Grimsby Heritage - Grimsby Town Hall

The present Town Hall is the fourth to be built in Grimsby. The first building was constructed in the 13th century with a newer Town Hall being built in 1395. Records show that it had a storehouse, a jail and a chamber.

The present Town Hall opened in 1863. The cost of the building was £6500. On the wall of the facade, in the spandrels over the arches, six circular panels are situated containing busts of the Queen and the Prince Consort, John Whitgift (Bishop of Lincoln and later Archbishop of Canterbury), King Edward III (who granted the land to the Freemen), the Earl of Yarborough (High Steward of the Borough) and Gervase Holles (historian and Mayor of Grimsby AD 1640).

In the centre of this group of buildings was an open court where prisoners could exercise. Below the Town Hall were the prison cells. Which have been transformed into the Time Trap Museum, where you can go back in time and see Great Grimsby in the early 1900's. There is also a Monopoly Board describing the origins of the streets of Grimsby.

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