We Are Marshy Folk....

The reeds remember...

Ask most people what comes to mind when we talk about the East or West Marshes of Grimsby, and what's likely is a row of terraced housing or statistics about areas of deprivation. An image of salt marsh or sheep grazing is unlikely to be the first thing you think of. We Are Marshy folk is a CreateNEL-funded project that aims to change that view with illustrated research into what our landscape looked like before the coming of the railways and the docks. A landscape that the Vikings would have recognised. Knowledge and understanding about how our coast works and why we have unique features like blow wells and chalk streams is of fundamental importance as climate change will start to impact on our North Sea coastline. The clues are all there to how Grimsby used to look, it's just taken a lot of research to pull them together to create a different story of our town. We Are Marshy Folk, we've just forgotten about our watery past, it's time to dip our toes in the water again...