GUIDE TO HOW BRIGG PUBS COULD ATTRACT MORE TRADE

 

A handy-sized printed leaflet, with web version posted online, would help attract more visitors from outside Brigg to our wide range of pubs.
Other Brigg businesses could then benefit from increased footfall.
From places like Sheffield, North Nottinghamshire, Grimsby and Cleethorpes on Saturdays,  with passenger trains running along the Brigg Line, there is great potential to draw in real ale fans (men and women),  plus those who are enthusiastic about other tipples or who want to eat out in interesting surroundings.
People living in other parts of North Lincolnshire can take advantage of the Hornsby (and other)  buses serving Brigg or summon the new Call Connect transport system.
The colourful leaflet we are suggesting would give details of what the pub offers in terms of drinks, facilities, food, location and history.
Each entry would have postcode, Twitter, Facebook, email and website details.
The online version of the guide needs hyperlinks to direct interested people to the pub's online entries to learn more about what's on offer.

BRIGG OUTLETS FOR INCLUSION
Bridge Street: Yarborough Hunt, Nelthorpe Arms (Scanlon's), White Hart.
Market Place: Woolpack, Lord Nelson.
Bigby Street: Dying Gladiator
Wrawby Street: White Horse (Wetherspoon's), Dexters, Exchange Coach House, Britannia.
Licensed member clubs: Brigg Servicemen's, Coney Court; Brigg Town FC, The Hawthorns,  Wrawby Road. 
Perhaps the King William IV at Scawby Brook, Arties Mill at Castlethorpe and Wrawby's Jolly Miller and Black Horse could be included, making it a Guide to Brigg Area Pubs. All four hostelries are on, or near, existing bus routes from Brigg.
Would any group/council/organisation be interested in producing and marketing such a pub guide? Maybe the Business Partnership would get involved, together with pub owners and operators.
Let's consider how many more passengers are using the Brigg Line since the local campaigning group came onboard and started to leaflet the advantages of taking the train.
Our many and varied pubs can prove a draw just on their own. But we need to spread the word far and wide.
In terms of historic interest, the Dying Gladiator is the only pub of that name in the UK, while past guests of the Exchange include Winston Churchill when he was Prime Minister during the Second World War.
The above picture shows a relaxing scene in the beer garden of the White Hart pub, Brigg, beside the Old River Ancholme. Below: The beer garden at the Yarborough Hunt.