Saturday, August 13, 2016

STRAW POLL UNDERTAKEN ON BRIGG STREETS


Brigg Blog can't be the only one in town to have noticed the amount of straw blowing about near the A18.
We photographed some recently close to the Britannia Inn and Cups & Cones, but must admit to only seeing a couple of straw bale-laden lorries passing through in recent weeks. 
Straw being a natural product, it breaks down with time. But we don't want too much of it getting down the grates and into the drains. 
Lincolnshire is proud to be a major agricultural county, and long may it continue. 
Reflect on how many jobs there used to be at Brigg Sugar Factory, supplied by beet-carrying lorries from which some of the produce managed The Great Escape while passing along the A18.
Barnes Wallis had his Bouncing Bombs; Brigg once had its Bouncing Beet!






4 comments:

Ken Harrison said...

Can you remember the miners' strike in the early 80s ,Nige.
Seemingly over-loaded coke lorries grumbled loads of coke on the Briggate et al roundabouts...folks were regularly
out with their shovels and buckets scooping up the spillage.
In addition, Barnes Wallis worked comparatively close to Brigg in the late 1920s...at Howden, near Goole, constructing the Vickers R100 airship..
His 2nd engineer was Nevil Norway aka Shuts the author ..i.e. A Town Like Celia!

Ken Harrison said...

S.h.u.t.e.s...this pre-emptive text thing is a nightmare!!

Unknown said...

In the far-off days of yesteryear, Nige....folks used to put newly threshed straw on the compacted earth floor of their houses.
To keep the straw in the room, a plank, or stone was placed at the bottom of the doorway ....hence threshold....i.e. crossing the threshold etc..

Unknown said...

In the far-off days of yesteryear, Nige....folks used to put newly threshed straw on the compacted earth floor of their houses.
To keep the straw in the room, a plank, or stone was placed at the bottom of the doorway ....hence threshold....i.e. crossing the threshold etc..