January 2022

20th century Housing History in the Humberside Region 10

I have decided to linger with Grimsby for a while. As previously identified, the Nunsthorpe local authority housing estate was started in the late 1930s. As such it must have been an example of Lindsey County Council’s response to government legislation of the mid-late 1930s prioritising house building in which to rehome families living in […]

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20th century Housing History in the Humberside Region 9.

To complete our time-traveller’s journey back in 1900 (see first five blogs of the section) he/she would travel south-east from Immingham to Grimsby. The photo above shows part of Cleethorpes ‘prom’ and the pier, the mound on the left is/are the ‘regularised sand dunes that were Cleethorpes natural sea defence before commercialization. In fact Cleethorpes

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20th century Housing in the Humberside Region 6.

Both Immingham and Scunthorpe have a varied collection of 20th century housing styles, much of it originally built as local authority housing. Various styles were pioneered in each community, both inter-War and post-War. The above photo. shows one such pioneering post-War style, the ‘Airey house’, so named from the surname of the architect/designer (the photo.

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