BRIGG IS PART OF A VERY SMALL WORLD

Former Brigg resident Cliff Turner, 91, emailed this picture to us from his home in New Zealand.
Brigg Blog followers may remember Gerhard Moerbe, from Scawby, who came to Brigg during the war as a PoW and stayed on.
He married Joan Allbones, who is on his right of the picture which was taken in the house of daughter Marlene in Cambridge, New Zealand; she is on Cliff Turner's left.  Cliff's wife Nancy is also in the group.
Marlene and husband John ran a successful cafe in Cambridge.
Brigg Blog recently finished serialising Cliff's memories of growing up in Brigg during the 1930s and 1940s, which were well received.
We remember a fascinating and enjoyable evening some years ago at the White Horse pub, in Brigg (pre-Wetherspoon's), when Gerhard looked back on his time at Pingley Camp.
This formed the centre-piece of a Brigg Amateur Social Historians monthly meeting which was took the form of a question-and-answer session, with a good deal of valued input from the audience. 
People who had lived in the camp after the war, while it was used as accommodation for farm workers, also attended.