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'Nunsthorpe' is a suburb and housing estate in the western part of Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. It is situated between Laceby Road (A46) and Scartho Road (A1243), which respectively form its northern and eastern boundaries.
There are over 2,400 homes on the estate, mostly former council properties now
owned by the Shoreline Housing Partnership. There is a small area belonging to the Havelok/Northern Counties housing associations and a small area of private sector housing. There are a number of privately owned former council houses purchased under the Right to Buy scheme.
The pre-World War Two development in the eastern part of the estate is known as Old Nunsthorpe while the post-war development is called New Nunsthorpe.
To the west lies the 'Bradley Park Estate' which contains around 430 dwellings, also mostly Shoreline properties. The combined population of Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park is approximately 8,000.
To the north, on the other side of Laceby Road, is the Grange Estate and on the eastern boundary, in Scartho Road, is Grimsby Swimming Pool. The Scartho Top private housing estate lies to the south.
Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park are part of the Grimsby South ward[1] of North East Lincolnshire unitary authority. The two estates are also within the area served by the Grimsby South Local Team [2] of Humberside Police.
Although built in the 20th century, Nunsthorpe takes its name from the nuns who once inhabited the priory of Saint Leonard [3]. This stood at modern day Nuns Corner, where Scartho Road joins Laceby Road. "Thorpe" was an old word for village.
The priory was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. In later years the land was occupied by Nuns Farm and in 1954 Grimsby College, now called The Grimsby Institute of Higher and Further Education, acquired the site.
Situated at the southern edge of Grimsby (before the boundary extensions), for centuries the land where Nunsthorpe now stands was comprised of open fields. Lying mainly within the town of Grimsby it stretched westward from the priory, as far as the boundary with Bradley parish and southward, beyond the boundary with the parish of Scartho. Under enclosure awards of 1798 (in Scartho) and 1840 (in Grimsby) [4] this land was acquired by Lord Yarborough
Following the end of World War One decent homes were needed for the returning servicemen. House building was started by Grimsby County Borough Council in 1920, on land bought from Lord Yarborough.
Originally called the Laceby Road Site until 1923 the new Nunsthorpe housing estate, with its modern conveniences and large gardens, was also known as Garden City.
Most of the streets in this early development, built during the 1920s and 1930s, were named after famous people - Burns, Byron, Kingsley, Leighton, Newton, Walton groves; Milton Road and Shelley Avenue. Dame Kendal Grove was named after a Grimsby-born actress while Sutcliffe Avenue was named after Jack Sutcliffe, a previous mayor of Grimsby.
Saint Martin's Mission Church, a wooden building, was built during 1922 in Sutcliffe Avenue; this was replaced by a new church in 1937. The first shops, including a post office, were built in Second Avenue during 1927/28 and a bus service (route 3) was introduced from Grimsby town centre to Nunsthorpe in 1928. In later years this service was extended to Cleethorpes.
Also in 1928 the greater part of Scartho was absorbed, which brought the whole of the present Nunsthorpe area under the control of Grimsby council [5]. At the same time part of Bradley parish was acquired on which the Bradley Park Estate would eventually be built [6].
Nunsthorpe School was opened on Sutcliffe Avenue in 1931; previously children from the estate had been bussed to a school in another part of the town. During the late 1920s a maternity hospital was established in Second Avenue using converted council houses. This was incorporated into a new building which opened in 1933. In 1943 a number of people were killed and houses were damaged when butterfly bombs were dropped on the estate during a German air raid on Grimsby [7].
In the larger post World War Two development the streets were mostly named after Lincolnshire villages, with the exception of Winchester Avenue and a few streets in the area of private housing, which were named after historic English towns. This council house development included the single storey prefabs. Built in 1946 to help alleviate the housing shortage, they were meant to last for only ten years but endured for a much longer period.
In 1947 a large wooden hut was purchased and erected in Burwell Drive. This became the estate's earliest community centre, opened in 1949, at the same time as the formation of Nunsthorpe's first community association.
1952 saw the opening of the branch library in Wootton Road.
During the late 1970s the Bradley Park Estate estate was built on land between Nunsthorpe and the Bradley Recreation Ground.
Some place names in Bradley Park, such as Bremerhaven Way, reflect Grimsby's links with its twin town, although Wymark View was named after the actor who was born in nearby Cleethorpes. Dolby Vale took its name from Sidney Vere Dolby, a long-serving radiologist at Grimsby General Hospital.
The development also included Crosby School (now called Woodlands) which probably took its name from Crosby Road, situated at the rear of the school. Crosby Road itself was named after Crosby village, which is now part of Scunthorpe.
In 1992, for purposes of resident consultation, Grimsby council divided the area into four neighbourhoods. Because of its size New Nunsthorpe was split into two neighbourhoods - Nunsthorpe Central and Nunsthorpe West, while Old Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park formed the remaining two. Each area had a steering committee.
At that time discussions were taking place on the possibility of setting up a tenant management organisation in each neighbourhood. Independent consultants were brought in to canvass the views of residents but nothing developed from this idea.
In 1994 the Department for the Environment approved multi-million pound funding for Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park. This Estate Action scheme allowed for internal improvements to council houses and general improvements, such as better street lighting, the provision of off-road parking facilities and dropped kerbs for the convenience of wheelchair users. It also included the installation of traffic calming measures.
All the prefabs of aluminium construction were renovated and are still in use. However, most of the prefabs containing asbestos were demolished between 1994 and 1997, in spite of a campaign to retain them in a renovated capacity. Of the original 181 such prefabs only three owner-occupied ones now remain.
Local housing association, Havelok, and the Northern Counties housing association, were allocated part of the vacant prefab land for the construction of properties. Some of the land remained empty, part of it forming the open grassed area situated between Burwell Drive and Winchester Avenue. There have been suggestions that this land be used as a recreation park but so far nothing has been decided.
The Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Consultative Forum, established in 1992 to co-ordinate the neighbourhood steering groups, was reorganised and became directly elected by a postal ballot of residents at two yearly periods.
The reconstituted forum held its inaugural meeting in 1995, with annual general meetings being held thereafter. In addition to the delegates elected from 13 areas (later reduced to six), ward councillors and council officers also attended meetings of the main committee and sub-committees.
The forum had three sub-committees, one being the Economic, Social and Cultural Development sub-committee (ESCD). Another sub-committee dealt with council tenant issues only, while the third concerned itself with wider estate action improvements, which effected tenants and homeowners. As circumstances changed these sub-committees were gradually merged with the main committee.
The ESCD had delegates on the project team charged with establishing a resource centre on the estate. When the Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Resource Centre opened in 1995 its manager attended ESCD meetings. Representatives from local churches, schools, the police and other agencies were also invited to attend this sub-committee's meetings. The forum was dissolved in 2004.
Two residents associations, Bradley Park and Nunsthorpe Central, which existed between 1993 and 1999, also sent delegates to the forum. These associations had replaced the steering committees for their respective neighbourhoods. From 1995 they were based at the resource centre.
Attempts to set up resident associations in Old Nunsthorpe and Nunsthorpe West were unsuccessful, however from 1996 Old Nunsthorpe and Nunsthorpe Central residents began holding joint meetings. During 1997 a second residents association was briefly formed on Bradley Park in opposition to the existing group. Also in that year a short-lived Nunsthorpe South association was formed.
A Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Youth Association (now defunct) was established in 1996, supervised by the two adult associations. National Lottery funding enabled this organisation to employ a full-time youth worker based at the resource centre.
In 2004 tenants in North East Lincolnshire were balloted on whether the council housing stock should be transferred to a housing association. Transfer would release money that was unavailable to the council for improvements to properties.
After a "yes" vote the remaining council houses on the two estates (around 1,600), together with the rest of the authority's housing stock, were transferred to the new locally-based Shoreline Housing Partnership [8] in March 2005.
Shoreline tenants on the estates send two delegates to the Boroughwide Tenant Assembly [9]. One delegate represents Nunsthorpe East and Nunsthorpe Central while the other represents Nunsthorpe West and Bradley Park.
Shoreline undertook a programme of investment in the transferred properties over a period of ten years. Planned home improvements include, where necessary, modern kitchens, bathrooms, central heating, decent roofs, security doors and windows, as well as smoke alarms. However there are still parts of Nunsthorpe where it is difficult to attract tenants and houses remain boarded up.
A number of organisations currently work in Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park, supporting residents and helping to overcome anti-social behaviour by the small minority. One of these is the Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Community Association which is based at the purpose-built community centre in Wootton Road.
The centre was opened in 1985 by local snooker celebrity Ray Edmonds. The association existed from 1985 to 1994 and was re-established in 2004.
In 2007 the association received £14,320 from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and Millenium Inorganic Chemicals. The money paid for alterations to the building's ceiling, repairs to the heating system and the installation of safety glass in the doors and windows.
Other organisations include:
★ Saint Martin's Community Action Group, formed in 2004
★ Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Residents and Tenants Association (2005)
★ Nunsthorpe Tenants and Residents Association (2006)
★ Nunsthorpe Young Peoples Service, based in Wootton Road and run by North East Lincolnshire Council.
South Ward Action Group was formed in 2002 and dissolved in 2006. The Second Avenue Resource Centre (formerly the Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Resource Centre) was opened in 1995 on the former Sutcliffe Special School site.
In 2003 a quarterly magazine called Livewire was introduced. Livewire gives news and views from around Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park. It incorporated the resource centre newsletter, Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Matters, which had regularly been distributed to houses in the area since 1995.
In 2006 the Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park United Football Club, comprising of young people led by Manager Chris Humphries, was formed with the support of Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Residents and Tenants Association (2005).
The Neighbourhood Safety Scheme [10], based at the Shoreline premises in Second Avenue, is a multi-agency organisation working to reduce crime on the estates. Nunsthorpe Forward is another multi-agency group. Safer Communities (North East Lincolnshire) [11] has an office in Burwell Drive.
'Saint Martins Action Group'
In 2007 a group of Nunsthorpe residents led by activist Steve Hill, supported by the local policing team inspector and the Rector of Grimsby, appeared on the TV programme, Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway. They were seeking funds
to turn part of Saint Martin's church hall into a children's activity centre.
The panel awarded them £45,000 [12]. A further £300,000 came from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, thus enabling building work to begin. When completed the facility will have a maze of play areas - tunnels, slides, ball pools and climbing areas - also music rooms and quiet rooms where teenagers and children can do their homework.
'Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Residents and Tenants Association'
Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Residents and Tenants Association (2005) Limited is a social enterprise. In 2007 it opened a thrift shop, information and advice centre next to the post office at
57 Second Avenue.
A meeting centre will shortly be opening situated above the shop. This facility will be for the whole of North East Lincolnshire, but mainly
will be provided for Nunsthorpe & Bradley Park's recognised community groups to use.
The association is trying to persuade North East Lincolnshire Council to re-open its premises at 19 Wooton Road as an office complex, cafe and
committee room. They are also negotiating to re-open the old branch library for use as an older teenage club and boxing club/games room.
They have joined forces with the Young Peoples Service to provide a full time youth centre with a football club, music/dance club and drama club. Fishing is based at Bradley Ponds in joint operation with Waltham Fisheries and football is organised with Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park United.
Camping holidays for the youth of the area are planned.
The Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Children's Centre in Sutcliffe Avenue (formed in 2004 by the combination of the Sure Start Centre and Nunsthorpe Nursery School), Woodlands Acorns Daycare Centre on Bradley Park and Butterflies Day Nursery based at the resource centre, provide support for the estates' children.
Primary education is provided by the Nunsthorpe Community School (situated next to the Children's Centre) and Woodlands Primary School in Pinewood Crescent, Bradley Park. Both schools became the first primary schools in Britain to achieve Centre of Excellence status for their use of interactive whiteboards [13]. Nunsthorpe Community School was created in 2001 by the merger of the Nunsthorpe infants and junior schools.
In 1990 the Crosby first and middle schools changed their name to Bradley Park first and middle. In 1999 the two schools amalgamated, undergoing another change of name to Woodlands Primary School. It was the first school in the country to introduce the five-term year [14].
The Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Full Service Extended Schools organisation provides activities, often outside school hours, for children, parents and the wider community.
Saint Mary's Roman Catholic School, a specialist languages and humanities college, is located in Wootton Road. In 2006, as part of a policy to reduce surplus school places, North East Lincolnshire Council proposed the closure of the Saint Mary's site and its merger with Matthew Humberstone Church of England School, Cleethorpes [15].
In 2004 The Grimsby Institute bought and renovated a disused part of the Nunsthorpe school complex in Sutcliffe Avenue. In 2006 this opened as the Institute's Nunsthorpe Community Campus which houses animal care, building construction and horticulture courses. Its leisure facilities are available for public use [16].
The Nunsthorpe branch library was relocated and its facilities are now based at the Sutcliffe Avenue college site, under a partnership arrangement between the Institute and North East Lincolnshire Council. As well as holding academic stock for students, there is a great selection of novels, non fiction and talking books available for all ages.
The library also has an internet cafe for public use, hosts a number of after school activities for children, has regular story times for toddlers, has a gardening club for all ages and hosts numerous other activities for kids.
There's also an ongoing local history project where members of the public are encouraged to donate photographs of Nunsthorpe to the library's ever growing collection. The library also runs Nunny TV, Nunsthorpe's very own television show made by the community for the community, to be broadcast on Channel 7 and the internet.
Estate churches Saint Martin's, (consecrated in 1937), Saint Mark's (1959), both Church of England and Laceby Road Methodist (1970), together with Saint Pius X Roman Catholic Church on the Grange Estate, co-operate to provide a long-standing weekly 'pop-in' club at the Nunsthorpe Community Centre.
Apart from the social aspects of the club large sums of money have been raised for various charities. Another church, Grimsby Baptist (1960) is on Laceby Road and there is a Jewish cemetery situated near First Avenue and Cornwell Close. This was consecrated in 1896 thus pre-dating the estate.
The Diana, Princess of Wales hospital borders Nunsthorpe. In 2004 the maternity hospital in Second Avenue closed and its facilities were transferred to a new building in the hospital grounds. The Grimsby Community Clinic is in Kingsley Grove. There are shopping areas in Second Avenue, Sutcliffe Avenue and Bradley Park.
The Nunsthorpe Business Units are in Winchester Avenue; these were built in 1994 to help residents set up their own enterprises. There is a recreation ground, a community gymnasium and a public house called the Nunsthorpe Tavern, all in Sutcliffe Avenue. Bus route number 5 [17] operates from Bradley Park to Grimsby town centre and Europarc business estate, while route 13 [18] runs through Nunsthorpe, linking it with Grimsby town centre and Cleethorpes.
★ Nunsthorpe & Bradley Park Children's Centre
★ Nunsthorpe & Bradley Park Full Service Extended Schools
★ Nunsthorpe & Bradley Park Residents & Tenants Association
★ Nunsthorpe Community Centre
★ Nunsthorpe Community School
★ Nunsthorpe Library
★ Nunsthorpe Youth Centre
★ Garden City History Group
★ Livewire Magazine
★ Saint Martins Youth Service
★ Second Avenue Resource Centre
★ Woodlands Primary School
★ Grimsby Telegraph
★ Livewire magazine
★ Old Nunsthorpe, The 'Garden City' Dream, by Dr. Margaret Gerrish
★ A History of Grimsby, by Edward Gillett
★ The Book of Grimsby, by David Kaye
★ The Enclosures of Scartho & Grimsby, by E.E. Gillett, R.C. Russell, E.H. Trevitt
★ The Streets of Grimsby and Cleethorpes, by R.J. Brooks
★ Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Forum minutes
There are over 2,400 homes on the estate, mostly former council properties now
owned by the Shoreline Housing Partnership. There is a small area belonging to the Havelok/Northern Counties housing associations and a small area of private sector housing. There are a number of privately owned former council houses purchased under the Right to Buy scheme.
The pre-World War Two development in the eastern part of the estate is known as Old Nunsthorpe while the post-war development is called New Nunsthorpe.
To the west lies the 'Bradley Park Estate' which contains around 430 dwellings, also mostly Shoreline properties. The combined population of Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park is approximately 8,000.
To the north, on the other side of Laceby Road, is the Grange Estate and on the eastern boundary, in Scartho Road, is Grimsby Swimming Pool. The Scartho Top private housing estate lies to the south.
Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park are part of the Grimsby South ward[1] of North East Lincolnshire unitary authority. The two estates are also within the area served by the Grimsby South Local Team [2] of Humberside Police.
Origins and development
Although built in the 20th century, Nunsthorpe takes its name from the nuns who once inhabited the priory of Saint Leonard [3]. This stood at modern day Nuns Corner, where Scartho Road joins Laceby Road. "Thorpe" was an old word for village.
The priory was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. In later years the land was occupied by Nuns Farm and in 1954 Grimsby College, now called The Grimsby Institute of Higher and Further Education, acquired the site.
Situated at the southern edge of Grimsby (before the boundary extensions), for centuries the land where Nunsthorpe now stands was comprised of open fields. Lying mainly within the town of Grimsby it stretched westward from the priory, as far as the boundary with Bradley parish and southward, beyond the boundary with the parish of Scartho. Under enclosure awards of 1798 (in Scartho) and 1840 (in Grimsby) [4] this land was acquired by Lord Yarborough
Old Nunsthorpe
Following the end of World War One decent homes were needed for the returning servicemen. House building was started by Grimsby County Borough Council in 1920, on land bought from Lord Yarborough.
Originally called the Laceby Road Site until 1923 the new Nunsthorpe housing estate, with its modern conveniences and large gardens, was also known as Garden City.
Most of the streets in this early development, built during the 1920s and 1930s, were named after famous people - Burns, Byron, Kingsley, Leighton, Newton, Walton groves; Milton Road and Shelley Avenue. Dame Kendal Grove was named after a Grimsby-born actress while Sutcliffe Avenue was named after Jack Sutcliffe, a previous mayor of Grimsby.
Saint Martin's Mission Church, a wooden building, was built during 1922 in Sutcliffe Avenue; this was replaced by a new church in 1937. The first shops, including a post office, were built in Second Avenue during 1927/28 and a bus service (route 3) was introduced from Grimsby town centre to Nunsthorpe in 1928. In later years this service was extended to Cleethorpes.
Also in 1928 the greater part of Scartho was absorbed, which brought the whole of the present Nunsthorpe area under the control of Grimsby council [5]. At the same time part of Bradley parish was acquired on which the Bradley Park Estate would eventually be built [6].
Nunsthorpe School was opened on Sutcliffe Avenue in 1931; previously children from the estate had been bussed to a school in another part of the town. During the late 1920s a maternity hospital was established in Second Avenue using converted council houses. This was incorporated into a new building which opened in 1933. In 1943 a number of people were killed and houses were damaged when butterfly bombs were dropped on the estate during a German air raid on Grimsby [7].
New Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park
In the larger post World War Two development the streets were mostly named after Lincolnshire villages, with the exception of Winchester Avenue and a few streets in the area of private housing, which were named after historic English towns. This council house development included the single storey prefabs. Built in 1946 to help alleviate the housing shortage, they were meant to last for only ten years but endured for a much longer period.
In 1947 a large wooden hut was purchased and erected in Burwell Drive. This became the estate's earliest community centre, opened in 1949, at the same time as the formation of Nunsthorpe's first community association.
1952 saw the opening of the branch library in Wootton Road.
During the late 1970s the Bradley Park Estate estate was built on land between Nunsthorpe and the Bradley Recreation Ground.
Some place names in Bradley Park, such as Bremerhaven Way, reflect Grimsby's links with its twin town, although Wymark View was named after the actor who was born in nearby Cleethorpes. Dolby Vale took its name from Sidney Vere Dolby, a long-serving radiologist at Grimsby General Hospital.
The development also included Crosby School (now called Woodlands) which probably took its name from Crosby Road, situated at the rear of the school. Crosby Road itself was named after Crosby village, which is now part of Scunthorpe.
Improvement schemes and resident consultation
In 1992, for purposes of resident consultation, Grimsby council divided the area into four neighbourhoods. Because of its size New Nunsthorpe was split into two neighbourhoods - Nunsthorpe Central and Nunsthorpe West, while Old Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park formed the remaining two. Each area had a steering committee.
At that time discussions were taking place on the possibility of setting up a tenant management organisation in each neighbourhood. Independent consultants were brought in to canvass the views of residents but nothing developed from this idea.
In 1994 the Department for the Environment approved multi-million pound funding for Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park. This Estate Action scheme allowed for internal improvements to council houses and general improvements, such as better street lighting, the provision of off-road parking facilities and dropped kerbs for the convenience of wheelchair users. It also included the installation of traffic calming measures.
All the prefabs of aluminium construction were renovated and are still in use. However, most of the prefabs containing asbestos were demolished between 1994 and 1997, in spite of a campaign to retain them in a renovated capacity. Of the original 181 such prefabs only three owner-occupied ones now remain.
Local housing association, Havelok, and the Northern Counties housing association, were allocated part of the vacant prefab land for the construction of properties. Some of the land remained empty, part of it forming the open grassed area situated between Burwell Drive and Winchester Avenue. There have been suggestions that this land be used as a recreation park but so far nothing has been decided.
Consultative forum
The Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Consultative Forum, established in 1992 to co-ordinate the neighbourhood steering groups, was reorganised and became directly elected by a postal ballot of residents at two yearly periods.
The reconstituted forum held its inaugural meeting in 1995, with annual general meetings being held thereafter. In addition to the delegates elected from 13 areas (later reduced to six), ward councillors and council officers also attended meetings of the main committee and sub-committees.
The forum had three sub-committees, one being the Economic, Social and Cultural Development sub-committee (ESCD). Another sub-committee dealt with council tenant issues only, while the third concerned itself with wider estate action improvements, which effected tenants and homeowners. As circumstances changed these sub-committees were gradually merged with the main committee.
The ESCD had delegates on the project team charged with establishing a resource centre on the estate. When the Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Resource Centre opened in 1995 its manager attended ESCD meetings. Representatives from local churches, schools, the police and other agencies were also invited to attend this sub-committee's meetings. The forum was dissolved in 2004.
Two residents associations, Bradley Park and Nunsthorpe Central, which existed between 1993 and 1999, also sent delegates to the forum. These associations had replaced the steering committees for their respective neighbourhoods. From 1995 they were based at the resource centre.
Attempts to set up resident associations in Old Nunsthorpe and Nunsthorpe West were unsuccessful, however from 1996 Old Nunsthorpe and Nunsthorpe Central residents began holding joint meetings. During 1997 a second residents association was briefly formed on Bradley Park in opposition to the existing group. Also in that year a short-lived Nunsthorpe South association was formed.
A Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Youth Association (now defunct) was established in 1996, supervised by the two adult associations. National Lottery funding enabled this organisation to employ a full-time youth worker based at the resource centre.
Council housing stock transfer
In 2004 tenants in North East Lincolnshire were balloted on whether the council housing stock should be transferred to a housing association. Transfer would release money that was unavailable to the council for improvements to properties.
After a "yes" vote the remaining council houses on the two estates (around 1,600), together with the rest of the authority's housing stock, were transferred to the new locally-based Shoreline Housing Partnership [8] in March 2005.
Shoreline tenants on the estates send two delegates to the Boroughwide Tenant Assembly [9]. One delegate represents Nunsthorpe East and Nunsthorpe Central while the other represents Nunsthorpe West and Bradley Park.
Shoreline undertook a programme of investment in the transferred properties over a period of ten years. Planned home improvements include, where necessary, modern kitchens, bathrooms, central heating, decent roofs, security doors and windows, as well as smoke alarms. However there are still parts of Nunsthorpe where it is difficult to attract tenants and houses remain boarded up.
Community organisations
A number of organisations currently work in Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park, supporting residents and helping to overcome anti-social behaviour by the small minority. One of these is the Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Community Association which is based at the purpose-built community centre in Wootton Road.
The centre was opened in 1985 by local snooker celebrity Ray Edmonds. The association existed from 1985 to 1994 and was re-established in 2004.
In 2007 the association received £14,320 from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and Millenium Inorganic Chemicals. The money paid for alterations to the building's ceiling, repairs to the heating system and the installation of safety glass in the doors and windows.
Other organisations include:
★ Saint Martin's Community Action Group, formed in 2004
★ Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Residents and Tenants Association (2005)
★ Nunsthorpe Tenants and Residents Association (2006)
★ Nunsthorpe Young Peoples Service, based in Wootton Road and run by North East Lincolnshire Council.
South Ward Action Group was formed in 2002 and dissolved in 2006. The Second Avenue Resource Centre (formerly the Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Resource Centre) was opened in 1995 on the former Sutcliffe Special School site.
In 2003 a quarterly magazine called Livewire was introduced. Livewire gives news and views from around Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park. It incorporated the resource centre newsletter, Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Matters, which had regularly been distributed to houses in the area since 1995.
In 2006 the Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park United Football Club, comprising of young people led by Manager Chris Humphries, was formed with the support of Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Residents and Tenants Association (2005).
The Neighbourhood Safety Scheme [10], based at the Shoreline premises in Second Avenue, is a multi-agency organisation working to reduce crime on the estates. Nunsthorpe Forward is another multi-agency group. Safer Communities (North East Lincolnshire) [11] has an office in Burwell Drive.
Activities
'Saint Martins Action Group'
In 2007 a group of Nunsthorpe residents led by activist Steve Hill, supported by the local policing team inspector and the Rector of Grimsby, appeared on the TV programme, Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway. They were seeking funds
to turn part of Saint Martin's church hall into a children's activity centre.
The panel awarded them £45,000 [12]. A further £300,000 came from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, thus enabling building work to begin. When completed the facility will have a maze of play areas - tunnels, slides, ball pools and climbing areas - also music rooms and quiet rooms where teenagers and children can do their homework.
'Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Residents and Tenants Association'
Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Residents and Tenants Association (2005) Limited is a social enterprise. In 2007 it opened a thrift shop, information and advice centre next to the post office at
57 Second Avenue.
A meeting centre will shortly be opening situated above the shop. This facility will be for the whole of North East Lincolnshire, but mainly
will be provided for Nunsthorpe & Bradley Park's recognised community groups to use.
The association is trying to persuade North East Lincolnshire Council to re-open its premises at 19 Wooton Road as an office complex, cafe and
committee room. They are also negotiating to re-open the old branch library for use as an older teenage club and boxing club/games room.
They have joined forces with the Young Peoples Service to provide a full time youth centre with a football club, music/dance club and drama club. Fishing is based at Bradley Ponds in joint operation with Waltham Fisheries and football is organised with Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park United.
Camping holidays for the youth of the area are planned.
Education
The Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Children's Centre in Sutcliffe Avenue (formed in 2004 by the combination of the Sure Start Centre and Nunsthorpe Nursery School), Woodlands Acorns Daycare Centre on Bradley Park and Butterflies Day Nursery based at the resource centre, provide support for the estates' children.
Primary education is provided by the Nunsthorpe Community School (situated next to the Children's Centre) and Woodlands Primary School in Pinewood Crescent, Bradley Park. Both schools became the first primary schools in Britain to achieve Centre of Excellence status for their use of interactive whiteboards [13]. Nunsthorpe Community School was created in 2001 by the merger of the Nunsthorpe infants and junior schools.
In 1990 the Crosby first and middle schools changed their name to Bradley Park first and middle. In 1999 the two schools amalgamated, undergoing another change of name to Woodlands Primary School. It was the first school in the country to introduce the five-term year [14].
The Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Full Service Extended Schools organisation provides activities, often outside school hours, for children, parents and the wider community.
Saint Mary's Roman Catholic School, a specialist languages and humanities college, is located in Wootton Road. In 2006, as part of a policy to reduce surplus school places, North East Lincolnshire Council proposed the closure of the Saint Mary's site and its merger with Matthew Humberstone Church of England School, Cleethorpes [15].
In 2004 The Grimsby Institute bought and renovated a disused part of the Nunsthorpe school complex in Sutcliffe Avenue. In 2006 this opened as the Institute's Nunsthorpe Community Campus which houses animal care, building construction and horticulture courses. Its leisure facilities are available for public use [16].
The Nunsthorpe branch library was relocated and its facilities are now based at the Sutcliffe Avenue college site, under a partnership arrangement between the Institute and North East Lincolnshire Council. As well as holding academic stock for students, there is a great selection of novels, non fiction and talking books available for all ages.
The library also has an internet cafe for public use, hosts a number of after school activities for children, has regular story times for toddlers, has a gardening club for all ages and hosts numerous other activities for kids.
There's also an ongoing local history project where members of the public are encouraged to donate photographs of Nunsthorpe to the library's ever growing collection. The library also runs Nunny TV, Nunsthorpe's very own television show made by the community for the community, to be broadcast on Channel 7 and the internet.
Religion
Estate churches Saint Martin's, (consecrated in 1937), Saint Mark's (1959), both Church of England and Laceby Road Methodist (1970), together with Saint Pius X Roman Catholic Church on the Grange Estate, co-operate to provide a long-standing weekly 'pop-in' club at the Nunsthorpe Community Centre.
Apart from the social aspects of the club large sums of money have been raised for various charities. Another church, Grimsby Baptist (1960) is on Laceby Road and there is a Jewish cemetery situated near First Avenue and Cornwell Close. This was consecrated in 1896 thus pre-dating the estate.
Facilities
The Diana, Princess of Wales hospital borders Nunsthorpe. In 2004 the maternity hospital in Second Avenue closed and its facilities were transferred to a new building in the hospital grounds. The Grimsby Community Clinic is in Kingsley Grove. There are shopping areas in Second Avenue, Sutcliffe Avenue and Bradley Park.
The Nunsthorpe Business Units are in Winchester Avenue; these were built in 1994 to help residents set up their own enterprises. There is a recreation ground, a community gymnasium and a public house called the Nunsthorpe Tavern, all in Sutcliffe Avenue. Bus route number 5 [17] operates from Bradley Park to Grimsby town centre and Europarc business estate, while route 13 [18] runs through Nunsthorpe, linking it with Grimsby town centre and Cleethorpes.
External links
★ Nunsthorpe & Bradley Park Children's Centre
★ Nunsthorpe & Bradley Park Full Service Extended Schools
★ Nunsthorpe & Bradley Park Residents & Tenants Association
★ Nunsthorpe Community Centre
★ Nunsthorpe Community School
★ Nunsthorpe Library
★ Nunsthorpe Youth Centre
★ Garden City History Group
★ Livewire Magazine
★ Saint Martins Youth Service
★ Second Avenue Resource Centre
★ Woodlands Primary School
References
★ Grimsby Telegraph
★ Livewire magazine
★ Old Nunsthorpe, The 'Garden City' Dream, by Dr. Margaret Gerrish
★ A History of Grimsby, by Edward Gillett
★ The Book of Grimsby, by David Kaye
★ The Enclosures of Scartho & Grimsby, by E.E. Gillett, R.C. Russell, E.H. Trevitt
★ The Streets of Grimsby and Cleethorpes, by R.J. Brooks
★ Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Forum minutes
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