BRIGG TO MARK DIAMOND JUBILEE IN STYLE

Brigg is gearing up to celebrate the current Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in style next year.
Our community won’t exactly be rolling out the red carpet, but there will be bunting and flags. For shopkeepers are already showing an interest in decorating their premises in 2012 as their predecessors did in 1897 to mark Queen Victoria’s 60 years on the throne.
Coun Jane Kitching (pictured left) told Brigg Town Council’s monthly meeting in the Angel Suite that Brigg Amateur Social Historians were already supporting the idea and had access to photos showing decorated shops during the late Victorian era celebrations.
The information came to light after Coun Sheila Boughey (pictured below) suggested: “Brigg Town Council should initiate discussions with the community with regard to the organisation of events to celebrate Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee in June 2012, and determine how this can best be achieved.”
Town Clerk Jeanette Woollard said she understood Brigg District Lions were looking to repeat this June’s successful Brigg Festival at a similar time next year.
Coun Boughey welcomed that news and said it would be beneficial to work with the Lions.
Coun Rob Waltham recalled how Brigg Recreation Ground had been visited by Her Majesty as part of her Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977, when Coun Bryan Robins, as Brigg Town Mayor, was presented to her.
Welcoming the planned 2012 celebrations as a cracking idea, Coun Waltham said: “We should do whatever we can to support it.”
It was agreed that a small group of town councillors, including Coun Boughey, should liaise with the Lions about next year’s celebrations.