Rod Collins

There is a popular misconception that the Pilgrim Fathers started their historic journey from Plymouth in England.
Well they didn’t - they set off in search of religious freedom from Lincolnshire !
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Women’s mobiles mean more to them than the man in their lives !
Yes folks, girls are more attached to their cell phones than they are to their partners or boyfriends
Of course women are notoriously fickle but . . .
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Aylesby Mill was once not far from my house and on a spot it turns out I’ve walked past in ignorance many times.
It’s existence only came to my attention the other day after studying some old maps so it seemed only right and proper to try and locate the spot on which it once stood and try to find out something of its history
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Just what do single men do on public holidays ?
Well, I go out looking for birds of course !
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St Andrew’s Church in Immingham.
Little did I expect to find myself here on Christmas day, nor did I expect to be eating my Christmas day lunch in a graveyard !
Give it a read - it was a good trip
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Your host is once again to don the mantle of Tintin Ace Reporter !
This time reporting live outside The Ministry of the Bloody Obvious
Why does the continual streams of research and opinion polls continually make headlines by telling us what in patently obvious in the first place.
Here’s a tip for newspapers - tell us something we don’t know
Here’s some very recent examples
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Merry Christmas from Lincolnshire !
I should like to take this opportunity to wish you Season Greetings and Best Wishes
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Ellyll is believed to be the collective name for three mounds of antiquity in Grimsby.
We’re trying to put together as much information on them as possible - if you can help then . . . Lincolnshire needs you !
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Sand Hill is believed to have been largely used for commercial purposes.
We are trying to put together a comprehensive historic guide to the site
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Cun Hu Hill in Grimsby is very possibly the site of an ancient Royal Seat and a huge man-made structure.
Read on for a guide to the history of this historic Lincolnshire site
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Abbey Hill in Grimsby Lincolnshire was originally a site of pagan worship !
We’re putting together as much information on it as possible - here’s what we’ve got so far
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Holm Hill was so named by the Saxons and was ‘centrically situated between two Havens’
Here’s our attempt to collate as much information on it as possible, what follows is an exploratory article of snippets of historic information and opinions which I hope will evolve into something solid and conclusive
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Spittal Hill is but one of a number of ancient hills in Grimsby Lincolnshire.
This page will attempt to collate as much information about this particular one as possible
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Chapel Hill is part of a group of hills in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, known as Nuns’ Hill - situated at what is now Nun’s Corner.
This article will explore as much of the history as possible and attempt to provide an exact location
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Mill Hill is one of a group of three mounds which once made up Nun’s Hills in Grimsby.
They were of great historic importance to the town so are more than worthy of investigation and an accumulation of as much information as possible
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Clayton Hall is something that cropped up in our look at St Mary’s Church in Grimsby and Neville Sisson has kindly sent in an old drawing of the building so here is our initial research in Clayton Hall in Grimsby Lincolnshire
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