Many members of the younger age group have no idea that Brigg once boasted an impressive stockmarket.
It was known locally as the cattle market, but sheep were also sold.
The location was between Cary Lane and Barnard Avenue - on land redeveloped in the late 1990s for the Tesco store.
The purpose-built stockmarket arrived on the scene in the 1960s during the reign of Brigg Urban District Council.
Here we see interior and exterior pictures of the facility in the middle of that decade.
After Brigg UDC was removed by local government reorganisation in 1974, Glanford Borough Council became the markets authority.
The original cattle market was behind the Woolpack pub.
ReplyDeleteSlum clearance in circa 1960 down Market Lane cleared the ground for a more extensive cattle market.
However, when I first came to Brigg in 1981, the activities of the cattle market was already in serious decline. I remember going inside the auction ring building in about 1983 to watch a small auction as it was a bit of a rare event.
About this time, the travelling community occasionally used the site to assemble and auction their horses.
For several years, the area was moribund...before Tesco purchased the site, some allegedly said for £1million.
Briggs markets were also located in Cary Lane, encroaching on a strip of labd that has also been encompassed into thd Tesco site.