The first Grimsby Gang Show was held in 1956 at South parade Methodist Church, followed in 1957 by using Old Clee School. In that year two of the cast, Kier Davie and Paul Winterton were honoured by Ralph by being selected to augment the London Gang for the Royal Command performance.
In the following years the Gangshow has been performed at many places in the Grimsby and Cleethorpes area including Theatre Royal ( now demolished), A.B.C. cinema Cleethorpes ( now demolished and replace by a fast food outlet) and Cleethorpes Pier Pavillion (now Pier 39 night club) until after the 1965 show production was suspended for several years. However, the demand for the Gang Show still existed and in 1970 Keir Davie and Norris Alderson revived the Show at the Pier Pavillion, From then , with the exception of 1973 when it went to Hereford School, the Show was staged annually on the Pier.
We had our dress rehearsal on the Sunday and the first performance on the Monday, which was OAPs night'. We then went through to Saturday where we had a matinee in the afternoon followed by a break for tea and some time spent in Wonder Land ( also alas no-more )"you didn't half get some funny looks if you didn't get all your makeup off" and then a night performance
In those days the gangshow
uniform was all white shorts, socks, plimsoles, t-shirts, with
shorts for the boys and 
tennis
skirts for the girls. the membership for that year was very much
more boys than girls. In the latter part of the 1980s the
rehearsal uniform changed to Dark trousers and a red T-shirt or
sweat-shirt with GS Grimsby on the upper Left side, in 1989 the
logo was changed to the GS Grimsby surfing a wave, the wave
contains the first few bars of Crest.The cast now contains more
girls than boys although most of them are Scouts with 
Guides adding a good balance in the
Show
When the Pier closed down
The show moved to the Central Hall in Duncolme St Grimsby and the
following year it moved again to the Memorial hall Cleethorpes
were it remained up-to 1992 when moved to the Ice House Christian
centre for 3 years, We then moved to the new Grimsby Auditorium (
the acoustics are better in the entrance than they are on stage )
there we have remained.
. The show remains as always a
variety show taking it material from the popular shows as well as
the London variety show and the Royal gala shows. 
As the fifth
provincial Gang show in this country the Gang are currently
qualified to wear the red neckerchief with the Gang Show
insignia. This logo has to be won by the standard of Show
presented over the years; it has to be deserved, and is regarded
as an honour when presented to a show
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|||
| If you have a programme
from one of our shows that we haven't got here and would
be willing to loan it, please email The Grimsby Gang Show gs.grimsby3 a ntlworld.com We are looking for the programme & the cast photo |
||||
|
the cover from this year's
programme |
WWW.Digits.Com you are visitor |
All material on this site is © copyright of Grimsby Gang Show
