Brigg Blog was extremely flattered to be asked by Brigg Town Council whether a picture we took in 2010 could be used as the image on the front of the official civic Christmas card 2012, signed by the Town Mayor and sent to various people on the official list.
We were delighted to grant permission in return for a photographer's credit on the back.
We've undertaken many varied journalistic tasks over the past 39 years, but Christmas card picture provider was something new.
The view was taken around 6pm on November 30, 2010. We'd just parked up in the snow near Spring's Parade and were heading for Bridge Street to get a takeaway from Simon Ho's China Royal.
As we entered the Market Place, this was the scene we encountered. The picture has a rather Victorian, even Dickensian,feel to it. Or at least what's been suggested to us. Make your own mind up.
The motorway had been closed as a result of the wintry weather, causing a huge snarl-up of traffic on the A18 through Brigg. As a result of the queues it took us an hour to cross Brigg, buy the food and return home.
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The common genre of Dickens's stories is that they contain white Christmases.
ReplyDeleteIt is thought that CD's experiences of the festive seasons during his formative years influenced his perception that it would probably snow about Christmas.
During his tender years, circa 1810, Britain was experiencing a decade of particularly cold winters - last experienced in the 1690's. Most of Dickens's Christmases at that time were white.....although, by comparison, only 6,or 7 were white Christmases since 1900.
Dickens's novels, combined with an American tale, from the mid 1800's, that Father Christmas rode in a sleigh, pulled by reindeer, both reinforced and epitomised the idea that the idealised Christmas was white....