Tuesday, May 12, 2020

BRIGG SHOPS & BUSINESSES QUIZ - PART ONE


As Brigg Blog's first quiz generated a good deal of interest a few weeks ago, today we follow our pubs and bars teaser with one about shops and businesses.
Give it a go and test your knowledge. The answers appear below... if you scroll down.

1. Name Brigg's first sizeable supermarket, built close to the river in the early 1980s.

2. Name the Wrawby Street business launched in the early 1980s which turned our camera films into glossy prints on the premises.

3. What was the surname of the long-serving Wrawby Street sweet shop proprietor who was a definite Goodie?

4. Bullseye TV host Jim shared his name with which Brigg family firm selling tasty bread from two shops?

5. Name of a London borough and a Brigg family business which was located near to the Buttercross and had W. H. Smith's as a near neighbour.

6. Surname of the 'Ernest' shop owner and councillor who tended to TVs and also did a Dinky trade in toys.

7. This famous retailer picked and mixed when it came to goods, with bargain broken biscuits for Brigg kids on pocket money day.

8. Brigg butchery business still using great grandma's Victorian sausage recipe when it shut up shop for the final time in 2000?

9. Garage business which closed in the early 1980s and shared its name with Brigg's around the world traveller and hitch-hiking record breaker.

10.  Bargains galore could be enjoyed at whose budget shop on Bridge Street, near the White Hart?












ANSWERS
1. Grandways  (Jackson's also acceptable)
2.  Brigg Photolabs
3. Binns
4. Bowen
5. Hounslow
6. Taylor
7. Woolworth
8. Turner
9. Sass (nickname of Andrew Markham)
10. Gwen

Part two of our shops and businesses quiz will follow at a later date.s Brigg Blog's first quiz generated a good deal of interest a few weeks ago, today we follow our pubs and bars teaser with one about shops and businesses.
Give it a go and test your knowledge. The answers appear below... if you scroll down.

1. Name Brigg's first sizeable supermarket, built close to the river in the early 1980s.

2. Name the Wrawby Street business launched in the early 1980s which turned our camera films into glossy prints on the premises.

3. What was the surname of the long-serving sweet shop proprietor who was a definite Goodie?

4. Bullseye TV host Jim shared his name with which Brigg family firm which sold bread from two shops?

5. Name of a London borough and a Brigg family business which was near to the Buttercross and W. H. Smith's shop.

6. Surname of the 'Ernest' shop owner and councillor who tended to TVs and did a Dinky trade in toys.

7. This famous retailer picked and mixed when it came to goods, with bargain broken biscuits for Brigg kids on pocket money day.

8. Brigg butchery business still using great grandma's Victorian sausage recipe when it shut up shop for the final time in 2000?

9. Garage business which closed in the early 1980s and shared its name with Brigg's around the world traveller and hitch-hiking record breaker.

10.  Bargains galore could be enjoyed at whose shop on Bridge Street, near the White Hart?















ANSWERS

1. Grandways  (Jackson's also acceptable)
2. Photolabs
3. Binns
4. Bowen
5. Hounslow
6. Taylor
7. Woolworth
8. Turner
9. Sass (nickname of Andrew Markham)
10. Gwen

Part two of our shops and businesses quiz will follow at a later date.

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