[2] It was given the final approval on Friday 4 April 1975, to be built on 5 acres, in the Borough of Cleethorpes.

The construction company Taylor and Coulbeck Ltd went into liquidation in mid-January 1977.

It was hoped to open in September 1978, but construction was taking place.

[10][11] By 1983, the Labour county council was looking at a single sixth form college for Grimsby instead, sited at Grimsby Institute, with all sixth forms closing except Immingham.

The Conservative government education secretary refused this, as parents had told him that it would simply destroy good schools.

By late 1985 it was proposed to turn the Chelmsford School into a sixth form college.

The Conservative councillor Arthur Pollard was chairman of the education committee in 1985.

The Chelmsford school would close, and the site became the new sixth form college.

[14][15] Nearby Caistor Grammar School was also popular with Grimsby parents, for the sixth form.

Until 1996 it was administered by Humberside Education Committee, based in Beverley.

He had been caught out when police obtained a mailing list for child pornography video material.