Renovation plans have been unveiled for the derelict listed Ice Factory building in Grimsby which is on the Victorian Society’s top 10 list of structures most at risk of being lost.
A trust was set up two years ago to find a sustainable use for the Grade II* listed building in 2010.
The public is being asked to comment on the plans to turn it into an arts and business centre possibly involving an art gallery, cinema and other facilities.
The Ice Factory was built in 1900 to provide crushed ice for the town’s trawlers, to keep fish fresh in the ship’s hold. The last ice was produced in 1990 and the huge structure stands abandoned in the town’s fish docks, with some of the original ice-making machinery still in place.
The Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust said it intended to keep some of the original ice-making equipment as part of a history exhibition.
Read more information on the website of the Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust at http://ggift.co.uk/
