With scores of other Brigg residents I joined the parade yesterday from the town centre to the Recreation Ground, via Cary Lane, Ash Grove, Redcombe Lane, Grammar School Road and Preston Drive.
The final stretch to the bottom end of the Rec took in what's now a play area, but was once the site of "Brigg Prefabs" (known officially as Woodbine Grove).
We paraded close to the spot where No 16 once stood - home to the Fisher family in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when I were no but a lad.
There's nothing to show the prefabs once stood here, but the memories live on.
Families who lived there included the following:
Bray, Bird, Quirke, Parker, Whitehand, Kennedy, Smith, Shaw and Howson.
Sadly, some of the residents are no longer with us, including a couple from my age group.
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In the Loft,on the wall, Scribs....there is a painting of the Woodbine Grove with kids playing leapfrog in the 1950's outside the prefabs,
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