FULL PREVIEW OF BRIGG PUMP BLESSINGS ON SATURDAY JUNE 1

FROM BRIGG TOWN BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP

Help Brigg celebrate H.M The Queen’s Coronation at the Pump Blessing on 1st June
Brigg Town Business Partnership has revived the Pump Blessings on the 1st of June after a year's absence and has incorporated it with a celebration of 60 years since Her Majesty the Queen's Coronation on the 2nd June 1953.
Everyone is therefore cordially invited to come along and join in these special thanksgiving celebrations and processions.
The streets of Brigg will be adorned with bunting (thank you to North Lincolnshire Council and Brigg Town Council for their support). The shops will be decorated appropriately, on a Royal theme to celebrate this auspicious event.
The Pumps in question are located at Grammar School Road South and the County Bridge.  Twenty Brownies will be acting as Flower Maidens in the processions carrying baskets with red and white flowers.  They will be blessed by Rev Alec Depledge and Rev Enid Knowles at these blessings, special mention will be made of H.M the Queen’s Coronation and remembered in our prayers and good wishes.
The Pumps will be dressed with flowers (kindly sponsored by Brigg Rotary).  This event will include two grand processions from the Market Place in which the dancing and fun will carry on.
 
Itinerary:
• 9.00am Craft Market opens (this will be open throughout the day);
• 10.00am Dancing commences in the Market Place and surrounding side streets;
• 11.15 am Dancers and members of the public make their way to the first Pump.
• 11.30am Blessing of the first Pump and celebration of H.M the Queen’s Coronation;

(Dancing will recommence)

• 12.00 noon - 12.30pm Break for refreshments;
• 12.30pm The second procession which will start at the Market Place and make its way up Wrawby Street to the second pump on Grammar School Road South (between Brian's DIY and the White Horse) for a blessing at 1.00 pm.
• 1.00pm Blessing of the second Pump and continuation of the celebration of H.M the Queen’s Coronation;

Music and dancing will continue into the early afternoon in both the Market Place and the town.  The entertainment will be provided by the Grimsby Morris Men, Tatterfoals (Scunthorpe Morris Dancing Team), the Bootleggers (Appalachian Dancers) and the Lootbeggers (Olde Type String Band).