Episode 7 | Uncover the Fascinating History of Grimsby's Kasbah

[@barrytaylor760]

I started work as abarrow boy on Grimsby docks and had worked on the docks on and off down there as an electrician many years and never had heard it called the casbah until recently , my sister was engaged to the owners son of abernethie fish merchants in the area known at the moment as the casbah ,and he had never known it as that ,

[@paull3466]

To echo what @barrytaylor760 said, my grandfather, his brothers, and their father worked on Grimsby docks from after the end of the First World War (when my great grandfather settled in Grimsby) to the 1990s (when my grandfather retired) and I've never heard this area referred to as the "Kasbah." I used to go to work with my grandfather on the docks and never heard the word "Kasbah" mentioned. My family on my father's side were also connected to the docks (working on boats and with fish), and as a boy many of my friends parents were either trawlermen or worked on the docks; again, I never heard it referred to as the "Kasbah" by any of them. Speaking to friends and colleagues, many of whom have worked on the docks and have long ties to the area (ie, they're Grimsby/Cleethorpes "natives"), this experience seems to be quite common. There may have been a small number of people that nicknamed that area "The Kasbah" but surprisingly or not, I've never met one. It seems that the label has been pushed by the council to give the area a more "exotic" feel.

[@zhukov43]

Absolutely love the history of Grimsby, Cleethorpes and the surrounding areas.

[@robertbaglin3973]

Worked down dock for over 40 years and never not once heard that part of the fish docks ever called the Casbah.It’s a name dreamt up some deluded arty farty fairy types who think by naming it this will attract interest to the area.Dream on because if ABP get their way it will all be demolished to make way for wind farm offices.

[@bigzach1000]

Thank you for the interesting presentation. Very nicely produced with thoughtful information. Now, maybe some day I can come there and visit.

[@markburch3056]

They should make it like the Black Country museum and bring it back to life and decked out as it was in its great days gone by

[@richardrandomk]

This has made me pretty homesick, I must say

[@neilfoster814]

I've had dealings with Martin Boyers (Fish Market Manager), really nice, helpful guy. I've always known that area as "The Kasbah", I've still got a warehouse there.

[@kennethmaney914]

Try the old pram race around the top town pubs

[@carolineridlington5010]

I worked for Ross foods ...in the '70s ..trained to work on a band saw....happy days...

[@sparkesman1980]

Such a shame.... Grimsby docks is now a Ghost town. Years ago, all these featured buildings and streets where full of working folk, 1000s of kits of fish landed every week, barrow boys everywhere......all gone

[@davidtuck8584]

Give us some written evidence of the term Kasbah it is a made up name to get funding.My uncles worked down dock from the late 1930s and my dad died in 2019 having worked down docks in the same period. He too had never heard the name and felt it was made up by some out of town architect

[@failedrockstar]

It has never been called The Kasbah !

[@kennethmaney914]

Load of rubbish, I was born in Kent Street ,Grimsby and half my family worked down the docks. There was no Kas barr. Danes etc where called.. scrobs and country folk ..josskins. It was Doughty with the money and Yarborough with the land that built the railway. And they made there money moving refugees from Europe to Liverpool and beyond. They had sleeping sheds next to Dock station, and the fish trade came second. One of my danish mates at western schools dad was the Danish consul ,who's office was at Riby Square and Freeman Street corner. Never heard that name Kasbarr down there.alot of the fish merchant drank in the Lincoln pub or the Station and Oberon pubs.

[@Rebok01]

Not Kasbah, its just the Docks. Just like Ross House isn't Youngs House

[@kennethmaney914]

Grimsby never had a kasbah. Lots of people took sailors and fishermen in as lodgers to earn extra money. There where very few black or Arabic sailors in port. Most where from other ports around the country ,and scrobs as we called them from Scandinavia. I went to school with several Danes and Norwegians. One lads father was the Danish Consul. I had uncles from around Britain... Jock , Taffy's, etc. My grandparents took them in as did several neighbours in and around Kent Street. And as to multi cultural. The only black people in town was a man who ran a car parts shop at Riby Square. And the three Campbell brothers on the old Yarborough Estate. Please don't middle class it up. Live it before you talk about it.

[@willmitchell255]

Why do people insist on calling it the Kasbah (or even Casbah) ? It's never been know by that name, certainly not by Grimbarians anyway !

[@andyburton1160]

I've said it before but I'll say it again They should of turned it into a Living Museum As they have done In Birmingham with there Black Country Museum I did even go as far to send some emails out suggesting this idea many years back but ultimately no interest soet it rot and get demolished instead

[@markburch3056]

Totally agree I said the same

[@stephenchappell7512]

Birmingham is not the Black Country which is to its west centered on Dudley

[@christopherjameslee3341]

The Kasbah?!!!

[@simonflinn8789]

no such thing as the Kasbah

[@michaelwashington8947]

No such place

[@garethbeaton8414]

The backrooms

[@paulhogan2930]

Terrible presentation of Grimsby. No life in it whatsoever.

[@paulmichaelweldrick4755]

Board me senseless before it even started, what's with the Joe biden, forever introduction then adds 🤨🤨🤨🤨

[@Chris-mf1rm]

I get that very few, if any, local people (and my family on both sides were Grimsby fishermen and dock workers) call it the Kasbah. But what’s the problem with calling it the Kasbah if it helps attract funding and new business? Christ on a bike, would you rather it continued to go to rack and ruin? The town desperately needs an influx of new money. Having a dog in a manger attitude won’t help anyone.