BRIGG BLOG'S PUB QUIZ - APRIL 2020

Due to the Coronavirus emergency we can't visit Brigg pubs at present, never mind take part in any of their quizzes.
So Brigg Blog today offers one of its own about local licensed premises to help fill the gap. See how you get on, then scroll down below the questions to check your answers.
If you have read our recently-posted Timeline it will help.
HINT: All Brigg's current hostelries feature, plus some that have been demolished or turned over to other uses.
If this quiz proves popular, we will post another on a different Brigg topic in the near future so you can again put your local knowledge to the test.

1. The owners of which Brigg pub went on to 'Fish' for compliments by launching their own licensed eatery on the premises?

2. 'Long' gone and demolished but well remembered by its regulars, which Brigg pub was built in 1960? Alan ran it very successfully decades ago when it was the 'Inn' place for various functions.

3. Name the vacant-for-some-time Brigg pub given a 'Ray' of hope when acquired in the late 1970s by a local man who rebuilt and reopened it to much acclaim in the early '80s.

4. At which pub did fundraising artiste Vanessa perform regularly at weekends? It was not the 'Bull' but that would also have been an apt venue in view of this performer's surname.

5. Name the hostelry where you could get a welcome from Big Ted, enjoy Raffles and greet The Laughing Policeman on his beat?

6. Donovan, Rampling, Shipley & Sykes... Not a firm of solicitors but former landlords of which Brigg pub?

7. This pub run for many years by a man and wife who had travelled many Myles to Brigg. Scan some of our previous posts to remember them.

8. Name the award-winning Brigg brewery of some rank, with Castlethorpe input, which rolled out the barrel for the final time in the late 1960s

9. Yorkshire anglers used to 'meat' up and stay at this old pub in a Wrawby Street building which later offered favourable odds to punters before becoming an eatery. There are now strong connections with Parris.

10. A pint of Old Tom would be a fitting choice at which revamped Brigg hostelry where a familiar dame is in the picture, together with some Spring's Delights and a few Fair folk?

11. Founded in the 1870s but a 'has Bean' by the mid-1920s, this patriotic pub enjoyed a new Dawn and grew in popularity in more recent times under Phil's rule.

12. Name the historic hostelry which provided 'Suite' memories of Sandy, Madge and Charles.

13. Which licensed premises dropped anchor elsewhere, hoisted the Jolly Roger and took command after Binns had been emptied?

14. Baz had more than a 'Few' good years at this pub but its longest-serving resident is still keeping an eye on passers by.

15.  A firm favourite venue with Brigg Horse Fair regulars, this hostelry's current landlady chairs our local Pub Watch.

16. The Bell tolled for which Brigg pub in the mid-1960s when its long-serving landlord retired? After many years it was reopened and then extended into Ron's shop next door.

Answers below. Scroll down...
















1. Queens Arms (Bob and Sue Nicholson were then mine hosts)
2. Ancholme Inn (Alan Long in the clue)
3. White Hart (Ray Neall in the clue)
4. Brocklesby Ox (Vin Bull in the clue)
5. Exchange (Sgt Triffitt in the clue - statue in the courtyard)
6. Black Bull
7. Nelthorpe Arms or 'Scanlons'
8. Sergeant's
9. Butchers Arms (now occupied by the Deli & Diner)
10. White Horse or Wetherspoon's (actress Dame Joan Plowright in the clue)
11. Britannia (Mine hosts the Clipsons in the clue)
12. Angel Hotel
13. Lord Nelson
14. Dying Gladiator
15. Woolpack
16. Yarborough Hunt