Correspondence received from Brigg Blog's most senior correspondent in New Zealand suggests this Garden Street sign has been here for at least 80 years. We've told him of a surviving archive picture from 1901 showing another identical sign at the end an alleyway off Wrawby Street. Urban District Councils were created in the 1890s. Could signs like these have resulted from this major step forward in Victorian local government? We will leave the matter with our local history experts to ponder and report back.
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