00:00 My name is Malcolm Cullum and I'm the owner of this place which is the last remaining
00:08 tin bungalow in Immingham on Pallum Road of what was a whole town built for the navvies
00:15 who worked on Immingham Dock.
00:16 Can you just tell us about the history of the place?
00:19 Yeah, they were built in 1906 and they were presumably here for ten years and when the
00:29 dock was completed in 1912 they were sold off.
00:35 Most have been demolished but now this is the last one.
00:40 Can you just tell us about who would have lived here and the other buildings in the
00:46 town that were built at the same time?
00:49 Yeah, down the lower end of Immingham, it's still known as bottom end and top end, it
00:56 is on a slight slope, the town, towards the dock so we can't get flooded if there was
01:02 a surge.
01:03 And down the bottom end they built this whole town of what was mostly dormitories but they
01:10 built shops and a beer hall and things like that.
01:16 But they obviously put the bosses up the top end there, these bungalows are slightly bigger
01:23 and obviously they've been well maintained to remain all these years later.
01:29 So who actually lived in this property?
01:33 I can't remember exactly without looking on the board but it mostly was the engineers,
01:40 the chief engineer and the foreman and funny enough one was for the baker.
01:47 So why that was, they obviously considered the baker as a very important person.
01:54 I bought this in 1975, the one that was in Blossom Way was bought by my grandad in 1929
02:03 and so it won't be too long, it's now been in our family for 90 years, it's been demolished
02:10 but the land is still in our ownership.
02:12 It has varying tenants, one lady who was here for 20 years and it got to the point
02:22 with heat efficiency surveys that I couldn't let it anymore, they are rather cold in winter
02:29 I'm afraid.
02:30 And it's now a heritage centre?
02:35 Yeah that's it, I've taped it back, we've stripped all the walls and painted them in
02:41 the colours that we think originally we did find when we stripped the wallpaper off, we
02:47 found paint underneath but we think it was lead paint so we quickly painted over and
02:54 it's gone back to the Tundra Group boards, we've painted all the doors and skirtings
03:00 in brown paint, we've rewired in the old fashioned wire and taped it back as though
03:08 you were walking into somebody's house or bungalow in 1906, well around that time anyway.
03:16 And it must be quite exciting the fact that you're keeping this heritage of the town
03:21 going because this could have easily been lost into the midst of time.
03:25 It could be, I mean they did list the last three that was remaining, one mysteriously
03:33 burnt down, wasn't in our ownership I must say, the other one which was next door has
03:40 gone to Sandhoff Tramway Museum near Apwood and they've reassembled it so there's just
03:48 the two remaining now and I'm interested in Immingham history and so it seems a good
03:56 idea to do this.
03:58 Thanks.
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