NEWLANDS MEMORIES

With the scheduled Brigg Town Council meetings at the Angel Suite re-arranged, I decided to pop into the Nelthorpe Arms (Scanlon's) for a pint last night. Much interest then centred on a folder of old black and white Brigg prints I happened to have with me.
They included children playing on an overgrown play area on the Newlands Estate in 1961 (we think we've identified one of them, still living in the town today); a view of the Market Place on a Thursday, again early 1960s, when two-way traffic was still permitted along Bigby Street and Wrawby Street; plus a couple of bird's eye views of the town centre, taken from a helicopter. One showed the stockmarket being built in Cary Lane (early 1960s). A couple of horse fair survivors were in the folder, too, with LAWS pop factory in the background. Plus some interesting ones of the sugar factory in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Keep watching the Scunthorpe Telegraph's Monday Nostalgia page and reading the monthly Nostalgia magazine. These images, and others from Brigg, are going re-appear in print for the first time in almost half-a-century. Some really crackers among them.

PS: Who remembers the old wooden youth club building? That's among the "finds" too.