. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . GRIMSBY PEESENT. GRIMSBY PAST. know it in its low Mozley, speaking ofNorth Lincolnshire as heknew it in 1819, intimatesthat nobody went there excepton business, or to take theferry for Hull, or to go to themost dreary of all wateringplaces near what I remember as the miserable little port of Grimsby. ^ WilkieCollins makes one of his characters fly to Grimsby to be in safe hiding. WilliamCobbett, in driving from Louth to Barton, changed horses and breakfasted at to recall something that happened there he
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . GRIMSBY PEESENT. GRIMSBY PAST. know it in its low Mozley, speaking ofNorth Lincolnshire as heknew it in 1819, intimatesthat nobody went there excepton business, or to take theferry for Hull, or to go to themost dreary of all wateringplaces near what I remember as the miserable little port of Grimsby. ^ WilkieCollins makes one of his characters fly to Grimsby to be in safe hiding. WilliamCobbett, in driving from Louth to Barton, changed horses and breakfasted at to recall something that happened there he imagines his readers exclaiming—* What could you find there to be snatched from everlasting oblivion, except for thepurpose of execration ? t When Thomas King heard of it, its population was barely3,000, though that was an improvement on the 982 at which it stood in 1790. In shortthe local historian says: Grimsby was so obscure that it probably owed its place inmaps and topographical dictionaries to its privileges as a parliamentary and municipalborough.
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