A Hostel A Week

One from the past, ramshackle affairs, and Woody’s Top Barn

The history of the early YHA is closely allied to local initiatives by Ramblers’ Associations based in individual towns or regions. Occasionally the activities were so localised as to not receive very much attention in the YHA’s own regional reports. This is especially true of developments in the 1930s in Lincolnshire.

The Grimsby Wayfarers’ Association was one such group. It seems to have been affiliated to the Lincolnshire Ramblers’ Federation and it was probably ahead of YHA in establishing simple accommodation in at least one bolt- hole in the Lincolnshire countryside for week-end cyclists and walkers.

When YHA was in its first phase of rapid and somewhat scattered development, the Grimsby outfit sought to integrate itself into the willing YHA and establish two or three adopted hostels jointly, though the arrangements are not always clear.

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