SOWING THE SEEDS OF BRIGG RECREATION GROUND IMPROVEMENT

The cricket square at Brigg Recreation Club is getting attention as part of major improvements being undertaken to the leisure facility. 

The ambitious scheme will involve removing the old changing room block built in the early 1980s - seen in the distance on the above picture - and building a new 21st century replacement.

Hockey, football, tennis and cricket will be among sports catered for at "The New Rec" - if we can call it that.

Brigg hockey has been awaiting a floodlit artificial pitch since the late 1980s.  It is a pity it has come too late for some of us to try, but this will be a major boost for the Brigg Hockey Club players of today - men, ladies and juniors.

What a transformation it is going to be from the 1950s and 1960s when the changing rooms were fashioned from former farmyard outbuildings!  Forward-thinking Brigg Urban District Council bought what was then a farm and grassed it over to cater for football, hockey and cricket. From 1974 to 1996 it was operated by Glanford Borough Council, with North Lincolnshire Council taking charge for the past 18 years. Now  it is planned that a sports organisation will take charge of running things.