WILD IDEA TO ADD COLOUR TO BRIGG

Here's just half of the extensive area of public open space running alongside York Road, Brigg. 

As you can see from the picture, the grass is well tended. But Brigg Blog wonders whether North Lincolnshire Council has ever thought about sewing wild flowers on a small section of  the York Road field.

This would add some colour to the street scene at this time of year and  give  Mother Nature a helping hand.

Some councils sew wild flowers on roundabouts and verges. We think the North Lincolnshire authority has done so  in Scunthorpe.

This Brigg area of public space was set aside many years ago as the site of the town's new primary school, to replace the one in Glebe Road. But Humberside County Council - then the education authority - never managed to get things off the ground before it was removed in 1996 through local government reorganisation.

North Lincolnshire Council took over and the new school eventually got the go-ahead, but was sited across town on Atherton Way. 

York Road's public open space is used for football kick-abouts by some youngsters and by animal exercisers clutching plastic clean-up bags they then deposit, on the walk home, in the doggie-do bin pictured left of centre in our picture!