BRIGG BASH TALK ON THE OLD LINCOLNSHIRE TIMES

We were flattered to be sounded out about delivering a talk to Brigg Amateur Social Historians.
The programme has yet to be finalised but we will be very happy to fill the slot for February 2016.
We gave a BASH talk about The History of the Lincolnshire Times weekly newspaper some years ago at the Servicemen's Club. But since then we have acquired a good deal more information to share. 
So February's won't be a repeat of the previous talk, just in case people were wondering. 
This one will be more picture-led, now that technology has moved on!
The Lincolnshire Times, which published from 1857 to 1985, had an office at 57 Wrawby Street, Brigg - now the location of the computer business and next to the archway which leads through to the Exchange Coach House Inn.
Bryan Robins was the staff photographer and a long-serving town councillor. He was one of those presented to The Queen when she visited Brigg in 1977. This took place on the Recreation Ground, where a pageant was presented.
The Lincs Times' most famous writer was the long-serving Edward (Ted) Dodd, who lived in St Helen's Road.
BASH was originally based at the White Horse and we gave a talk there, soon after the group launched, on The Railways of North Lincolnshire. Later, but still at the White Horse, we were involved in another presentation about Pingley Camp.
We can't recall giving a BASH talk at the Ancholme Inn, but we may have done - possibly on the History of the Scunthorpe Telegraph. 
We certainly attended the Ancholme to enjoy a BASH presentation by book author and retired Grimsby Telegraph assistant editor Pat Otter, who talked about WW2 RAF bombers and local airfields.