The latest issue of the Scunthorpe Telegraph's 36-page Nostalgia magazine went on sale from Thursday and includes FOUR feature articles on Brigg, and another relating to Castlethorpe.
The Brigg ones are about children's games, the cattle market, Brigg Town Band and notable town bowler hat wearers. Copies are now on sale for 75p.
As many will know, I still go back to the Scunthorpe Telegraph on a freelance basis to organise the content for Nostalgia. In addition to that I'm now working on the next edition of Motor Biking Bygones, coming out in mid-May. If you have any old motorcycling pictures, or memories, I'd love to include them in this special publication. Please email scoopfisher@aol.com or give me a ring on 01652 655134.
Brigg Brass Band originated in Wrawby.
ReplyDeleteRecord indicate that Wrawby Brass Band started up sometime in the 1850's.
Sometime later they regularly met in the Dying Gladiator. My assumption is that the band attracted players from the Brigg area and, perhaps at some point Brigg folk numbers grew and it became more convenient to meet in Brigg.
The band was still known as Wrawby Brass Band - eventually changing to Brigg Brass Band, I think, around the start of the C20th.
Wrawby Brass Band (Lincolnshire)
ReplyDeleteWrawby Brass Band appeared in 1875 under the direction of George Twigg. It had 12 players. How long it had existed before this is uncertain, but in 1874 the Instumental Music Society was mentioned as 'the only musical society in the town' and it seems likely that 1875 was when the Wrawby band was started. Before this there had been the 'excellent brass band recently formed by members of the Oddfellows and Foresters Societies'. The band was practising three evenings a week at the Gladiator in May 1862. By 1886 the Wrawby Brass Band was reported to have really improved during the previous couple of years. Took part in the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Brigg in 1897. In 1900 it held its 'annual supper' at the Gladiator, and it was then stated to have 30 members. In the obituary to Alfred John Tapling (1911) it states: "It is interesting to recount the fact that the late Mr Tapling was the founder of the Brigg Subscription Band, which up to recent years was known as the Wrawby Prize band." So, sometime between 1900 and 1911 it seems to have been renamed as Brigg Subscription Band.