FROM CLIFF TURNER IN NEW ZEALAND (FORMER BRIGG RESIDENT)
I have only recently discovered that Brigg's Corn Exchange has been
demolished. I "trod the boards" there on four occasions in the 1930s. I was an
Ugly Sister in Cinderella, the first show put on in Brigg by a very young Joan
Dodd (nee Lyon) in 1937 or 1938. My pal Billy Cade was the other Sister. Only
one performance was intended but so many people were turned away on the first
occasion that we did another performance later. We raised a useful sum for
Scunthorpe Hospital.
At
the Grammar School speech day in 1937 I was a carol singer in a short play put
on by Form 4a. The school magazine described the carol singers as being
"valiantly led by Turner".
At
about the same time the school entered a choir in the Brigg Musical Festival. We
were coached Mr Pratt and Mr "Tiger" Richardson. We had to sing two songs; one
was "The sky's a fairy field at night", the other was about pirates "Up with the
Jolly Roger, boys." Only two choirs competed; the other was from a girls' school
and we were not amused when the adjudicator said that the girls sang the pirate
song better than we did. Guess who won.
Is this gentleman related to Private Rose Turner, ATS - the only female on Brigg's war memorial?
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