Many new trees have been planted on The Paddock near Brigg railway station.
They refer to this green oasis in official circles as a Village Green - though we feel that's an inaccurate description to use in a market town.
Brigg Blog saw an online message which made reference to hundreds of new trees being planted by volunteers so we nipped out to take a look and were staggered by what we found.
North Lincolnshire Council has been involved in getting the Green project off the ground and the volunteer group is clearly not resting on its laurels, if you will pardon the pun!
Legislation was passed some years ago to encourage the creation of Village Greens, even in urban areas.
Read more about the Brigg area by visiting www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/Brigg
Now for something completely different - but you did mention 'Green' and 'Railway' ....and posed the question how 'Village' could relate to a town, Old Nige.....
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, for what it's worth, a William Stroudley, an important engineers and steam-engine designer in the late Victorian times decided to paint his engines GREEN....and they ran on the London - Brighton Line....
In fact, the GREEN colour was called Stroudley's Improved Green - and Stroudley was very pround of his brightly coloured GREEN engines.
BUT....old William Stroudley was colour blind and his GREEN colour was actually a brown tan, or ochre colour - but no-one dare tell WS that his GREEN was really a light brown - so everyone played along with Willy Stroudley's assumption that his marvellous engines were GREEN.
For info, there's one of WS's engines in the National Railway Museum at York.
'Boxhill' is one of WS's engineering master-pieces and it stands on the rails in its Stroudley's Improved Green livery - which, by now, we should know is BROWN!!!!!
.....sorry about diverting your comments on a totally unrelated destination, Nige..some may think that I've gone off the rails...but like the little trees that have been planted, please accept my comments as a few branch lines.....and we'll now leave it resting at the buffers
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