BRIGG PUMP DRESSING, MORRIS DANCING & MUSIC IN THE TOWN CENTRE - PICTURES BY KEN HARRISON

Dancing in the Brigg Market Place Bandstand

Brigg Town Business Partnership hosted the annual Pump Dressing ceremonies in the town centre on Saturday. There was dancing and music to accompany the floral bedecking of the surviving communal water pumps in Bridge Street and Grammar School Road South, which provided townsfolk with their supplies before taps in houses became the norm. 
The event also marked the 100th anniversary of the Brownies. 
Among those taking part were the Grimsby Morris Men, the Bootleggers and the Tatterfoals. Our thanks, as ever, are extended to Ken Harrison for some fine and varied pictures from the event.

The Tatterfoals pose alongside the decorated water pump in Bridge Street

Grimsby Morris Men

The Bridge Street pump, complete with a brown owl, was decorated to recognise the 100th anniversary of the Brownies, With them is Coun The Rev Alec Depledge.

Chris Darlington on the right, in Grammar School Road South

Brigg Town Business Partnership's Malcolm Bailey aided Coun The Rev Alec Depledge and read a passage emphasising the importance of water - a prophetic reading as the heaviest rain of the day then fell!

The Green Man - the masculine version of Mother Nature - points out another Green Man (painted purple) image over the doorway of Glad Rags in Wrawby Streeet.....Indeed, there are six more of these pre-Christian effigies on the old Baptist Chapel ( now Lovelle Estate Agency in Wrawby Street.)

King Charles 1 & 2 take refuge from the rainstorm