Brigg Town Council is to spend £3,800 on improvements to the Monument war memorial. This step was agreed by the Property and Services Committee at its latest meeting in the Angel Suite. Some of the lettering showing the names of those Brigg men who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country is hard to read at present, and this problem will be attended to as part of the repair work.
The Town Council is pressing ahead without a grant from the War Memorials Trust, whose varying requirements for carrying out the work did not fit in with the way the council wished to proceed. The meeting heard the proposed pressure-washing would have entailed a full road closure of the A18, costing "thousands." A survey of the structure was also required.
There was not a significant difference in cost between the Town Council funding the work or the council getting a grant but doing the scheme in a way which involved the expensive road closure and the survey.
The Town Council has funds set aside in its community projects budget, it being many years since significant repair work was undertaken at the Monument.
Coun Mike Galvin (pictured) felt it was money well spent - and a good price for the job.
No date has yet been announced for carrying out the work.
If you become a Town Councillor, it gradually makes you look like a passport photograph!
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