We noticed in a town centre estate agent's window that 33 Wrawby Road, Brigg, is on the market.
This will always be Doctor Foxton's house to us, and we think other Brigg folk of a similar age.
He was a long-serving doctor in the town and his wife a magistrate on the Brigg bench, when we still had a functioning courthouse.
The Lincolnshire Times sent us to No 33 once, in the early 1980s, to conduct an interview, with either the GP or the JP. We think it may have been the latter. In which case it would have been for the popular Women's Talk column. Yes, male reporters had to leave their comfort zone in those days!
Many years earlier we'd delivered morning newspapers to this address for Richardson's, in Wrawby Street, when Winnie Cammack ran the shop.
Our varied round took in council homes in Hawthorn Avenue, East Parade and Central Square but finished on Wrawby Road, with its big detached properties.
The good doctor and his wife took the glossy Illustrated London News magazine - the only copy we delivered. And quite possibly the only one Richardson's ordered.
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It seems that some HGV lorry drivers have heard of the reputation of free overnight parking in the vicinity of Lidl's old car park...certainly over recent nights the HGV population in the area resembles a line-up of battle tanks facing Putin!
However, new drivers, apparently having acquired the basic information, are turning into any side road off Barnard Ave in search of this money-saving nocturnal kip....I've even seen them turn into Tesco, after which the driver seeks clarification re navigational advice and then truddle off to old Lidl's. Others have ended in the cul-de-sac of Old Courts before doing a 180, while others have taken the softer option of parking in the Old Court's car-park (as you have previously mentioned)...
Indeed, the situation seems to be getting rather out of hand as the popularity of the free local parking escalates within the HGV fraternity.
Obviously, there are benefits to the HGV drivers to be billeted in Brigg overnight - toilets - refreshments - shops - rather than staying in a isolated lay-by - but can local roads accommodate the massed army of HGV's that now nocturnally slumber in what could be described as informal street sleep-overs?
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