The main story on Tuesday's Brigg Extra page in the Scunthorpe Telegraph - about the need to clean up and repair The Monument - has brought interesting information from Charles Anderson, Lincolnshire co-ordinator with the United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials.
During the Brigg council meeting when the subject was discussed, it was suggested The Monument had been paid for by public subscription, just after the First World War.
However, Charles quotes from a report in the Lincolnshire Star of June 21, 1919 which reported: "Sunday will rank as one of the greatest historic days of Brigg, being comparable with the conclusion of the greatest war in national history. It was a great day, because it saw the consummation of the magnanimity of spirit of Mr. H. Stamp, J.P., C.C., who privately had erected a monument to 102 fallen men of our town in the Great War."
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