Penny Smith, Brigg town councillor, admiring a surviving copy of the very last issue of the Lincolnshire and South Humberside Times weekly newspaper, printed in July 1985. It's part of a FREE exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of the closure, being staged until September at the North Lincolnshire Museum, Oswald Road, Scunthorpe. There are lots of pictures from the past, plus old copies and items from the age of hot metal printing. Either side of a trip over to the exhibition, Times staff held a reunion at the Black Bull, Wrawby Street, where No 57 housed the editorial staff until closure. Among those returning was David Stephens, former editor, once of Bigby High Road, Brigg.
I think it was in the final copy of LSH Times that my daughter, then a pupil at SJN, had her story printed. She was tasked to write a WW2 story for homework and SJN submitted it to the Times.
ReplyDeleteAt that time, she was in the ?2nd year and her ambition then was to be a journalist!!
Both my son and daughter's photos appeared regularly in the paper...anything from school plsys, hockey and football teams.
Do you have a copy, Nige?..is it possible to check?