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YOU CAN’T BEAT GRIMSBY’S MAIN STAND

ANDY FREEMAN looks at the history of the Mariners, Blundell Park and the Main Stand that’s witnessed so much…

IT’S Saturday, November 28, 2015. Rather a dull, drizzly November day and Grimsby Town, the Mariners, are at home, Blundell Park, to Kidderminster in the National League.
The Mariners have been at Blundell Park since 1899 when they first leased the land adjacent to the Imperial Hotel in Cleethorpes. The stands from their previous Abbey Park ground were dismantled and re-erected on the new site. Season 1901/02 saw them arrive for the first time in Division On...

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