Tuesday, August 30, 2016

SAD THAT IT'S A CASE OF NO SHOW IN BRIGG

Brigg Blog has received a Tweet from Messingham to tells us that its Horticultural Show will be held in the Village Hall on Saturday (September 3).
We also saw a poster in  Brigg town centre  recently publicising Barnetby Horticultural Show.
Sadly, Brigg's  finished some years ago.
Perhaps you remember paying a visit to the Corn Exchange, when that was the venue, to look at all the lovely produce laid out ready for the judges' inspection.
Full winners of all cups and classes were faithfully recorded in the Lincolnshire Times weekly paper, as a matter of record.
Not that the reporting staff particularly enjoyed loading up their typewriters with sheet after sheet of paper to input the data - long before computers came on the scene.
The other issue was  the same few leading growers winning time and again at a number of local shows within the space of a few weeks.
Among them was Councillor Dick Long, from Wrawby, who rose to become leader of Brigg-based Glanford Borough Council. Dick knew his onions!


1 comment:

Unknown said...

I've asked that question to brigg's horticultural society why there was no longer a show,answer needs someone to organise one.