Anyone remember gardening lessons at Brigg County Primary School, on Glebe Road, back in the late 1960s? They were overseen by headmaster Reg Stocks (pictured), of whom most pupils were in awe.
For a few pence you could take home some of the produce, such as rhubarb, roughly wrapped in newspaper.
The garden was on the Grammar School Road side of the school (where the swimming bath was built) and was presumably a throwback to the Dig For Victory days of the Second World War.
And what rekindled these distant memories? Simply walking past the now demolished school the othe day and seeing how the site is rapidly returning to nature.
All those weeds would have given Reg Stocks a fit!
I remember digging potatoes in the garden and the odd smaller ones finding their way onto the heads of learner swimmers in the adjacent outdoor swimming pool.
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