BRIGG BOOST FROM ANCHOLME ROWING CLUB

As we write this late on Sunday morning (October 14) the Ancholme Head rowing race is under way on the Ancholme between Broughton Bridge and Brigg.
Scores of rowers have come to town from a wide area of the North and Midlands, plus Lincolnshire clubs as far south as Boston.
It's all centred on the rowing club's HQ in Manley Gardens, off Bridge Street.
They seemed to be doing a pretty good trade in soup and rolls down at Dunham's bakery when we popped in earlier. For all the visiting crews and spectators will need to be fed and watered while they enjoy their day's sport in Brigg.
Doubtless the pubs closest to the finish of the race will also be enjoying added trade later as the rowers look to put back lost fluid in the traditional manner.
Brigg Blog's friend Ken Harrison has often suggested that Brigg, as a town, does not always make the best use of visitor events.
Perhaps a few A-boards located (temporarily) in Manley Gardens and Bridge Street to alert visitors to our attractions might have paid off this morning. We are thinking, particularly, of the new Heritage Centre.
By the time the 2013 Ancholme Head race comes round next October, the centrepiece prehistoric Brigg Raft will be housed in the Angel's Heritage Centre and you'd think that many rowing types would be interested in seeing that on display. If, of course, someone goes to the trouble of telling them it's there.
Would it be worth asking Ancholme Rowing Club for permission to put up a board near the clubhouse advertising the Heritage Centre and/or handing out some printed sheets to visitors who have come to town for the race?
First crews taking part in the Ancholme Head are expected to be passing under the County Bridge from noon today.
WATCH OUT LATER FOR MORE DETAILS, AND PIX, FROM TODAY'S RACE on www.briggpeople.co.uk