Rod Collins

As many regular visitors will be aware the site has, unfortunately, been down for 24 hours or so.
I should like to apologise to everybody and thank them for their emails of concern and for your patience.
The problem was a critical failure of the site server which is based in the USA and completely beyond my control.
It is VERY disappointing in how long the site was down for - more so as I do pay a lot of money to host this site - far more than any other of my sites.
The money goes into making the site as fast and visitor friendly as possible so when the experience is bad it is doubly disappointing for me personally.
Interesting new post which I shall put up in the morning and my apologies once again also my thanks for your forbearance

Back on Linely Yours
Rod

Pewet Hall later to become Pewet Farm was on the outskirts of Aylesby just outside Grimsby in Lincolnshire.
This article seeks to find out as much as possible about the old hall, those who lived there and their lives.
Do you know of anything that may help ?
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Cuxwold is a small but beautiful village set in a slight hollow in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
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Who is Related to Somebody Famous, Notorious or Interesting ?
Inspired by a comment left by our very own History Hunter I thought I would follow his excellent suggestion and see if there is anybody out there who has relatives, however long ago that are famous for something, just plain interesting or infamous
Do you have any famous relations ?
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Will the summer of 2010 be a hot one here in the UK or will it be the usual English washout - again ?
All this and more in the winners and losers round up - back by popular demand !
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The church at Marshchapel is dedicated to St Mary and is renowned for it’s grotesques, gargoyles and extensive carvings with the present building dating to 1420
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The Corn Exchange in Grimsby was built in 1850s and is, sadly, no longer with us.
The infinite wisdom of town planners mean Grimsby’s heritage is now something primarily to be seen in old images and detailed research needs to be done simply to find the simplest of things.
So, let’s try and accumulate as much information about the Corn Exchange as possible
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Welcome style and couture freaks - I’m sure when you awoke this morning you thought to yourself
“Who Are the Worst Dressed in the World”
Well, there are plenty of contenders for that crown but I can tell you who the worst dressed men and women in Europe are
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What is a Red Letter Day ?
Well, we’ll get onto that but whatever a red letter day is - I’ve just had one.
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Off we go again with some of the things that get my vote and get my goat this week.
From DHL to Council Tax - from cheap Ugg boots to exorcists - it’s time for the winners and losers
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Foreign Call Centres are inferior to those based in the UK !
Is this me ranting about a bad experience, no - it seems a multi-national company that uses call centres abroad to serve their British customers agree . . .
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The priory at North Ormsby, also known as Nun Ormsby, date back to the mid 1100s. Sadly nothing but the site and its history remain but what a site !
It’s hardly surprising they wanted to be there . . .
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When did the railway first come to Grimsby ?
I had no idea personally, but now I do after a little research into the history.
It arrived in 1848 and here’s a great engraving to illustrate it
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Hitler, the Nazis and the Lincolnshire Boy Scouts
It sounds like an unlikely combination . . . that is until you read released MI5 top secret documents which tell of how Adolf Hitler tried to infiltrate the Lincolnshire Boy Scouts !
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The Archbishop of Canterbury came to Grimsby
No, it’s not the start of a joke or vulgar limerick, he actually did visit the town last week.
‘It’s the first time any Archbishop of Canterbury has ever visited Grimsby’ is what I was told
Hmmmm I thought . . . let’s look into that . . . so we shall and it’s pretty interesting
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Big Cat Sightings in Lincolnshire
It’s a topic once touched on before but one I find particularly interesting so I think it’s worth covering properly.
Are there Panthers, lynx, leopards, pumas and the like here in Lincolnshire ?
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