Winter Gardens (Cleethorpes)

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The Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes was a popular and established entertainment venue on the town's sea front. It hosted many types of functions, including conferences, dances, dinners and live bands. Such groups to have played the venue include the Sex Pistols and The Stranglers and The Damned. It was able to accommodate over 500 people and regularly hosted punk events with two stages.

[edit] Popular events

The Winter Gardens hosted 3 major events. These were the Bags Ball (officially the melody night). the solid entertainment rock gigs and the Tea Dance.

[edit] Demolition

On February 12th 2007 the long running fight to halt the demolition was lost and the Winter Gardens was boarded up and scheduled for demolition. The Winter Gardens was demolished over the summer of 2007 Prior to the demolition there had been numerous calls and petitions by a large portion of the population of Grimsby and Cleethorpes to save the Winter Gardens or replace it with a similar venue.

North East Lincolnshire Council refused to remove the planning permission to demolish. The Winter Gardens was pulled down despite the fact property developers pulled out of constructing a new block of flats on the site.

As of June 2008 the site of the Winter Gardens is still empty.