IMMINGHAM

'Immingham' (colloqually referred to as 'Ming' or 'Ming Ming') is a town in North East Lincolnshire, located on south bank of the Humber Estuary. It is six miles from the larger town of Grimsby.
The town contains a memorial marking the site of the 1608 departure of the Pilgrim Fathers to flee to Holland. The vessels sailed to Boston (Lincolnshire) and on to Holland then to Southampton and finally Plymouth from where history records the sailings of the Mayflower.
During the Second World War, became the shore base (for a time) of Lord Mountbatten and the docks hosted his famous vessel, HMS Kelly. He roomed at the County Hotel.
The nearest train station is at Habrough on the Cleethorpes to Manchester line. There is a golf club. The local church is St Andrew. There is a sports centre and a swimming pool.
Public houses include the County Hotel and the De Kyme Hotel (both the town's largest), as well as smaller establishments such as the Mayflower and the recently-refurbished Bluestone.

Contents

Etymology

History

Education

Local industry

Docks

References

External links

Etymology

Although the origin of the name of the town is uncertain it is believed to derive from the ''Immingas'', a tribe who followed an Anglo-Saxon leader by the name of ''Imminga''.
The suffix ''-ham'' is Anglo-Saxon for hamlet or town.

History

Up until the turn of the 20th Century Immingham was a rural village, dependent on agriculture. The advent of the railways encouraged speculators to utilise its' location on the coast to build a deep-sea dock to rival that in nearby Kingston upon Hull.
This caused the area to grow as workers moved in; much of the growth in living accomdation was centered around in a narrow strip (now known as Pelham Road) between two public houses at opposite ends of the town, the ''Bluestone'' and the ''County Hotel''. The advent of the First World War caused the area to suffer some decline: This was not reversed until the 1950's.
In that decade the docks began to grow as the country recovered from the Second World War. The expansion of chemical and petroleum industries along the Humber Bank over the next twenty years also fuelled the economic growth and level of population of the town, evident in the architectural style of many houses. This new residential growth expanded on both sides of Pelham Road and in the 1960's a comprehensive school and shopping centre/office complex (Kennedy Way) were opened to facilitate this increase.
To begin with the Kennedy Way centre was host to a supermarket, many independent traders and several banks; In 1979 it was extended to house a further supermarket and other shop units. However in recent years the centre has been in decline with several outlets remaining empty for many years. Both supermarkets have moved out along with some banks, although a further supermarket development (Somerfield) on Washdyke Lane is still operational.

Education

Allerton Primary School is a non-selective state community school for girls and boys aged from 3-11 years of age.
Coomb Briggs

Local industry

Close to Immingham, oil is refined at the Lindsey (at North Killingholme) Oil Refinery by TOTAL and at the Humber Refinery (at South Killingholme) by ConocoPhillips. They both own the Associated Petroleum Terminals. Oil began to be imported in 1970. The Killingholme Refineries opened in 1969, owned by Total and PetroFina. The refined fuel was transported to the rest of the UK by train. 70% of the refined oil from the Humber Refinery goes to the UK, the rest is for Europe. It is the only coking refinery in Britain, produced by catalytic cracking.
In the second half of 2007, an £80m bioethanol fuel plant will be constructed close to the town. The plant will use locally-grown wheat from which to synthesise fuel.^[1]

Docks

The first sod of Immingham Dock was cut in 1906, and was opened by King George V on 22 July, 1913. In part funded by the Great Central Railway, the dock property was 2.5miles in length, 1mile in bredth; covering 1,000acres, with 45acres of water.^[2]
The docks were connected to the town and mainline by the Grimsby & Immingham Electric Railway, with locomotive servcing at Immingham TMD.
Now owned by Associated British Ports, Immingham is home to the largest deep-sea docks in the country. A large port and industrial complex, coal is imported through the port by SSM Coal Ltd. The port partnership of Grimsby & Immingham is the largest port in the UK in terms of tonnage, with a total traffic of 57 million tonnes, 10% of the total, in 2006.
The large Immingham Railfreight Terminal to service the docks, also acts as a storage point for excess locomotives and wagons, as well as a scrapping location.

References

1. Farming UK -
Centaur welcomes £80m biofuels boost for local farmers
2. http://www.leytransport.i12.com/immingha.htm

External links

★ Port of Immingham

★ Immingham.org.uk

★ The church

★ Allerton Primary School

★ Coomb Briggs