u/BlackJackKetchum

Somewhere's going to win it, and I'd rather it was somewhere in Lincolnshire. FWIW, the Telegraph rated it 7th of the 15 contenders:

"Grimsby port, once the national centre for smoking cod and haddock, is now like an open-air museum. An area known as the Kasbah contains abandoned and just-about-surviving period buildings (some of them Grade II-listed) that used to house chandlers, rope works, banks, a post office, pubs and a butcher’s shop. The strip looks like a film set and is scheduled for regeneration and could serve as a compelling backdrop for edgy art. Lofty Grimsby Dock Tower is a hydraulic accumulator that looks like a Moroccan minaret – though it’s modelled on Siena’s Torre del Mangia.

Storytelling would be a big feature if Grimsby wins the next round; a key part of its bid was “Ambition”, a specially commissioned poem written by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage for Horizon Youth Zone. Speaking of stories, a Danish fisherman called Grim is said to have founded the town. Time Trap Museum is fun and Grimsby segues into Cleethorpes and the massive Immingham port facility, so you get urban and coastal, labour and leisure converging here".

Stage two (Boston, Skeggy) here...