This colourful ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 21.
Two communal water pumps have survived - beside the County Bridge and close to the Nelthorpe Arms pub (top picture) and on Grammar School Road South at the side of Wetherspoon's White Horse pub (pictured below).
Saturday's event starts at 10am. The Pump Blessing Parade will begin at 11.30am from the Bandstand, in the Market Place.
The pumps are a throwback to the time when few homes in the town centre had piped supplies of their own and had to take buckets or pans to collect the day's requirement.
Free parking applies in Brigg on Saturday - and there's no need to get a ticket and display it on your car.
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The far biggest factor that has affected our life survival chances over the decades...are not the advancement in cancer treatment- vaccines- cures for TB..etc.,but the simple improvements in public health - sewers - fresh water - hygiene.
Just over 100 years ago, 50 percent of kids died b4 the age of 5/6.
The hygiene stars on shop doors are part is part of public health..so don't ignore them as insignificant...they didn't have the checks 100 plus years ago and many died young...and others failed to reach their 30th....
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