By The future of Grimsby’s Fishing Heritage Centre
As part of the Greater Grimsby Town Deal, a survey has been launched to ask for local views on the future of the Fishing Heritage Centre, with an eye to revitalising, restoring and preserving the towns heritage, and the historic vessels the ‘Ross Tiger’ and ‘Esther’ .
The Greater Grimsby Town Deal, announced in 2018, was the first of its kind in the country and sees Government support to unlock millions of pounds to help regenerate the town.
The survey asks for peoples’ views on the Centre, whether they have visited in the last year and how they think it could be improved.
This forms part of a wider Museum Development Study, which is supported by a Coastal Revival Fund grant and will help to take Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre’s development forward as part of the Greater Grimsby Town Deal.
Councillor Callum Procter, Cabinet member for heritage, said:
“There is a genuine desire to see our town’s proud maritime past celebrated in an improved museum that inspires those who visit. This includes doing all that we can to preserve the vessels. Over the next few years, we have a unique opportunity to do this and we are relying on the public’s support to help with this first step.”
Opened in 1991 at Alexandra Dock, the attraction is an Arts Council England accredited museum.
The site won the Attraction of the Year from the English Tourism Board and the Blue Peter Children’s Museum of the Year award in 1993.
Tours of the 1950s Ross Tiger, moored alongside, give visitors a unique insight into what life was like on board what is believed to be the oldest surviving diesel side-trawler in the UK.
Thought to be the longest serving fishing vessel, operating from 1888 to 1991, the Esther was brought back home to Grimsby by the then borough council in 1992.
She was built at the old Collinson’s boatyard, just a couple of hundred metres away from where she is now.
The survey, which can be found here, is open until the 18th of May.
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