Our Four Year Plan

The Trustees of Friends of Cleethorpes Heritage have put together a four year plan of events, which ties in with the successful "Discovering Cleethorpes Heritage" Townscape Heritage funding bid. The ordering is provisional, but we want to give you an idea of what we have planned for the future because we'd like as many people as possible to contribute to our events, by sharing their stories, photographs and objects of interest that chart the history of the people and places of Cleethorpes.If you are interested in getting involved, please let us know. You can email us at friendsofcleethorpesheritage@gmail.com or via our Facebook page @CleethorpesHeritage. 

OUR FOUR YEAR PLAN

2018

• Building Bricks of Cleethorpes: The People and Places of Alexandra Road and Seaview Street

• The Railways and the Resort - talk and exhibition covering all aspects of the influence of the railway company on the development of Cleethorpes as a major seaside holiday destination

• Heritage Open Day at Cleethorpes Town Hall - “Extraordinary Women” – Sunday 16 September 2018, 10am-4pm

• Cleethorpes and the Great War: The End of WW1 – exhibition, talk by Katherine Connolly, Royal Armouries exhibition on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s war

In addition to these one-day events, we would also like to initiate an ongoing project called “Talking Meggies”, which will record people’s stories about Cleethorpes and invite them to bring along their Cleethorpes “antiquities”. Recording sessions would be held at our events during the year, with hopefully some outreach work into residential care homes or social groups where older people gather together.

We are also looking to hold an event to celebrate 100 Years of the Boy with the Leaking Boot, working in partnership with the Trustees of Cleethorpes Town Hall, which would include a talk by Alan Dowling.

2019

• Talking Meggies: The Exhibition – presenting the results of recording sessions in audio/video format. This may be combined with a photography/ art exhibition of local artists/photographers’ work featuring the Seaview Street/Alexandra Road area.

• Oh We Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside: Entertainment at Cleethorpes. exhibition to include history of the Empire Theatre, pre-recorded performances, music, notable local performers (such as Freddie Frinton), entertainments on offer from early 1800s onwards, cinemas/ theatres/ public houses in Alexandra Road/Seaview Street

• Heritage Open Day – theme to be confirmed by Heritage Open Days

• Cleethorpes: The Dark Side/Made in Cleethorpes: The Meggies who made history (for better or worse!) Local people who deserve to be famous (or infamous) but aren’t. Tales of bizarre and mysterious goings on, death, disease, criminal activities, prostitution, syphilis, madness, ghost stories, murders etc

2020

• The Changing Face of Cleethorpes – how the landscape has changed. Utilise our collections of postcards and photographs to chart the changes to the landscape

• 75th Anniversary of the end of WW2 - - Cleethorpes in WW2, heroes and heroines, impact on the town etc, (invite local people to contribute their wartime experiences)

• Heritage Open Day – theme to be confirmed by Heritage Open Days

• Religion and Education in Cleethorpes – John Wesley/Methodism/Baptists – building of first school in Cleethorpes by Methodists/Beach preachers (e.g. Bert Coulbeck)/St Peter’s Church/lost churches

2021

• Dishes of the Day – What Cleethorpes people were eating and drinking over the previous two centuries. What food was available, where did people go to get it, how much did it cost? How healthy were people’s diets compared to today? How was food cooked? What utensils were used? Hopefully we will engage with Cleethorpes businesses to recreate some of the dishes of the day for the public to try.

• “High Cliff Couture” - a timeline of fashion from 1800s onwards, both rich and not so rich. Ideally this event would incorporate a fashion show, showcasing fashion through the ages, right up to the modern day with local businesses participating.

• Heritage Open Day – theme to be confirmed by Heritage Open Days

• Future Cleethorpes –a speculation, either humorous or serious, on what Cleethorpes will look like in the future. People of all ages will be invited to submit their predictions, the more imaginative the better, in the form of creative writing and artwork.