They're not looking to discover oil or gas under Pier Gardens, but who knows what might be revealed?

 

Technicians from Coventry-based firm Geotechnics have today begun exploring what lies below the Pier Gardens on Cleethorpes seafront. They don't expect their drills to find oil or gas, but could there be artefacts of historical interest - perhaps a settlement dating from prehistory? Or will their investigations just reveal the mundane - an electricity cable here or a sewer pipe there? The project is underway ahead of North East Lincolnshire Council's scheme to re-model the long-established gardens into an area of recreation including a skateboard park.