Hope Street (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780992861704)

Mike Mitchell was born in 1958 in Cleethorpes, he has worked in the seafood industry since 1981. Mike is renowned both nationally and internationally in the field of seafood sustainability and has written on this subject in trade journals and in the academic press. Whilst foraging in a store cupboard in the offices where he works on Grimsby docks, Mike discovered a trove of old photographs and other materials from the company's history, dating back as far as the 1940's. Amongst this find was an album of black and white photographs taken during the early 1960's, they were simple but compelling images of people going about their everyday work in the factories of the day. This set Mike's mind working; who were these people and what were their stories? Hope Street is the imagined story inspired by them, and although the people and events portrayed in this book are fictional, such stories of love and loss have been played out many thousands of times in the real lives of the people who lived and worked in Grimsby during the fishing years.