Take a nostalgic trip down into archive footage of Grimsby docks during the early 1930s when timber and fish were the main hives of activity.
Former Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell narrates this three minute footage which shows Grimsby as a seafaring town. Boats can be seen sailing into the Royal Albert Dock, with trawlers also moored up dockside.
The foundation stone for the dock was laid in 1849 by Prince Albert and officially opened five years later by Queen Victoria with her Consort by her side.
Timber can be seen being unloaded in vast quantities from a Swedish vessel, whilst bulging crates of fish are sold at the fish market auction.
The footage also includes some primitive diving gear, as an examination of the lock gates is carried out.
By the 1930s, bigger vessels equipped with radio equipment and echo-sounders were opened up fishing grounds even more distant - the Arctic Circle, Barents Sea, White Sea, Greenland and even the coast of Newfoundland.
During its heyday half of the fish landed in Great Britain passed through Grimsby and Hull and the footage shows 'Harry haddock' making his way from being filleted and smoked, to Cribb & Son fishmonger's on Bethlehem Street, before ending his days on a china plate!
In 1934 the new No 3 Fish Dock opened with three electrically-operated slipways that could handle trawlers up to 1,000 tons. Once pulled up the slipway the vessels, if required, could be “side slipped”.
It only took about 20 minutes to hoist a trawler up the slipway, much faster than draining and refilling a graving dock.
By 1936 only No 2 graving dock was operating and by the late 1930s both graving docks were obsolete and permanently flooded with water. The pumphouses were then stripped of all their machinery.
In the early 1930s a greyhound race track with a large wooden stand was laid out on fields at the end of Elsenham Road, but despite being popular with dockworkers it only lasted a short time.