This league also contained the reserve sides of Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley, Nottingham Forest, Grimsby Town and Hull City.

There was also a short-lived hovercraft service ; Minerva and Mercury linked Hull Pier and Grimsby Docks from February to October 1969, but suffered frequent mechanical failures.

Also in the 1846 session, powers were granted to various allied companies to make lines from Boston to Grimsby and Stamford to Spalding-which was never built-and also the Hitchin to Royston section only of a proposed Oxford and Cambridge Railway.

She appeared on Question Time in Grimsby where she was heckled for calling this claim " an error " and also for her refusal to repay £ 72, 000 of her controversial second home allowance.

The village is also served by the National Express route between Grimsby and London and Grimsby and Westward Ho!

For many years, Grimsby also had a successful fishing industry which lasted until the 1960s.

Grimsby is also the birthplace of a now forgotten Hollywood director, Del Lord.

The centre was also covered in a glass roof and ( where the new extension was built ) two multi-storey car parks were constructed at each end of the centre, effectively privatising, roofing and enclosing the old Top Town area of Grimsby.

Grimsby also has rail links via Grimsby Town railway station and Grimsby Docks railway station.

The area also boasts an amateur rugby union side, the Grimsby RUFC, and an amateur cricket side, the Grimsby Town Cricket Club, both of which attract reasonable levels of support.

The Cistercian nuns of Nuncotham also had a holding, as did Thornton Abbey and Saint Leonard ’ s Priory ( Grimsby ) by the time of the Reformation.

Rookery Farm ’ s water was pumped by a windmill which also seems to have served a pump on Grimsby Road.

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.

The M180 motorway is a short but major () motorway in England from junction 5 on the M18 motorway in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster to a point close to Humberside Airport some from the ports of Immingham and Grimsby and the east coast and provides access for major routes to Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Hull ( via the Humber Bridge ), Immingham, Lincoln, Scunthorpe and also provides major access for Humberside Airport and the Killingholme Oil Refineries.

The A46 has also been extended from Laceby to Grimsby and Cleethorpes-the road between Laceby and Grimsby was originally part of the A18.

The Grimsby Telegraph covered the response in which it stood by the MP but also reported that a number of readers had called for his resignation.

1987 – 88 saw Grimsby suffer a second consecutive relegation, placing them in the Fourth Division. The club's financial situation was also dismal, and as the 1988 – 89 season began, the task at Grimsby was to avoid relegation to the Football Conference, avoid expulsion from the F. A.

Later as a manager, after a spell with non-league Kettering Town, he guided Grimsby Town to promotion from the Fourth Division in 1990 and they reached the Second Division a year later-where they spent all but one of the next 12 seasons.

The stadium's record attendance was registered on 25 March 1939, when an FA Cup semi-final between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Grimsby Town drew 76, 962 spectators.

On 25 March 1939, Wolverhampton Wanderers played Grimsby, in a FA Cup semi-final at Old Trafford.

The stadium's record attendance was recorded in 1939, when 76, 962 spectators watched the FA Cup semi-final between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Grimsby Town.

Instead, on 25 March 1939, 76, 962 people watched an FA Cup semi-final between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Grimsby Town.

The highest attendance recorded at Old Trafford was 76, 962 for an FA Cup semi-final between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Grimsby Town on 25 March 1939.

Grimsby started the season poorly – they were near the bottom of the division by Christmas and were beaten 7 – 0 by Preston North End in the FA Cup, but rallied to finish tenth at the end of 1898 – 99.

The same year, the club were performing respectably in the FA Cup, reaching the Third Round before going out 2 – 1 to Grimsby Town who were in the nation's top league at the time.

He left the club for Grimsby Town in 1957, before moving to Nottingham Forest a year later, with whom he won the FA Cup in 1959.

He made his Grimsby debut against Torquay United in September 1988, and went on to score 14 league goals in 44 games during the club's 1988 – 89 campaign ; including a goal against FA Cup holders Wimbledon at Plough Lane.

* Record cup attendance: vs Grimsby Town, FA Cup 1st round, 1976 – variously given as 4, 250, 4, 500 and 5, 018 ( the latter figure being unofficial – source Droylsden Reporter )

His first goal for the club came against Grimsby in the League Cup on 27 November 2001.

His first-team Arsenal debut came in a League Cup fourth round match on November 27, 2001, as a substitute in a 2 – 0 win over Grimsby Town.

At Liverpool he was restricted to just two substitute appearances in the League Cup against Hull City and Grimsby Town.

He was part of the Grimsby team that defeated Liverpool in the League Cup in 2001 – 02.

There has been an ice hockey club based in Grimsby since 1936.

*, a Grimsby class sloop launched in 1936, decommissioned in 1962, and broken up for scrap

*, a Grimsby class sloop commissioned in 1936 and was lost on 4 March 1942 while defending a convoy from five Japanese warships

* was a Grimsby class sloop launched in 1936 and broken up after 1959.

The first game of inline sledge hockey was played at Bisley, England, on the 19th of December 2009 between the Hull Stingrays and the Grimsby Redwings.

City's first game was a 2 – 0 defeat at Grimsby Town on 1 September 1903, six days before their first home game attracted 11, 000 fans.

In the final home game of the 2009 season the Cherries guaranteed their Football League status by beating Grimsby Town.

Grimsby finished 17th and were in the battle to avoid relegation right up to the penultimate game of the season.

The club were drawn against Southern section champions AFC Bournemouth and in a tight game, an equaliser from substitute Kingsley Black took the game into extra time, and in the 112th minute Grimsby secured the game courtesy of a golden goal from Wayne Burnett.

In one of the club most famous victories, Grimsby held the Premier League team to a 0 – 0 draw after 90 minutes taking the game into extra time.

Fortunately Chester City could only manage a 2 – 2 draw with Aldershot Town which left City 3 points behind Grimsby with one game remaining, but with a vastly inferior goal difference.

Chester lost their final game anyway, meaning that Grimsby were safe ; however, they would have been relegated if Newell's previous club, Luton Town, hadn't received a massive 30 point deduction.

On 6 March 2010 Grimsby ended a club record 25 game winless streak by beating promotion chasing Shrewsbury Town at Blundell Park, 3 – 0.

The 25 game streak had last seen Grimsby win in the league with a 2 – 0 away victory at Torquay United on 19 September 2009.

Their first game was a 3 – 1 defeat at home to Grimsby Reserves on 26 August 1933, when a crowd of 1, 544 watched Boston's no. 7, Blessed, score United's first ever goal.

Promotion was only secured in the final minutes of the final game of the season, away at Oxford United ; with the score tied at 2 – 2 and Orient seemingly destined to miss out yet again on promotion, news came through of a late goal scored against promotion rivals Grimsby Town F. C.

He joined Grimsby Town, and played his first competitive game for them in September 1963 against Newcastle United when they won 2 – 1.

At the bottom Rushden & Diamonds were relegated back down to Division Three along with Grimsby Town who suffered a second straight relegation after losing the last game of the season.

In the summer of 2012, a year after retiring from the game, Hughes was convinced to come out of retirement by Paul Groves, who managed him at Grimsby and was assistant manager while Hughes was at Portsmouth.

After making his debut against Stockport County he scored twice in his next game, against Grimsby Town.

The first game of Inline Sledge Hockey was played at Bisley, England on the 19th December 2009 between the Hull Stingrays and the Grimsby Redwings.

The final League game to be played at Gay Meadow was against Grimsby Town on 5 May 2007.

Jewell had a brief loan spell at Grimsby Town, before returning to Bradford eventually retiring as a player in 1997 – 98 — although his last game came in the promotion-winning season from Division Two in 1995 – 96 under manager Chris Kamara.

His final game for Grimsby came on 24 February 2004 in a 3-2 win over Luton Town.

Darlington made a poor start to the 2009 – 10 season, and having picked up just one point from eight league games, Todd agreed with chairman Raj Singh that he would leave the club if they failed to win their ninth game against Grimsby Town.