Network Rail's Bigby High Road/Bigby Road crossing will be shut on Sunday, June 12, from 1.30am to 7.30am.
Another closure period will be introduced at this level crossing on July 23, from 9am to 2pm.
Expect another closure at the same location from 9pm on August 27 to 2pm on August 28.
Find out more about road closures by visiting https://www.roadworks.org
also beware of delays @ barnetby top as 3 way traffic lights are back from today,last time traffic queued back onto motorway,halfway to melton ross & pass gallows wood.
ReplyDeleteWot's going to happen to the signal box once it becomes redundant in near future....Elsham and other local boxes have preservation orders....Brigg doesn't....
ReplyDeleteIn future generations, will they regret losing an olde world landmark....a bit like losing our windmills...
Now for more trivia...
re Ye Olde Shoppe...no it doesn't say Ye Oldie Shop....it says The Old Shop.
B4 we settled on 26 letters in the alphabet, there were others letters that have now become redundant.
One letter was called a THANE and phonetically made a 'th' sound.
But for sometime after the introduction of the present alphabet letters, printers looked for ways of streamlining their work.
The letter 'Y' looked more like a thane than any other letter and was, therefore, used as a short-cut to produce a 'th' sound in a word.
It is our modern misinterpretation and/or misunderstanding that 'Ye' is pronounced 'Ye'.....Victorians didn't go round literally calling Charles Dickens' 'The Old Curiosity Shop'...'Ye
O.C.S'...
Yank you...
Silly me.....not Thane....it should be Thorn....sorry...
ReplyDeleteEmma Smith..a past editor of Brigg Matters use to print her name in the magazine as Emma Smiy....check some back issues.
ReplyDeleteENCYLOPAEDIA can still the ae as a single combined letter called a ASH
Other misconceptions that have entered the modern psycho...
ReplyDelete1. That Father Christmas is a tubby man in a red cloak....originally he was a dwarf, the chief toy making elf dressed in green...his so-called traditional image was reinforced by C.Cola to promote the drink and dressed in red to incorporate the organisation's corporate colour image.
2. Blue for boy, pink for girl...not originally. A king's colour is regal red...and a royal prince's status was shown as a pale red, or pink.....It was blue for Queens and for the Virgin Mary....a sign of chastity and purity...thus princesses wore pale blue ribbons to show their sub-station in the royal court.
Both sexes wore long dresses and had long hair during their early years and in paintings it was difficult to distinguish a Prince from a princess....
It wasn't until about 1920's that it became fashionable to dress babies in gender coloured ribbons/attire by the General public...but there was some misunderstanding and the pink/blue scheme reversed.
3. The International Space Station does not experience gravity...no..it is within the Earth's gravitional field, so does have some gravity.
The ISS is circling the Earth at great speed and because it is going round in a circle is always in a state of free-fall....identical to the so-called Vomit Comet...the plane that dives to create the feeling of weightlessnes..
4.The traditional date of Brigg Fair is 5th August...no...more Brigg Fairs have occurred on 25th July.
The Brigg Charter indicated that Brigg Fair was to be held on the
FEAST OF ST JAMES' - 25th July...the date changed by default following the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar - replacing the Julian Cal in (Uk) in the 1790's. During the transition dates were displaced by 11 days..thus 25/7 became 5/8.
5. It is very unlikely that King Harold was killed with an arrow in hid eye...as depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry....a. the image of the soldier with an arrow in his eye was added some 50 after the tapestry was made...b..It was customary at the time to show usurper to the king as symbolically being killed with an arrow thro' the eye.
Other enemies to a king were shown in a similar manner.
Therefore, the image,added over 2 generations later could represent Harold,but the arrow bit is only symbolic indicating that he was a defeated usurper.
6. Rorkes Drift - Chard and Bromhead are traditionally perceived as the great heroes of the battle. However, both were eager to retreat when the Zulus appeared.
History now records an ex sargeant major - the Commissionary James Langley Dalton as the hero of the day. He persuaded Chard and Bromhead to stay and organised the defences.
While Victoria X's were awarded to soldiers, the government did not bestow the award to Dalton until and reluctantly some years later....