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New season

[quote author=justwise post=95339853][/quote]Thanks so much.

Only one star in the sky, one is not even sure if it is a star or a satellite.

Well this morning the clock went back by one hour, I slept for an additional one hour. But not so for people that worked night duty last night.
The season has changed. It gets dark at 1600hr unlike before when the sun shines till 2130hr.
This is my street this evening at 1630hr and 1700hr.

Richdee1:
When you settle, can you post pics or start a thread? Make we sef see UK through ur eyes?
Ur choice tho".

Symbae, a challenge for you.

@Justwise, I think the antispam bot hid one of my posts and banned me for 24 hours. Can the post be retrieved, please. Thanks.

Symbae:
Thank you so much soknown. I'm currently at the hospital accommodation at crawley to be due soon and yes Taj shop has been my saviour from junks Lol. I dont have my family so I'm going with room share for now, I have also tried searching on some of the websites mentioned but saw few with outrageous prices. Maybe I will consider the letting agents as well as the areas you mentioned. How do I contact the letting agents? I will be coming for more survival tips

You are welcome, If you are considering room share, spareroom and roomforlet are your best bet. You could request for ensuite room for more convenience if you are a lady.

You can also put your name down for the hospital accommodation, I mean the at the Redhill hospital. Just to give you time to check for a convenient room in town after which you can move out. Personally I never liked the hospital accommodation, because you get the feeling that you are still at work even after close of work since you are on the hospital ground. So I did not apply for it.

If you have like-minded or friends in your cohort, 2 or 3 of you can pull fund together to rent a flat, then share the rooms according to your numbers and the Bills.

Finally, Ask your colleagues, some might be looking for housemates.

Tinyemeka:
LOL.

Even though your post wasn't for me, I felt obliged to highly commend you for your thorough and in-depth response to queries. They really are helpful, even for those who are yet to make the move.

More power chief.

Thank you for your kind words. I am happy to know that the thread is adding value to people.

HEART1234:
@ Soknown

I like your write up and appreciate how you are giving helping hands to nairalanders


You're doing a great job here, kudos to you sir.

This songs is evergreen and the lyric is full of messages to discern.

Songs like this are not for commoners but those that can have deep thought[font=Lucida Sans Unicode]@ Soknown

I like your write up and appreciate how you are giving helping hands to nairalanders


You're doing a great job here, kudos to you sir.

This songs is evergreen and the lyric is full of messages to discern.

Songs like this are not for commoners but those that can have deep thought

Thank you, songs like that are hard to come by nowadays. Regards.

oyetunjibaba:
Good evening bro,how r u doing?
Bro i hvnt seen ur reply to the last message on mail.

I sent a message to someone who I believe could help, still waiting for the feedback. Regards.

Symbae:
Great work Soknown, God bless. I have just moved to UK currently working at ESH, how do I go about searching for affordable accomodation in redhill or it environs close to the hospital

Hi Symbae, thanks for your kind words.

If you want to live close to the hospital, consider - Earlswood estate ( Expensive though) or White bushes. The two locations are within walking distances to the hospital. A little farther but still within walking is Salsford and areas around Earlswood train station ( Brambletye, St' John's road, Earlsbrook road and woodland road). Otherwise try around the town Center with it's easy access to bus, taxi and train. If you are not a 'spend-shy' like me, try Noble house on Queensway. ( a two bed room is about £1200pcm). You can also consider areas around St' Anne street, really nice neighbourhood, or area around the catholic church going towards Holmesthorpe or Park 25.

Do not go towards Merstham unless you can drive. Also I will not advise going towards Linkfield lane, it is deserted and dark at night because of the trees.

Reigate is cool but expensive unless you are extremely lucky, I had someone who got a two bedroom flat at £900, She was really lucky.
Horley is also close-by.

Letting agents that you can use, Woodland and may be Connels. Do not use Andrews, Leaders and another one close to McDonald's.

If you don't have your family with you, consider a room share.

You can search through, spareroom.com, rightmove.com, zoopla.com, intolondon.com.
Please view wherever you choose before you pay.
Start searching on time, give it time. Don't rush.

By the way, Halal shop, adjacent to McDonald's sells African food stuff or you can go Taj shop in Crawley close to the County mall. When you settle down, you can go to Croydon, Peckham or Dustin to shop for your Nigerian food stuff.

Welcome and i wish you a fruitful, happy stay.

oyetunjibaba:
Good morning sir, how're you doing?
I sent you a message on your email,pls check sir
Thanks

Good morning, I will check and revert. Thanks.

EngrSaks:
Hahahaha, no oh....we should all buy our own homes..and then buy more to rent out sef....create generational wealth instead of living a "posh" life wey nor balance

Preference, Preference, Preference my friend.

Lexusgs430:
All of us in one house?.....

How big would this house be, if I may ask.........

Lolz, Table-shaker.

EmmyKing86:
Good morning all.

Trust everyone is well and keeping safe.

Please, for all those who had/have tier 2 BRP, is there any penalty if our passports expire without renewal on time?

My current passport expires on January, applied for passport renewal August and still have not received biometrics appointment.

I really would not want any blemish on my immigration record as I would be eligible to apply for ILR (10 year route) next year.

Cheers.

Mine expired in June, I paid for the renewal in the same month. I was contacted to come for the Biometric this week. Rumours have it that they have a lot of backlogs to sort out because of the lockdown.
My friend paid for renewal in January, she was contacted to come for Biometric capture in July.
The Covid 19 saga disrupted a lot of activities, you know.
If you don't get an appointment by October ending. I suggest that you should print out your payment acknowledgement details and go to the Nigeria House.
Let me know if you need further assistance by then.

EmmyKing86:
@ Soknown.

So you paid for passport renewal in June and had your biometrics this week.

Was you passport already expired before biometric capture?

Cheers

It expired in June.

umarwy:
The elevator wasn't functional (even if it was it's not directly accessible as it's behind there counter after a locked door.

Talk of hoarding and hiding hebephrenic tendencies of Nigerian leaders.
Anyways let's move on from the distressing story.

Lexusgs430:
Even if you plan ahead, how do you answer that special call of nature.............

My advice - :

Take an overdose of laxido, insert a flexi-seal rectal tube, insert a catheter, take some fluids and snacks........

You would not have the need to stand up at all............

Talk of what Nigeria can do to one, even outside the shores of Nigeria.

fatima04:
Before you step into the building, it feels like you are back to Nigeria with all its woes and challenges. NOTHING works and they don't even care. Best to plan ahead for anyone doing renewal

Best advice, plan ahead.

umarwy:
Have the elevator been fixed? Is the building currently disabled friendly

I am not sure of the elevator, but there is no disabled access or modified access for a wheelchair or a stretcher. May be its somewhere hidden from sight. You know our leaders like to hoard and hide things.

TheGuyFromHR:
The House of Horror on Northumberland Avenue.
I will be fellowshipping with them sometime next year - my passport is just about full - and I'm already dreading the experience.

Dreadful indeed. I paid for the renewal in June. I was informed to come for the biometric this week.
When I got tired of waiting without any explanation.
I mailed the High commissioner, the deputy high commissioner then the secretariat or something virtually all the mail address on the contact list. Not one replied.

claremont:
The last time I was there was in 2012 to reissue my passport, which has since expired. Not looking to renew anytime soon. I see a lot of posts about people seemingly in desperation to renew passports, I must be the odd one out as mine expired years ago and I have no immediate need to renew it.

The Nigerian embassy in London is a representation of Nigeria. The good, the bad and the ugly.

It's a frustrating experience.

Lack of maintenance culture.

Apologies to the OP, I didn't want to create a new thread for this. So permit me to just drop this here.

I was in the Nigerian house few days ago, it was really cold outside so when I got in, I wanted to use the Gent.
Lo and behold, it was all broken.

The WC flush handle for the two of the cubes was broken and the third one was locked, with a tag on it. BROKEN.
Thankfully the Urinal were not blocked so I did my business, wash my hands. Took some pictures and left.

I know I should have complained, but to who exactly?

If you have been in Nigeria house recently or you plan to attend. Just visit the convenience at the basement. You will see what I have seen.

Ceesnation:
Please I still need your response plssss... CC fatima04, mamatuwas, justwise, omopapa and all.

I used to live in Surrey, lovely neighbourhood all through the county. But really expensive.
Easy to get around without driving, less traffic disruption.
Good education facilities and a lot more, on the bill though.
It's a nice place to live in after you have settled in and make some quid.
Other locations that you mentioned, I have no clue.
Best Regards.
QS.

Rubygold1:
Hello. I have just been allocated to work at Bradley Complex, Grimsby. Could we hook up via email or chats pls? My email address is petitenurse1@gmail.com. Kindly drop a message for me

Hello Rubygold1,
Trust you are well. Welcome to Grimsby.
Regards.
Quaint Soknown

God bless you Pa Tunji Oyelana


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYSm5579oyM

I woke up this morning, craving this classic.
Apologies, if you do not understand the language or the lyrics.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DMqHSD4hFE

Nisot7:
Plz bro, do you know hbv DNA cost?

I don't know my friend, If you contact NIMR in Yaba, You will get the current cost.

molbic:
Oga Soknown I enjoyed your UK thread abi tread

Thank you so much.

mimilyrics:
She applied for a student visa, not the health and care visa.

Oh ok, Thank you.

Grimsby, or more correctly Great Grimsby, situated on the east coast of the nation's agricultural heartland of Lincolnshire, is a fascinating town. At one time the largest fishing port in the country, the town and its nearby settlements add a vital and exciting chapter to the cultural heritage of the country.

But where did it all start?

In pre-Roman times, the Lincolnshire Wolds and its surrounding environs were home to the Celtic tribe of the Coritani. The capital of their civilisation, though based in Ratae Coritanorum (Leicester), extended over the Lincolnshire Wolds and right out to the coastal areas that encompassed the regions now covered by Grimsby and the south bank of the Humber estuary.

The Romans began their conquest of Britain in the mid first century AD. They established a military fortress at Lindum (now Lincoln) on the Wolds, and set up posting stations at nearby Owmby and Caistor. In these times, the area surrounding Grimsby was a source of salt (which was got by panning), and this was a reason for the Romans to extend their dominion into the area as far north as Caistor, some 12 miles south of Grimsby. Coming northwards from here, around AD 100 a small group of Roman workers appears to have settled at an unnamed site on the Humber bank - this in time formed the nucleus of Grimsby today.

However, it was the advent of the Danes that first saw the founding of the town upon which its history is founded. These seafaring aggressors appeared on the southern bank of the Humber towards the end of the 9th century. Reputedly, 'Grimsbye' was the point of disembarkation for the first Danish invasion fleet to arrive on British shores.

The most frequently documented references to the history of Grimsby take their origin from ‘The Lay of Havelok the Dane'. This poetical tale, the earliest known version of which dates back to 1170, some 834 years ago, tells the tale of a Danish fisherman named Grim, who legend says was responsible for the founding of the settlement of Grimsby.

Grim is alleged to have come to the area and settled at a point where the local river Haven entered the Humber estuary, and here at 'Haven's lock' he formed the 'village of Grim'. The Haven was so named because it formed a natural haven for boats to shelter from the storms, and as news of the settlement spread, more Scandinavians came to the area from across the North Sea, integrating well with the local people; the village became a thriving centre for fishing. The newly naturalised Scandinavians traded their produce with other towns and villages to the north and south of the Humber area, as well as across the sea to nearby France and Flanders.

The truth of the tale of Grim is like most historical narratives, open to conjecture. Havelok, a hero of medieval romance, was the orphan son of Birkabein, the King of Denmark. Amidst the complexity of Danish medieval politics, the young boy Havelok was cast adrift on the sea by his evil and treacherous guardian Godard, and doomed to a watery grave. This unpleasant fate was infinitely preferable to that of Havelok's two young sisters. Godard cold-bloodedly cut the throats of the fledgling princesses.
Legends tells us that a raft bore Havelok to the coast of Lincolnshire, where the fisherman Grim found and adopted him, raising him as his own son. Havelok in turn discovered the truth of his heritage, and married Goldburga, the princess daughter of King Athelwold of England, who lived in nearby Lincoln as a ward of Alsi the King of Lindsey. Havelok eventually returned to his homeland, where he became king of both Denmark and of the part of England held in trust by King Alsi for Goldburga. Havelok is reputed to have helped Grim distribute and sell fish; by virtue of his phenomenal strength, he could manhandle enormous fish baskets that were beyond the strength of ordinary men. When a period of drought and famine forced Havelok to seek work further afield, he joined the court of Alsi, the King of Lindsey, at Lincoln as a porter and scullion in the royal kitchens. He soon became renowned for his feats of strength. King Alsi, the ward of his niece, Princess Goldburga, had promised to marry her to the strongest and fairest man in the land. At a stone-throwing contest, Havelok managed to lift one great stone higher and hurl it further than anyone else, and thus he won the hand of his wife. The Havelock Stone sits outside the Welholme gallery in Grimsby, though whether this is the very stone reputedly thrown by Havelok to win the hand of Goldburga is for romantics to believe. In the fullness of time, King Havelok is said to have financially rewarded the ageing Grim for his kindness, and with this money the fisherman built Grim's town or Grimsby. A statue of the fisherman Grim stands today in the grounds of the Grimsby College of Technology at the Nuns Corner junction of Weelsby, Laceby and Scartho Roads.

Many scholars place ‘The Lay of Havelok the Dane' at the end of the 13th century, between 1280 and 1290, a fact supported by a surviving transcript of the poem held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. References to Havelok abound locally – for instance, Havelock School.

The settlement of Grimsby, conveniently sited at the confluence of the river Haven and the Humber, rapidly prospered as a fishing centre and as a centre for commerce. The town gets a mention in the Normans' Domesday Book of 1086, where it is named, alongside the nearby village of Swallow, as being a part of the lands belonging to Ralf de Mortemer. De Mortemer, Drew de Beurere and the better-known Bishop Odo of Bayeux, the half brother of William the Conqueror, were the biggest landowners in a region which at that time boasted a gallant population of just eighty-seven householders.

Grimsby prospered, and was to grow considerably. By the advent of the 12th century, the town’s population was between 200 and 250 souls, and an Augustinian abbey had been founded. In 1114, Henry I (who reigned from 1100 to 1135) granted St James's church to Robert Bloet, Bishop of Lincoln – it had previously been held by Osbert the Sheriff. Henry I also founded Wellow Abbey on the outskirts of the town. By the time Henry II took to the throne in 1154, the town had grown to become the twelfth largest in the country in commercial importance when assessed according to the level of taxes due to the crown.

Grimsby was respected as a port, and it was an established market town that could boast not one but two churches, as well as a mill and a ferry. It is therefore not surprising that King John granted Grimsby a royal charter in 1201. This was one of the oldest such charters in Britain, and with it the town was permitted to run an annual fair, and to manage its own court and local government. By 1218 prosperity had further enlarged the population to some 1,500 to 2,000 souls, who by now included the town's own mayor.

By this time, international trading links were still strongly connected to the Scandinavian countries. In 1230, the main trading cargoes from Norway included pine and boards, the beginning of the timber trade that has continued as a staple of commercial Grimsby docks traffic for 800 years to date. Other imports included wines from France and Spain, whilst coal was transported down the east coast from Newcastle. The main export was grain from the Lincolnshire regions and wool.

Underlying these enterprises, the rich fishing grounds of the North Sea provided a seemingly endless bounty.

By the 1920s Grimsby had grown into the largest and most prosperous fishing port in the world. A huge tonnage of cod, haddock and herring from the North Sea and the Icelandic fishing grounds was processed in the town to supply the length and breadth of the nation. During the inter-war years there was exceptional growth of the steam trawler fleets based in both Hull and Grimsby. These ships, with their port registration letters ‘H’ for Hull and ‘GY’ for Grimsby, are seen in many of the photographs of the docks at this time. It is an astonishing fact that Grimsby alone, from this time and until the mid 1970s, provided one fifth of all the fish consumed in the UK. The eventual decline in the industry came as a result of the fishing limitations that Iceland placed on their fishing ground, which resulted in the aptly named ‘cod wars’ of the 1970s. The outcome was a huge decline in fish landings and the eventual loss of the deep sea trawling fleet - the Grimsby fishing industry was decimated. Fortunately though, Grimsby people adapt. Smaller shallow-water seine fishermen took over, and with a substantial fresh fish processing and cold storage facility in town, fish was still brought overland to Grimsby for sale and processing. The overall difference in fish tonnages passing through Grimsby is much reduced, but it has not spelt a death knell for the docks.

In recent years the Grimsby and Cleethorpes region has become one of the big commercial success stories, and the area has enjoyed unprecedented levels of inward investment. For several consecutive years the massive twin ports of Grimsby and Immingham have been confirmed as the largest and busiest ports in the UK. Internationally they are the sixth busiest port complex in Europe, whilst Immingham alone is the second busiest ferry terminal in the country. Over 10% of the nation’s foodstuffs passes through the ports each day. Grimsby has set a standard as Europe’s food capital, which keeps the docks especially alive and flourishing, and trade in Grimsby’s £14 million state-of-the-art fish market is busy. Grimsby is now both the UK centre for buying, selling and freezing fish, and one of Europe’s premier fishing and fish processing centres, with the largest frozen storage capacity in Europe.

Appropriately for a place with such a strong fishing tradition, the multi-award-winning National Fishing Heritage Centre opened at the Alexandra Dock Grimsby in 1991. The trawler ‘Ross Tiger’, which is moored outside the centre, is an excellent reminder of the proud heritage that built the town.​

https://www.francisfrith.com/uk/grimsby/history