Tuesday, March 03, 2015

WALKING THE PLANK IN BRIGG


Nothing to do with pirates, but they are walking the plank in Brigg town centre. Workmen are using this wooden walkway and scaffolding above the Old River Ancholme to re-point the wall beside the White Hart pub beer garden (left of picture).
It's all part of a commitment to improve the look of the riverside - regarded by many as an under-utilised Brigg attraction.
The County Bridge railings have been improved, the ugly, rusting cast-iron water pipe on its side replaced and there are regularly litter removal and weed-cutting forays.
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2 comments:

  1. Ken Harrison3 March 2015 at 19:23

    Although 'walking the plank' has been popularised in modern day pirate folk-lore, the practice rarely happened...
    It's a bit like the idea of pirates burying their treasure - why?
    The notion that pirates hid their treasure in a chest in a big hole and draw treasure maps only emerged from the fictional novel, 'Treasure Island'...reality was different !!

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  2. Ken Harrison3 March 2015 at 19:29

    ......and if you think that the Victorians were gullible to believe such things.......how many of us believe that the EU has made a law about the bendiness of bananas?

    The EU has never made any laws concerning banana curvature......yet intelligent folk were talking about it on Radio 4 today as if it were a fact....

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