Historic Brigg names die hard and live on, as this picture (top right) demonstrates.
Our town's Tesco's store opened its doors to the public for the first time on Monday, January 18, 1999.
Over many months it had been constructed on the site of the former stockmarket, where beasts had been auctioned for decades.
However, the location of what we think is an electricity sub-station on the edge of Tesco's car park (adjoining Barnard Avenue) is still identified as 'Cattle Market Brigg'. The plaque also bears the lettering 'Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) plc" - a 21st century utility company.
If the emergency services ever needed to attend a call-out to this facility, would 'Cattle Market Brigg' prove a problem in terms of location?
It seems to us that 'Brigg Tesco' or even 'Barnard Avenue, Brigg' would be more relevant almost 22 years after the major retailer set up shop locally. And the addition of Tesco's local postcode DN20 8AD would be an example of 'every little helps'.
PICTURED: A Brigg Cattle Market scenes from the 1960s and 1970s and Northern Powergrid's current facility and signage near Tesco.
