Background work continues to enable Brigg Town Council to take on the Millennium Green, off Elwes Street, originally managed by a trust.
The Millennium Green was a Year 2000 project to mark the milestone switch from the 20th to the 21st century. It is a tranquil spot, with seating, near the Old River Ancholme, which people can visit to picnic, eat lunchtime sandwiches, or just sit and contemplate their lot in life.
While legal work progresses, Brigg Town Council is looking into getting a "one-off cut" of the grass undertaken at a time of year when it grows most rapidly. Especially when the weather is wet, as it has been of late.
Our picture was taken some time ago by Ken Harrison and shows some of the seating available to the public.
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The MG would perhaps be a good area to construct a public slipway to enable ordinary folk to launch/retrieve their small day-trip river craft...The only other public slipway on the Ancholme is at South Ferriby.
A local slipway would be an indication that the council would be actually promoting the grossly under-used river for recreational purposes by the general public...rather than just talking about it.
Obviously such craft would need Environment Agency licences...but for small craft and depending on whether they are powered, or not, are quite inexpensive....
Don't want to get into depth over the actual Millennium date...but most of UK got it wrong.
The date should have been 1st January 2001...the year 2000 up to 31st December was the last year of the 21st Century.
To relate 2000 to the present Brexit muddle...an associate said that he voted to leave, because he accepted what Michael Gove said about not believing the expert.
He went on to explain that the experts got it wrong with the predicted year 2000 dating collapse of the computer network...often called Y2K Crisis..
When it didn't happen the 'so-called experts were left with egg on their faces'.
The reality was that the actual experts, such as Ross Anderson from Cambridge Uni Computer Lab were sending out hundreds and thousands of press releases, but these were largely ignored by the media.
The media seemed promote hearsay as expert advice to stir up discussion and sales....
In the EU referendum many people questioned experts' advice and predictions...and now have to live with the consequences.
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