It's hoped this unsightly "black stuff" in Wrawby Street and Brigg Market Place will soon be removed and proper paving re-instated. We took this picture this morning (Sunday) to flag up (pardon the pun) this issue still being unresolved.
At the June Brigg Town Council meeting, Chris Dyson, the former town councillor, took the trouble to attend and raised his concerns during Public Question Time.
North Lincolnshire Council, the body that oversees our streets, was represented at the meeting, which was told the paving would be replaced, although we can't recall a precise timescale being mentioned.
You may recall that utility work was undertaken in this part of the town centre, where the vast majority of paving was put back in neat and tidy fashion.
We took these pictures this morning (Sunday) as an aide memoire to those in charge, ahead of the Town Council's July meeting, when we hope to hear positive news.
Aide memoire? We've had a bit of Latin in Brigg Blog over the years, but precious little French. Vernon Atkin, Brigg Grammar's renowned modern language practitioner, would have been impressed that one of his least able French students mentioned un peu** of what he laboured so hard, and so long, to teach us.
Vernon loved his hockey with Brigg, and - late in life - came back to umpire some of our club's lower teams. He had been a much better player than those of us who hacked around in the 4ths and 5ths. Not that he ever mentioned it.
** Un peu - a little (if you haven't grasped the lingo).
