For many decades, anglers from industrial areas of Yorkshire came in large numbers to Brigg - by train - to enjoy fishing the River Ancholme. They even ran special cheap day excursions.
Some hotels in town specialised in accommodating other piscatorial pleasure seekers who stayed over for a number of days.
Could there be a chance that North Lincolnshire Council and Brigg traders (through their new go-ahead partnership) might get together and try to re-establish this once lucrative trade? If only on a smaller scale (pardon the pun!)
The Victorians and Edwardians did not have the marketing advances afforded by the internet. But the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and the Great Central had enough about them to publicise Brigg as the fisherman's friend by using only posters, letters and handbills (assisted by word of mouth between happy anglers).
The River Ancholme still offers good sport. And although Brigg now has passenger trains only on Saturday (running out of Sheffield Midland) Yorkshire fishermen can get over here very rapidly along the motorway network.
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