FLIXBOROUGH: North Lincolnshire Parish #44 of 56

NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE PARISH #44: FLIXBOROUGH
Flixborough is a small pleasant village approximately 3 miles from Scunthorpe. The village may be tiny, but it commands a large civil parish located on the Eastern bank of the River Trent.
Flixborough has had many different spellings through the centuries, ranging from "Flichesburg" in the Domesday Book to ”Flikesburg”, “Flyxburgh” and “Flixburrow”
Its believed the first part of the name is an early form of the word “cliff”, as the original settlement stood on a sloping cliff overlooking the River Trent
As such the village's name can be translated as "fortified dwelling on the cliff slope". Excavations by the Humberside Archaeology Unit took place here between 1989 and 1991 which revealed a Middle to Late Saxon settlement and nunnery, dating from the 7th to the 11th centuries
It’s noted for a few things, including the UK’s worst industrial disaster. We’ll be covering that in this episode. A notable son of Flixborough is Sir Edmund Anderson, who, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, tried Mary, Queen of Scots.
The modern settlement is little more than one road running from East to West, with a few side streets, but Flixborough’s population is quite large - and there’s a very good reason why.
Come with me to find out what this one has hidden away!
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Mineral Railway (Chris):
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www.geograph.org.uk/photo/402...
Flixborough Wharf:
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Flixborough Disaster:
www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/ne...
www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...
Saxon Nunnery:
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historicengland.org.uk/listin...
GENUKI:
www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN...
Flixborough Inn:
www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/ne...
All Saints:
media.acny.uk/media/venues/pa...
www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/TV/fl...
Charnwood Park:
www.charnwoodparkhomes.com/
Care Home:
www.carehome.co.uk/carehome.c...
Skippingdale Retail Park:
www.realla.co.uk/details/2498...
scunnyhistory.wordpress.com/2...
Demographics:
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Zoopla:
www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices...
Jaime’s Fitness Studio:
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Pastdays:
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Brendan Perkins - “Foxsnow” (B. Perkins)
• Foxsnow
Brendan Perkins - “Mickey's House” (B. Perkins)
• Mickey's House
The Keyhouse - "Voices" (H. Flunder)
• Voices
The Keyhouse - "Circles" (H. Flunder)
• The Keyhouse - Circles...
Helen Flunder - "Sun" (H. Flunder)
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Helen Flunder - “Angels” (H. Flunder)
• Helen Flunder - Angels...
Helen Flunder - “C Song” (H. Flunder)
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[@emilduncanbrown8571]

That was a very informative and sensitive video to watch. Those of us who were alive at the time can never forget that day in 1974. We lived in West Yorkshire and heard the bang as a tremor in the ground. I thought it was a bomb dad thought it was a colliery explosion then the phone rang about an hour or so later it was family in Burton upon Stather to tell us there upstairs bedroom windows had been broken and it was something to the south of them but at that point in time they didn't know what.

[@juneterrington1267]

Thanks Andy great video, cant believe i was just 10 when nypro went up swe were at the gala but heard it over in lindsey street

[@TheVillageIdiot]

I imagine it went with a blummin loud crack. Obviously before my time, but I can only imagine how bad it was for local folks

[@richardgrimbleby7853]

There used to be a monument of some flying doves in the chuch yard to commemorate the disaster but it was stolen

[@jonathanj.7344]

I remember the Flixborough Disaster being national headlines when I was a teenager in 1974 and it shook the country. It was referred to in the media as the Flixborough Disaster and mentioned the "Nypro Plant" also. For some reason I thought it had a connection with Fisons, the fertiliser company? Anyway, thanks for the video, I enjoyed it.

[@TheVillageIdiot]

No link to Fisons as far as I'm aware. The plant made caprolactam for nylon products, unless they had byproducts which were used in fertiliser

[@alisonwhite1020]

Well fertiliser is a main ingredient, for a big explosions,