HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM BRIGG BLOG

All the very best to all our followers from Brigg Blog.
We will be in touch again next year!

NEW USE FOR BRIGG TINTABS ?

Brigg Tintabs - the public seating shelter near The Monument - is very close to the A18 and therefore thousands of motorists pass it by every day, plus many pedestrians heading to and from the town centre.
We are pretty sure North Lincolnshire Council would not permit commercial advertising in the Conservation Area, on the Tintabs, and we stress this picture is not what it seems. Brigg Garden Centre did not put the sign on the Tintabs. It had been fixed to a nearby lamp-post  to tell people that, while Lincolnshire County Council  roadworks were under way on Bigby High Road, the Garden Centre was still open for business. For several weeks after the roadworks finished, no-one came to take down the yellow sign and we can only assume it was dislodged by the high winds last week, someone saw it on the ground and propped it up on the seating at the Tintabs to stop it blowing onto the highway.

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BRIGG NEW YEAR DIARY DATES

LETTERS REMEMBER TOM'S TENURE AT BRIGG PUB

CALENDAR GIRLS' DISAPPEARING ACT IN BRIGG

It seems the Calendar Girls have been stripped of their prominence in Brigg.
There was a poster advertising their forthcoming shows, but it appeared to have disappeared this morning when we drove past the Brigg hand carwash, near The Monument.
The Calendar Girls’ will be appearing at Grimsby Auditorium next spring.
A few days ago - directly above the poster showing the lovely ladies in the buff, so to speak- was the car wash pledge:  “No brushes – no scratches.”
Good to know they go easy on the bodywork, ladies!
Those Brigg folk interested in finding out more about the production of Calendar Girls, which includes some well-known actresses, follow this link:
http://www.atgtickets.com/Calendar-Girls-Tickets/183/222/

Perhaps we will spot other posters about Brigg advertising the Calendar Girls.








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BRIGG TOWN CENTRE TRAFFIC SCRUTINY IN NEW YEAR

Brigg Town Council put on hold until the New Year its plans to consider the effectiveness of the Traffic Regulation Order in the town centre.
That was because Coun Julian Kidd (pictured), who was keen to see the issue discussed, was unable to make the pre-Christmas meeting.
So it will now be the New Year before councillors “consider the terms of the existing Traffic Regulation Order and whether it is sufficiently robust to protect pedestrians in the pedestrianised area.”
Most Brigg Blog followers will be aware of widespread concern about the number of vehicles – cars, vans and lorries – encountered within what is supposed to be a traffic-free area, except for permitted deliveries/loading to premises without vehicular access (if we understand the restrictions correctly).
The issue has been raised on a number of occasions in the past with the police and North Lincolnshire Council.





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SEASONAL GREETINGS TO BRIGG BLOG FOLLOWERS

Brigg Blog sends its very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to all our followers across the town, in the Brigg area, throughout North Lincolnshire, elsewhere in the British Isles, over in the United States (where we enjoy a considerable viewing public)...and in other parts of the world. During the past month, the third highest-ranked country, in terms of visits to Brigg Blog, has been Russia, with Germany and France fourth and fifth, respectively. Next come The Netherlands, followed by Romania (seventh) and South Korea (eighth). Completing Brigg Blogs's current Top 10 are The Ukraine and Canada.
While we are celebrating Christmas and New Year with family and friends, let's spare a thought for the people in Brigg who undertake essential work, for whom it must be "business as usual" on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
They include the police, fire and ambulance services, care/residential home workers and last, but not least, those in pubs and other outlets serving up the festive fare and dispensing the drinks for the many who choose to eat out at Christmas.

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE TO BRIGG BLOG FOLLOWERS

Kindly contributed by Coun The Rev Alec Depledge, Town Mayor's Chaplain (and keen Brigg Town FC supporter)

It’s a glorious time in our calendar – reflecting an event that changed the course of world history – the birth of Jesus. An appropriate season for believers to re-affirm their faith – and when those not yet convinced often decide to ‘look into it’.
Here’s a ‘personal’ creed – you may like to ‘adopt’ it this Christmas-time: 

FOLLOW THE LINK TO READ ALEC'S MESSAGE
http://stryka66.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/my-christmas-creed/

PLEDGE YOUR ALLEGIANCE TO BRIGG’S DIAMOND JUBILEE EFFORT

NAUTICAL NICETIES IN BRIGG

BRIGG TOWN MAYORS 1974-2011

HOPING TO BREAK THE ICE WITH UNUSUAL BRIGG PICTURES

BRIGG CHRISTMAS FARMERS' MARKET

BRIGG YOUNGSTERS SAY "WII" KNOW HOW TO ENJOY OURSELVES

FORMER BRIGG WOMAN DIES, AGED 101

One of the oldest former residents of Brigg has died, aged 101.
Gwen Jarvis was the widow of Geoff "Shoddy" Jarvis – long-serving geography master at Brigg Grammar School.
The funeral service will be at 10am on Friday, December 23 at St Chad’s, Shrewsbury.
Donations in lieu of flowers if desired to AgeConcern, Mardol Gardens, Shrewsbury, or St Chad’s Campaign. Enquiries can be made to Pughs, 01743-344646.




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BRIGG BINS AWAIT WINTER'S WORST

BRIGG DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS UPDATE

One of the most talked about problems in Brigg will be talked about tomorrow night by town councillors.
We refer, of course, to the pedestrian area that often does not seem to be a pedestrian area – given the number of vehicles to be encountered in Wrawby Street, the Market Place and the top end of Cary Lane.
Brigg Town Council’s planning and environment committee – meeting tomorrow night at the Angel Suite from 6.45pm – has the following item listed for discussion.
TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDER – BRIGG TOWN CENTRE
To consider the terms of the existing Traffic Regulation Order and whether it is sufficiently robust to protect pedestrians in the pedestrianised area.
Members of the public are very welcome to go along and listed to the committee’s deliberations.
They can also stay on for the monthly meeting of Brigg Town Council, which will follow at 7.30pm.
As usual, 15 minutes will be set aside at the beginning of this meeting for Public Question Time – if anyone wishes to raise items of interest to them.
The agenda items include:
H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH – DIAMOND JUBILEE
a) To Consider the cost and determine whether the Town Council should erect bunting throughout the Town.
b) To note that Lincsquad have moved the date of the Adventure Challenge to Sunday 3rd June 2012.
c) To consider: Further suggestions for events to mark the Diamond Jubilee, and determine how they will be delivered; associated budgetary requirements.

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BODYWORKS ESTABLISHED IN BRIGG

BY RICK WILSON

Bodyworks gymnasium is one of the latest businesses to have opened its doors in Brigg and started to trade in July, offering the people of Brigg the opportunity to improve their fitness by the use of its modern Cardio room and to enjoy the benefits of training in the more traditional manor, within the well-equipped weights room.
The Gym is the creation of Mrs Lisa Wilson and her husband Rick Wilson who decided after a lot of research and talking to people that the traditional style of gym which is still favoured by bodybuilders and power lifters was the one facility that Brigg had been without and offers more scope to those who want to compete or sculpture their bodies.
Rick said: “Over recent years the trend has moved to large corporate style gyms that use a multitude of cable resistance, and machine based resistance equipment.
“Whilst the move to these super gyms has opened the sport to more people it has also had a detrimental effect to the more traditional style of gym, in that these big ventures had the resources to invest large amounts of capital into their infrastructure, which in turn attracted customers but then many of them tied their customers into long term expensive contracts.
“For the last 25 years I had wanted to open a gym in this area, and many may think that our timing is misplaced with the world in recession, and things been as tough as they are, but that is exactly the reason that I decided now was the right time.
“It’s my honest belief that people are turning away from the big glitzy super gyms in an effort to save money and are returning to the more focused smaller gyms.
“We believed we could offer a half way solution by giving our customers a well appointed gym and cardio room and creating an atmosphere that was removed from the old style, traditional male orientated spit and sawdust gyms, and create an atmosphere which would attract both sexes, we believe we have achieved this with Bodyworks, at a price that is affordable even in time of recession”
Bodyworks have seen a steady rise in its membership base and Lisa Wilson believes this is because of the flexible membership that they offer.
Our membership package is so simple, you can turn up complete a safety induction (free of charge) and then pay a day rate of £3.75 and train, or you can take advantage of the £25.00 per month charge which runs from the day you take it out to the same day the next month.”
Bodyworks also operate a block session purchase and offer 10% discount to all service personnel and students upon production of a valid identity card, and also give loyalty bonuses to their existing members, in the form of cash off their next months membership for the introduction of members who join on a monthly basis.
Rick and Lisa have also looked to taking the business in different directions in order to strengthen their dream.
They say: “We know that we have built a decent facility but we also know that we cannot be experts in all areas of fitness, with this in mind we have formed associations with suppliers and in particular with NJ Fitness, who through our business association can deliver Sport and Holistic massage and sporting rehabilitation at the gym. They are also offering other services such as personal training and advice about nutrition this is a service which is proving to be very popular.”
Bodyworks is also able to supply a range of all major brand supplements at very competitive prices and believe that the diversity of the business is what will make it stronger.
For all of their latest offers visit their site on Brigg People - http://www.briggpeople.co.uk/sport-and-leisure/bodyworks/business-13004844-detail/business.html - or their website on www.brigggym.co.uk
Bodyworks are located in unit 27/29 Island Carr Road, Brigg. DN20 8PD
Opening hours:
Mon – Fri 10am till 8pm
Sat – 10am till 4pm

BRIGG JOB FOR SOMEONE

BRIGG BLOG SENDS GREETINGS TO THE PHILIPPINES

Brigg Blog has enjoyed visits from people living as far away as The Philippines, South Korea and Australia during the past month.
The UK and the US provide most of our visitors, as you'd expect.
Next - based on the past month's hits - come The Netherlands, followed by Russia, Germany, France, South Korea, Australia, Vietnam and The Philippines.
Google - kind hosts of Brigg Blog - provide up-to-the-minute "stats" at any time we request them.
The clever software lists the Top 10; there have been visitors from countries other than those.




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GET YOUR BRIGG CHRISTMAS BUTTIES

These tasty Christmas offerings are again on sale at the Deli Diner in Wrawby Street, Brigg.




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BRIGG SIGN REFUSED CONSENT

A Brigg town centre application for permission made to North Lincolnshire Council’s planning department has been refused. It was for advertisement consent to retain an internally illuminated fascia sign at Capri Pizza House, 45 Wrawby Street.
But alterations to a Brigg town centre listed building have been approved by North Lincolnshire Council planners.Listed building consent has been granted to partly demolish a wall between the kitchen and the utility room at 18 Bigby Street.
Advertisement consent to display a non-illuminated fascia and hanging sign at 9 Market Place is NOW being sought by Barclays.




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BRIGG MUSIC CLUB CHRISTMAS PARTY AT 'THE BRIT'

FULL TRIBUTE TO BRIGG EDUCATIONALIST ROY O'NEILL

Here's David Brittain's full tribute to Roy O'Neill - delivered at St John's Church, Brigg, during the thanksgiving service held in memory of the former chairman of governors at Sir John Nelthorpe School and ex-president of the Briggensians' Association.
Brigg Blog extends its thanks to David, retired Headteacher of SJN, for permission to reproduce his tribute for the benefit of those unable to make the service last Friday afternoon.

ROY O'NEILL

I would like to tell you about Roy’s contribution to the education of local children and students.
His love of and appreciation for Brigg Grammar School and the Sir John Nelthorpe School remained steadfast for 75 years and he dedicated almost unbroken service in its management over those years.
His like will not be seen again.
Roy started his senior school life as a fee-paying Prep-School boy in 1936 under Headmaster J T Daughton before passing the entrance exams and becoming a Brigg Grammar School boy in 1938.
I’m not sure what sort of special courses Roy studied but Cliff Padley tells me that each week he used to buy a copy of Hansard from Jack Clark’s newsagents opposite the Grammar School ~ that’s decidedly not school boy top shelf material and of little value as a conversation piece with the ladies!
If Roy was to read the lesson in school assembly in the original schoolroom, JT would say on his arrival, “Right we can begin now that father O’Neill has arrived”. Surely a mark of affection.
Roy was an accomplished sportsman as well as a fine academic student.
The Briggensian Magazine from the year he left in 1945/6 records him taking part in a Past vs. Present athletics meeting:
I quote:
“The meeting opened with the 100 yards sprint. TRD O’Neill was first with Harrington hot on his heels. Time 11.1 seconds.”
…….. and later in the same report: “ There was a surprise result in the long jump when TRD O’Neill beat his brother into 1st place by starting with an opening jump of 18ft 9ins.”
After completing school and his exams Roy was commissioned into the Navy from 1946 to 1948, but returned to Brigg to train and work as a Chartered Accountant; he then become Clerk to the Governors in 1959.
Roy was Foundation Clerk under Col. Roger Nelthorpe and his father Oliver Nelthorpe and his knowledge of the school’s Foundation Trust matters was quite unrivalled.
For those not familiar with this concept: the Nelthorpe Trust was the original mechanism by which money was managed to support a ‘free school’ for all children in Brigg, you could say it was a very early Comprehensive School.
Tenant farms and land had been provided as a bequest from Sir John Nelthorpe when he died in 1669. The income gained from land-rents was used to build the school and to pay the masters.
Over the years the Trust adjusted its focus to move from providing tools for apprentices to more modern needs in support for those students who required help beyond that which the Local Education Authority would provide.
Getting some requests past Roy’s regulatory eye was quite a challenge.
Roy O’Neill knew all the regulations and had guided Heads through their complexities for decades and continued to do so right until his passing.
In 1977 Roy was appointed a full Trust governor and I remember him saying, at the start of a trust meeting in 2000 when I had just announced the death of Col. Nelthorpe, that being Chairman was ‘a job for life’.
He was subsequently appointed Chairman and has fulfilled his own prophesy.
Roy was a lifelong member of the original Old Boys’ Association and, as President of the expanded and renamed Briggensian Association; he has moulded and guided it to develop into the organisation many hold dear today. He carried on the ethos and tradition laid down by the Nelthorpes; what an apprenticeship that was!
Roy cared about the association and believed strongly in its value.
Many Briggensians have emailed from around the world to pay tribute to their President Roy and comment that ‘he had the school in his blood’.
Financial devolution brought changes and altered responsibilities placed on the school, governors and the trustees. The school property and land is owned by the trust but dedicated for educational purposes. Who knew the intricacies of these responsibilities better than Roy O’Neill, nobody.
T R D O’Neill also became a Sir John Nelthorpe School governor and when the health of Colonel Roger Nelthorpe deteriorated he was appointed Chairman in 1993.
I know he regarded this as a great honour to lead a prestigious school steeped in history
and he became the first non Sutton-Nelthorpe to hold that position in the past 340 years.
This was a mark of the esteem in which Roy was held.
I served under Roy O’Neill’s Chairmanship for many years. You wanted to work for him and there could not be a more dedicated servant of the school, its students and staff than him; he gave unstintingly of his time and energy regardless of his many other commitments and latterly his deteriorating health.
He certainly didn’t shrink from his duty to challenge the Local Education Authority when they neglected the school that he believed was one of their greatest assets or forgot that we were a Voluntary Controlled School and had a grade 1 listed building to manage.
He was a hoarder of documents, letters, notes and governors’ papers -  he could have started his own archive - but all were valuable references for Roy. I’m not certain his wife, Margaret, always saw it that way as the piles of folders and trunks of papers grew ever higher and invaded their home and garage.
I personally came under the close scrutiny of ‘Roy’s lens’ and you needed to deliver on time, have high expectations and keep the accounts straight, to the last penny.
However, he always gave you space in which to manage, trust and great support when needed.
The role of governor and particularly Chair carries a vast workload and onerous responsibility and he had my utmost respect for the care and consideration he brought to that role and for the quality of decisions that he made.
As I said at the beginning, the like of Roy O’Neill will not be seen again.
Long may he watch over us.

THE ANGEL SUITE'S VALUE TO BRIGG

It would cost Brigg Town Council more than £9,000 a year to operate the Angel Suite purely as an office base and the authority’s meeting venue, councillors have been told.
The Town Council hires out the Suite to organisations, groups, companies and individuals for a wide range of events, including wedding receptions, Christenings, carpet bowls sessions, coffee mornings, exhibitions, meetings and craft fairs.
The council also holds all its own meetings in the Angel – the main “upstairs” room and the Lounge – and there is office accommodation for the authority’s small staff.
Over many years, the cost of operating the Angel Suite has often been discussed by councillors, with determined efforts being made to increase lettings to outside organisations, in an effort to generate additional income.
At the latest meeting of the Property and Services Committee, Town Clerk Jeanette Woollard provided the £9,000 figure to show how much the Angel Suite would cost the Town Council, even if no lettings were made to the public.
It was also revealed that the Town Council currently charges itself, in the accounts, around £3,000 a year for use of the Angel, while the income from lettings to outside organisations generates income of about £25,000.
An interesting debate developed.
Coun Ann Eardley suggested if the Town Council tried to find an alternative “outside” venue, that would cost a lot more than the Angel.
She forecast that when North Lincolnshire Council eventually relocated Brigg Library to the front of the Angel building, off the Market Place, it would result in more people visiting the adjoining Angel Suite.
Coun Chris Dyson was keen to know the level of bookings for the venue. Was the take-up 50 per cent or three-quarters?
He inquired: “Have we got a target?”
The Town Clerk described the level of bookings as “variable” but “nowhere near 100 per cent.”
Coun Dyson said that, in business, annual targets were set.
The Town Clerk replied: “We are running a community facility.”
Coun Jackie Brock, a long-serving councillor, looked back at the history of the Angel Suite.
She said when another authority had decided to demolish the old Corn Exchange, the town of Brigg had been offered the chance to take on the Angel Suite as a replacement community venue.
Efforts had been made to get a committee of Brigg people to run the facility, but due to insufficient interest, it had been taken on by the Town Council “by default.”
Following a rigorous review of hire charges a year ago, the income generated from lettings is now covering the cost of this aspect of the building’s use - to provide a community venue for Brigg.
The figure of £9,000 is a baseline figure for maintenance/heat/water/light/and the general running costs associated with a building of this size as council offices and meeting rooms. It does not include staff administration costs.
Therefore, the financial burden on the cost of managing the Angel Suite is its use as the Town Council ' Head Office' (for want of a better title), not its use as a community facility.

BIT OF CHRISTMAS CHAIR IN BRIGG

Further to Brigg Blog's earlier posting about the trolley uncovered during low water in the River Ancholme, it was still there beside the County Bridge yesterday (Sunday) but has  now been joined by some road cones (presumably  the property of North Lincolnshire Council, the highway authority).
On the other side of the listed structure, three red chairs had surfaced, close to the Nelthorpe Arms beer garden.
Will these items be removed or just left there to be submerged again once the river level is restored?



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