BRIGG COUNCILLOR ASKS: CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE LOCATION?

BY KEN HARRISON

Brigg Town Councillor Jane Kitching's  dad, Pearcy Kitching, served in the RAF and was based in Holland during the war's closing stages. While stationed in Holland, he was 'adopted' by the van Dam family, who shared their meagre rations with him.

After the war, Pearcy, a master grocer, managed a shop, specialising in cheeses, in Wrawby Street, but the wartime-formed friendship continued.  Pearcy would often send the van Dam family such items as bicycle tyres and other parts that were in desperately short supply in post-war Holland.

In addition, various members of the van Dam family would visit the Kitchings in Brigg until the early 1980s. On one occasion, Jane remembers one van Dam family group arriving unexpected after touring Scotland in their camper van and stayed with them for a number of days. Contact was lost after Jane's dad died in 1984, aged 78.

However, very recently, Jane has received communication with photographs from members of the extended family indicating that the older members of the van Dams, each of whom had special memories of Pearcy and their welcoming visits to Brigg,  had died.

The van Dam's daughter-in-law, Bep, wanted Jane to have photographs - the black and white one showing Pearcy Kitching visiting the van Dams in Holland in the 1970s...and another showing Jane's mum and dad, probably somewhere local, with the van Dam's son, Piet cica 1979/80.

This is the first time Jane has seen the photographs and would like to put the picture of the building with the arched facade in geographical context. Jane says that her parents did not have a car and it was probably taken during the time when van Dam family members visited them in Brigg in their camper van around 1980. As a group, it is suggested, that they went on a local excursion - a place of interest suggested by Jane's mum and dad.

It was initially thought that the photograph showed part of the courthouse in Lincoln Castle, but the courthouse does not have the windows, part of which appear in the picture.

Jane would be very grateful if someone could identify the photograph's specification location and  offers thanks in advance.' Email Brigg Blog - scoopfisher@aol.com - and we will pass on information to Coun Jane.