Cod Almighty | Postbag

Postbag: over the hills and far away

17 November 2010

Grimsby, in all its infinite variety, in microcosm, here, below. Just for you. Return the favour. Write.

Not just Great

Apparently Grimsby isn't Great any more, it's Greater.

from The Oracle

Grimsby in literature

I was interested in the letter by Joel Wheatley in the last postbag. While you directed him towards media references, I fancy it was the broader cultural references that intrigued him.

It so happened that I was recently reading an obscure novel, Faraway by JB Priestley. The novel, a study in illusion, features a man, long stranded in the South Pacific whose regular refrain "I was a Grimsby man" frames his insistence that the entire East coast of England has been destroyed in a pan-European war.

Better than thinking of the Mariners playing non-League football, I suppose.

from Bill Partridge

Letters Ed responds: Thanks Bill. If you, or anyone, has any other literary references to Grimsby or Cleethorpes, share them.