Dating from the early 1970s, this picture shows three prominent buildings in Brigg that are now but memories. On the right is the imposing Riverside House, in the distance the old brewery, and on the right part of the Spring's jam factory complex. Double-click on the picture to take a closer look. Hopefully your software will offer an enlargement. We've just done so and spotted the former Carefields factory - the white building in the distance. And that's gone, too, making way for the new Lidl store now taking shape off Atherton Way. Note the trees overhanging the river in the foreground - all traces of which have also disappeared. You can still see the trunk of one of them sticking out the brickwork at the side of the Ancholme, close to the White Hart beer garden. We are now going to engage in a spot of nostalgia using our archives. Hope you find the posts that follow bringing back a few memories of how Brigg used to be.
I worked at Spring's Jam Factory over a summer holiday in 1960 - 12 hours a day Monday-Friday and 6 hours on a Saturday, which earned me four pounds a week. I had very little contact with the senior management there (who I think were the owners), but from the little I saw, they were incompetent, rude and arrogant. It is unsurprising that the company no longer exists.
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