John Edward Cooper’s Notes
Saturday 17 August 2019
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[2019] Visit to Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre …[We stopped] to look at the Fishermen’s Memorial in St. James Square.  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 12:45:20 Grimsby Fishermen’s Memorial: plaque on the pavement  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 12:46:12 Grimsby Fishermen’s Memorial  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 12:47:12 Grimsby Fishermen’s Memorial …Leaving the Freshney Place shopping centre by its northern exit, we crossed Frederick Ward Way and the footbridge over the Freshney, and went through Haven Mill, thinking that to turn right along Garth Lane would take us to where we were going; but that way was fenced off. So we retraced our steps somewhat, and proceeded eastwards along the south side of the River, crossing by the farther footbridge (where Symwhite Bridge crosses the River Head). There was a swan with eight cygnets swimming in the Freshney, and another swan resting in the vegetation on the north bank. We proceeded northwards to the Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre, paid our £4 each concessionary admission charge, and entered the museum. This involved going up flights of stairs to the top floor, then following footprints on the floor, going downwards in stages through the various exhibits: mostly mock-ups of dwellings, various locations on a trawler, docks, offices, a pub, etc. Our entrance charge also included a conducted tour at 3.30pm of the nearby trawler Ross Tiger.   
Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre and Ross Tiger: leaflet  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:06:00 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:06:14 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:08:32 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre When we got to the upper floor, we first came to a room with exhibits in cases, and a gentleman there pointed out one of them: a copy of a chart of the Humber, from Spurn to the west end of Sunk Island, made by Captain William Bligh in February 1797, from a survey taken when he commanded HMS Director. It included a memorandum signed by Bligh regarding the best method of entering the estuary. The gentleman pointed out a later insertion (1805) on the chart: “Grimsby Wet Dock”. Then we proceeded downwards through the rest of the museum.  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:19:08 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:19:56 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:21:02 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:23:16 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:24:12 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:26:06 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:27:34 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:27:46 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:30:02 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:32:36 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:33:36 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:34:30 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:35:18 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:36:28 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:39:34 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:40:06 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:40:42 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:42:28 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:43:06 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:44:30 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:46:02 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:46:46 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:48:18 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:50:04 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:50:40 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:51:34 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:52:46 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:53:32 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:56:30 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:58:08 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:59:06 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 14:59:38 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:01:20 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:02:06 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:02:20 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:03:18 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:04:22 Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre We went to the Heritage Centre café, where Janet had a Fentiman’s ginger beer and I a dandelion and burdock. Then we went around to Alexandra Dock, as instructed, at 3.25pm, to join the small party waiting for the guided tour of the Ross Tiger. The wooden planks of the deck were rotting, and sheets of steel plate had been laid over it where we would be walking.  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:26:40 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:33:06 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:45:12 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:45:40 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:46:20 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:46:58 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:48:04 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:48:42 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:51:26 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:51:52 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:53:06 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:53:32 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:54:42 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:54:48 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:55:10 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:56:42 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:57:46 Ross Tiger  Saturday 17 August 2019 — 15:58:10 Ross Tiger We finally sat in the skipper’s quarters, where the guide showed us photographs taken when the ship was a working trawler, including one of himself. He’d been “third hand”, next in rank after the skipper and the mate.[i]
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