3 weeks in the UK, chillin and visiting family

This is a whirlwind view of the area we used to live in.

Immingham- Pop12,200 at last census is where we used to live and is where our family live still.

Grimsby (pop. 87,574) is the nearest town to where our family live, and this is where the big shops are. this site has more pictures and funnily enough also has a few of my mums home town Louth, which is probably the only town around now that still has a town shopping district, not a Mall.

A street of terraced houses which used to be houses but most have been converted into flats now.

A aptly named street & a view of the old buildings still left in Victoria Street, we wern't used to the traffic !

This is the Victoria Mill, its been converted into appartments now after been derelict for many years, I took the picture as we were going over the bridge over the Victoria docks

Habrough , the nearest small village to Immingham, and the nearest train station.

The village Pub, and shop (which used to belong to Rachel)

Dot buying some dog food...

look at the price Rachel.... (Dot must have had special gram rates when it was Rachels shop!)

The next village is actually the Lord Yarborough's Brockelsby Estate which is the home of the Brockelsby Hunt and was the Hunt that I used to belong to, and since the Stupid Government banned fox hunting the hunt have promoted the hounds as much as posible so that the hounds do not disappear, as it is one of the oldest in Britain and there are descendants of the hounds living in New Zealand today
the estate is also the home to the Pony club both myself and Rachel were members. The village is for the workers of the estate, and because of this there its still as it was when it was first built.

these are the gates into the village, there is a set on the other side too.

view of the traffic - a quiet day really
oh and funny how you never take notice of what is growing at the side of the road - but now after 2 yrs in New Zealand, I noticed Gorse growing everywhere!
if your interested in the history of the migrants from this area in the 1800's read this article on line it is a very interesting read.

http://www.visitlincolnshire.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire

Another village the other side of Immingham is East Halton, we used to live there, and


Views of East Halton Skitter - the sea wall which stops the Humber river from flooding, we went for a walk there since we once live in East Halton for 7 years.






when we were not travelling about we chilled out at mam's and sunbathed - yes it was sunny for most of the time we were over - for a change LOL, I had a few comments on how healthy I looked when I got back to work, so I must have got a tan while reading near the water feature.