Port of Grimsby

James Rendel was requested to draw up plans for new docks in 1843. His design placed docks on the extensive mudflats between high and low water north of the town – as planned 132 acres were to be enclosed or reclaimed, of which 27 acres would be water within the docks, with 20 acre for wharfage, and 85 acre of land for other buildings. The main dock was to be connected to the Humber by a basin of 11 acre bounded by piers of open construction to the east and west each of approximately 600 ft. The dock's entrance was to have two locks, one large and one small, Rendel also proposed a canal connecting the old and new docks, both for ships and to supply the new docks with fresh water. Part of…

17 April 1849 Albert, Prince Consort laid the first stone of the dock, an 11-ton stone forming part of the structure of the lock gates. The enclosed area had been drained by two 35 hp pumps – on a number of occasions fresh water springs were encountered, which were managed by enclosing the spring in a cast-iron pipe, and by surrounding the area with chalkstone. Two main locks were constructed, adjacent to one another, of 300 by and 200 by with the bases 6 and below low water respectively. The lock's foundations were excavated to 8 ft below the bottom of the locks, supported on wooden piles 1 by square by long, and a bed of concrete. The lock pit invert and supports for the lock gates were…

| repeal_date = 1 August 1849 | amendments = | repealing_legislation = Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Act 1849 | related_legislation = | status = Repealed | original_text = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OPkIekjA89oC&pg=PA809 | collapsed = yes }} Plans to re-engineer the haven and create a new dock were put forward from the late 1800s. Pickernell produced a plan for a dock in 1787. It was not until the (36 Geo. 3. c. 98) was enacted, creating the Grimsby Haven company. The act noted that the River ('Haven') at Grimsby was warped (silted) up, preventing most ships docking transferring cargo subject to the state of the tides, and so, suggested widening, deepening, and…