BRIGG PEOPLE SUPPORT WRAWBY SHOW

 

Brigg people helped to swell the attendance at the Wrawby Horticultural Show on Sunday (August 11).
This was a real community event with volunteers coming together to stage a true village event to which admission cost the princely sum of 20p.
We spent an enjoyable hour at the Village Hall, including the obligatory refreshment stop - a cuppa and a tasty home-made cake for £1.50p which was very good value for money.
A tour of the exhibits, which by then had been judged, revealed some entries in the new home brewing section - bottles of wine being on show rather than ale.
It was good to see that many children had entered various classes, with the exception of the home brew, obviously!
In due course some of these youngsters may go on to help run the show in years to come.
We took a close look at the winning vegetables, which reminded us of covering numerous horticultural shows while working on the reporting staff of the Lincolnshire & South Humberside Times in the early 1980s.
Back then Coun Dick Long, who lived on Barton Road in Wrawby, won many prizes for his veg, and not just at Wrawby Horticultural Show.
The future Leader of Glanford Borough Council really knew his onions!
Brigg used to have its own show like this, held in the Corn Exchange, and there were many others reported by the Times in villages between here and Barton via the Low Villages.
If reporters were lucky, the show secretary allowed us to borrow the master sheet listing the results, to be typed up in the office at 57 Wrawby Street and then returned to him or her.
However, on some occasions such requests were denied and we had to drive over to the village venue and copy the results, class by class.
It was a very slow process, made more difficult by some of the handwriting.
First, second and third places were duly recorded in the following week's issue of the Lincs Times, accompanied by a picture or two from Coun Bryan Robins, the staff photographer.
Some green-fingered devotees finished in the top three at show after show as the summer progressed.
It was good to take a nostalgic trip down memory lane thanks to Wrawby, though on this occasion we decided to pass on taking down all the winners' names.
Sadly, we had to leave well ahead of the traditional auction of produce, which Jack Richards - long-serving Brigg cricketer and hockey player - reminded us was coming up.
This was the 77th annual show organised by the Wrawby Horticultural Society, and nearby Wrawby Mill held an open day to coincide with it.
Pictured above is Sean Turner, from Wrawby's Vicarage Motors, one of the volunteer helpers. Seeing Sean reminded us to book the next MoT.