888-2020).


View down Maude Street, with The Ship Hotel on the left and Flottergate Methodist Chapel on the right, early 1970s.

This shot was taken in the 1970s before 'slum clearance'. It illustrates the high density development associated with Victorian urbanisation; properties, large and small , were planned to utilise all the building space up to the pavement,



Flottergate and Maude Street; Ordnance Survey 1888-1913 

Maude Street was part of a Victorian housing development in the early 1800s, which changed Grimsby from a small market town into a sprawling international fishing community.   The development was situated at the northern edge of the old produce and livestock markets, the Corn Exchange (C) and Bull Ring.  This had been the commercial hub of the medieval town centered on St James parish church, bounded by Dean's Gate to the West and Flottergate to the North.

The Ship Hotel was the social intertface between town and county until the Yarborough Hotel (Y) was built by the railway station in 1851.


Somersby Street, 2020

Somersby Street, to the north of Maude Street was laid out in the early 1900s in a new affluent style of terraces with a front gardens, bay windows and an ornamental recessed front door.  Somersby St was part of the Grimsby Tennyson Estate.  The present day variety of bays is down to their replacement over the years because of rain penetration through the flat roofs.

 


Flottergate 2020

Maude Street and the Southern part of Flottergate were demolished as part of the 1970s River Head 'shopping precinct' development.

 







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