Monday, April 04, 2016

HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL FOR LANDMARK BRIGG SIGN



This surviving piece of Brigg history has seen a few changes in its time, and is about to see another.
It once sat proudly on the top of the renowned Spring’s jam factory, which closed in the late 1970s.
The emblem was then incorporated into the William Jackson (Grandways)  store which was erected on part of the site during the early 1980s.
It passed to Safeway, then Lidl, was bought by Tesco and will soon become a B&M Bargain Madness store.
The sign is incorporated within the side wall of the store, alongside the Old River Ancholme towpath.
Well worth inclusion in any future Brigg History Walks, we reckon.

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  1. Ken Harrison6 April 2016 at 05:10

    Brigg has more history than the Spring's plaque, Nige....but there's no plaque for....
    1. The site of the Brigg Logboat find.
    2. The site of the Brigg 'raft' ..plank boat.
    3. The local connection to the Lloyd's bank building to the Gunpowder Plot.
    4.The site of the Royalist entrenchments behind Wrawby St.
    5. The Roundhead/Royalist skirmish in the Market Place.
    6. The general site of the known, but essentially uninvestigated Bronze Age plankway.
    7. Etc

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