Someone we spoke to recently remembered us taking her picture in the Lord Nelson that evening 16 years ago.
Looking back to the start of the new Millennium, here are a few businesses around at the time - some still going today.
- Wallheads Menswear Specialists, 52 Wrawby Street (pictured above)
- China Royal Restaurant, Bridge Street (seen here).
- Grandad's Shed, 61 Wrawby Street
- E&M Carpets and Furniture, Bridge Street
- Mischief, 9 Chapel Court
- Varlows Ladies' Fashions, Market Place
- Smith Parkinson, Market Place, and then with a sales site on "Tesco Roundabout."
- Events, 8 School Court
- The Wold Florist, 50 Wrawby Street
- Sue Rhodes, 1 Wrawby Street
- Apollo Recruitment Specialists, Pelham House, Bridge Street
- Babes in the Wood, 2 Wrawby Street
- Way In Ladies' Fashion Boutique, 12 Market Place
- KingKom Ltd Mobile Phones & Accessories, 11a Market Place
- Brian Parker (Agricultural) Ltd, Westrum Lane
- Eclipse Hair, 8 Bigby Street
- Brian's DIY, 24 Wrawby Street
- Barnes & Son Watchmakers and Jewellers, 63 Wrawby Street
- TJ's Private Hire
- The Brigg Travel Centre, 19 Wrawby Street
- Capps Electrical Retailers, 6 Albert Street
- Britcliffe Carpets, 7 and 9 Elwes Street
- TJS Models, 12 School Court
- Scentiments, 19 Old School Court
- Earnshaws, Bridge Street
- Brigg Window Company, Bigby Road (showrooms) and Island Carr Industrial Estate
- Frost's Garden Centre, Bigby High Road
- The Fone Factory, 46 Wrawby Street
- Paul Fox, 21 Market Place
- Bell Watson, Wrawby Street
- John Blanchard Domestic Appliance Repairs, The Briar Patch, Redcombe Lane
- Cary Lane Taxis
- Glebe Road Stores
- Poundstretcher, Wrawby Street (seen here)
- Paper Lincs, Grammar School Road and Spring's Parade
- S & H Bhatti Newsagents, Bridge Street
- Glebe Road Fishery
- Scalinis Fish Bar, Wrawby Street
- Boots, Wrawby Street
- Pailthorpe's Jewellers, Wrawby Street
- Pickering's, Wrawby Street
- Martin's, Wrawby Street
- W Sherwood & Sons Cycles, Bridge Street (pictured below)
- Dunham's Bakers, Bridge Street
- Turner's Butchers, Queen Street
- Safeway, near Spring's Parade
- Tesco, Barnard Avenue
- Kwik Save, Cary Lane
- Peacock & Binnington, Bridge Street/Foundry Lane
- Shaw's Outfitters, Market Place
- Kar Restaurant, Old Courts Road
- DDM, Wrawby Street
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....and wot about the bookies!....the shops in Elwes St...the Chinese take-a ways...the pizza shop..the shop in Wrawby Rd..the Deli Diner..funeral directors..the car spares shop..the fruit-based detergent outlet in GSR South (now part of Brian's DIY)..barber shop near Wallheads..the pet shops...the health shop in College Yard....the shops around Old Courts Rd...ie the auctioneers...was Radley's Travel about at the time?....the old library (now Brigg Office Supplies)...the car body/respray shop near Tesco (redundant asbestos building still remains)..Spelman's lock-up; taxi office; Wendy's etc in Cary Lane..MP's office on corner..Barnard's butchers in Beige St....the fruit and veg shop (now Couriousiteas..is that the spelling?)............
As a purist, Nige....the Millennium actually started just after midnight on 1st January, 2001.....the year 2000 would give 999 years in a millennium...!!!
For those who can't get their heads around the above...try this..
You have a 100 boxes...number them 1 to 100.
Put them in batches of 10 keeping them in number order.
The first batch would be the boxes numbered 1 to 10...so the 2nd batch would be the boxes numbered what?
Transfer this notion to Centuries and Millenniums....remembering no year (like the boxes) was numbered '0'.
(also remembering that a year starts on 1st Jan and is complete only after 31 Dec)..
For those who can't get their heads around the above...try this..
You have a 100 boxes...number them 1 to 100.
Put them in batches of 10 keeping them in number order.
The first batch would be the boxes numbered 1 to 10...so the 2nd batch would be the boxes numbered what?
Transfer this notion to Centuries and Millenniums....remembering no year (like the boxes) was numbered '0'.
(also remembering that a year starts on 1st Jan and is complete only after 31 Dec)..
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