Scunthorpe Town Centre Attractions.

Over the last 5 years Scunthorpe has had over ��60 million investment in its town centre. It boasts a 7 screen Vue cinema, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, set in the attractive Church Square, two shopping centres; The Parishes and The Foundry along with an array of well known brands, speciality shopping and caf�� culture areas.
The Foundry Shopping Centre is conveniently located in the heart of Scunthorpe. It offers both modern and traditional retailers, providing over 50 shops offering a wide variety and choice in a customer friendly environment. You���ll find favourites like Boots and WHSmith, fashion retailers like Dorothy Perkins and Burtons together with Westgate Department Store.

The Parishes, opened by HRH Queen Elizabeth provides a modern shopping experience created around pedestrian walkways, with easy access to the Parishes Multi Storey car park and the 7-screen Vue cinema.

Take a walk down the High Street which has a variety of well known High Street brands such as Marks and Spencer, Bhs, Topman & Topshop, the Body Shop and Mark One along with the independently owned fashion concept store Fallen Hero, brands include G Star, Duck and Cover, Religion, Bench, Replay and many more.
Planning a holiday? Look no further. There are travel agents to help you find that prefect lade deal, a great choice of places to shop for your holiday wardrobe, chemists to stock up on toiletries and High Street banks to order your currency from!

Make time to discover ���The Streets��� ��� Scunthorpe���s speciality shopping and caf�� area. Why not take a break from the shopping at one of the excellent caf��s or bistros. Treat yourself to a cappuccino, with a delicious cake or bowl of warming soup with a freshly filled baguette.
Ravendale Street, is quickly becoming the culinary centre of Scunthorpe and is well known for its caf�� culture, boasting a variety of excellent caf�����s and restaurants, visit The Coffee Baron and enjoy their traditional and continental dining along with the largest selection of speciality coffees in Scunthorpe.

Once you���ve refreshed yourself, meander down the part pedestrianised street to discover an excellent range of high quality stores. For some of the best gift ideas, try Pretty Feet, this unique shoe boutique sells designer A-list shoes and accessories at very affordable prices with brands including Strutt Couture, Salvadore Sepena and Emma Hope. If you���re planning a wedding this year, make sure you visit Nathalie French, the service is second to none with an excellent range of handmade accessories and inspirational gifts and jewellery.For that special occasion, Charles Richard has the enviable reputation as Scunthorpe���s wedding and evening hire specialist, offering a made to measure service alongside their ready to wear mensware ranges.
Mary Street is fast developing as a quality speciality shopping area with a wide variety of unique shops and boutiques. Discover wonderful lingerie, exotic blooms and unusual items for the home along with stylish gifts and designer children���s clothing. Come and treat yourself to a stylish new outfit or flower display for the home. There���s a warm welcome and our friendly independent retailers will really go out of their way to help you find that perfect something. If you���re looking for the right outfit for today���s busy woman, Charm have fashions for all occasions from eveningwear to casual all with accessories to match. Lu-b-Lu specialises in designer children���s and baby wear and with collections from worldwide suppliers, you���ll find excellent quality and value for money. For something different, A Class Apart sell a wide range of unusual gifts ranging from soft furnishing and furniture, to metal pedal cars and imported and hand made jewellery. Visit the tearoom and restaurant upstairs, A Class Above, for a refreshing drink or light meal, everything is cooked and prepared on the premises using the freshest local ingredients and produce.
Laneham Street is home to two of Scunthorpe���s leading fashion retailers, Smiths and David Jason, selling stylish male and female clothing. Scunthorpe Cheque Exchange offers a fast and friendly service covering cheque cashing, salary advances and Western Union Money Transfers. For the latest digital equipment, Tom Dennis is one of Lincolnshire���s leading independent imaging dealers, selling top brand products at competitive prices all with excellent customer care and an unrivalled aftercare service. Stop in store to view their ranges of cameras, video equipment, binoculars and accessories. If music���s your thing Pauls Music has everything for your musical needs, keyboards, guitars, amplifiers, flutes, clarinets, violins, sheet music and much more.

Dunstall Street, well known for its variety of specialist retail, has an excellent choice of unique independent businesses and is minutes from town centre parking. Whether you are looking for computing or clothing, you���ll find it all here. Coco Collections source their ranges from around the globe to form a truly fabulous collection of home and fashion accessories. High quality and handmade designs mean each product created is individual and unique. The Nail Spa is one if the newest additions to Dunstall Street and have created a relaxed and comfortable environment, offering the market leading hand and nail care systems. For the highest standards and a vast range of unique and innovative kitchen and bedroom designs, Absolute Kitchens and Bedrooms offer a personalised service of the highest quality. From classic and traditional to highly original designs all with matching accessories including hidden storage ideas, rails and lighting.
If you are looking for some of the freshest produce in town, variety and good value, Scunthorpe Market is the best place to shop. It has a friendly welcoming atmosphere with a choice to rival the largest supermarket!Friendly butchers sell wide varieties of different meats and will prepare the cut you want at prices you���ll love.

Fishmongers sell the freshest local fish together with more exotic varieties and seafood. With fresh fruit and vegetables, you are spoilt for choice. Don���t forget that Scunthorpe Market is also a great place to shop for clothing, handbags and shoes. Decorate your home with fresh flowers, fragrant candles and if you���re looking for something different there���s everything from power tools to mobile phone accessories, along with fine china, toys and an unrivalled selection of hand crafted teddy bears.

Parking is plentiful and convenient with over 2,500 spaces in short and long stay car parks. The multi-storey next to the Parishes has a glazed walkway leading straight to the shops and the cinema. Three town centre car parks have achieved the Park Mark Safer Parking Award meaning parking in Scunthorpe is safer than ever!

Scunthorpe videos.

Photos taken from around Scunthorpe.

Photos of Pubs around Scunthorpe.

Scunthorpe Steelworks Torpedo train.

Videos courtesy of Cappertain and Toontrain.

Introduction to Scunthorpe

Scunthorpe is a town within North Lincolnshire, England.

Residential population of approx 73, 000.
A predominantly industrial town, Scunthorpe, the United Kingdom's largest steel processing centre, is also known as the 'Industrial Garden Town'.

Scunthorpe shown within Lincolnshire

History of Scunthorpes iron ore.

Iron ore was first mined in the Scunthorpe area in July 1860. Owing to the lack of a mainline railway the ore was transferred to a wharf at Gunness (or Gunhouse), initially by cart then by a narrow gauge railway, for distribution by barge or mainline rail from Keadby.

Construction of Scunthorpe's first ironworks, the Trent Ironworks, began in 1862, with the first cast from the blast furnace being tapped on 26 March 1864. Other ironworks followed: building of the Frodingham Ironworks began in 1864; North Lincoln Ironworks in 1866; Redbourn Hill Iron & Coal Company in 1872; Appleby Ironworks blew in their first blast furnace in 1876; and the last constructed being John Lysaght's Iron and Steelworks in 1911, with production starting in 1912. Crude steel had been produced at Frodingham Ironworks in 1887 but this proved not to be viable. Maxmilian Mannaburg came to Frodingham Ironworks in 1889 to help build and run the steelmaking plant and on the night of 21 March 1890 the first steel was tapped.

Scunthorpe forms an unparished area in the borough and unitary authority of North Lincolnshire. The town forms six of the borough's seventeen wards, namely Ashby, Brumby, Crosby & Park, Frodingham, Kingsway with Lincoln Gardens and Town. The Scunthorpe wards elect 16 of the borough's 43 councillors. As of 2008, all are members of the Labour party. The councillors form the Charter Trustees of the Town of Scunthorpe and they continue to elect a town mayor.
North Lincolnshire Council is based in Pitwood House off Ashby Road (former A159) next to Festival Gardens. It opened in 1963 as the Civic Centre, and was the home of Scunthorpe Borough Council until 1996. It was named after Edwin Pittwood, a local Labour politician, who worked in the opencast ironstone workings near Normanby Park. There are also offices at Church Square House near the Scunthorpe Market

Coat of arms


When Scunthorpe was incorporated as a borough in 1936, it also received a grant of a coat of arms from the College of Arms (See image above). These arms were transferred to the new borough council formed in 1974 and are now used by the town's charter trustees.
The green shield and golden wheatsheaf recall that the area was until recently agricultural in nature. Across the centre of the shield is a length of chain. This refers to the five villages of Crosby, Scunthorpe, Frodingham, Brumby & Ashby linking together as one. At the top of the shield are two fossils of the species gryphoea incurva. These remains of oysters, known as the "devil's toenails", were found in the rock strata from which ironstone was quarried. The crest, on top of the helm, shows a blast furnace. This is also referred to in the Latin motto: "Refulget labores nostros coelo" or "The heavens reflect our labours" popularly attributed to the glow observed in the night sky from the steelmaking activities.