By ‘Fish Town’ opens at Humber Royal for an impactful experience
A brand new ‘Fish Town’ exhibition will explore and celebrate 30 years of Grimsby’s Docks from the new EU legislation in the 1990s up until its exit from the EU in 2020.
The exhibition is now open at the Humber Royal Hotel, launched yesterday evening, attendees will be able to take a walk through history. As you navigate the room, various displays of work captivate the atmosphere of a bustling Grimsby Docks.
In the exhibition, a celebration of the transformation seen at Grimsby Docks and its unique way of life, preserving its heritage in stunning images, you can get an intimate experience of what the dock used to be like.
This monochrome body of work documents how the fish docks, its workers, and the community lived and worked, such a unique way of life ‘which suddenly ended in the summer of 1990’ and how, over 30 years, it evolved into a modern-day hi-tech, global seafood trading port.
Photographer Steve Thornton showcases the never before seen images of the working life of filleters and dock workers, the ice house at work, buying and selling, early morning auctions, cafés, and lots more.
The capture of these unique moments in time is made even more impactful by the use of monochrome to convey the “industrial starkness and an emotive, raw honesty”.
The exhibition will open at 10:30 am on July 8 and will be free to visit until July 10 at the Humber Royal Hotel in Grimsby.
New Fish Town books will also be launched at the exhibition alongside posters and free prize draws.
