NEW BRIGG VIDEO WILL INTEREST HISTORIANS OF THE FUTURE

It's important to record today's Brigg buildings, street scenes and events for prosperity.
Traditionally, this has been done through photographs - black & white and colour prints and now digital imagery.
But Brigg railway line campaigner Paul Johnson has taken things a stage further with some video footage.
He compiled what he calls a Walk Around Video of Brigg Station "and popped it onto the Brigg Memories Facebook page."
He tells us that his footage enjoyed more than 100 views in just 24 hours!
Brigg Blog is a firm believer that today's events are tomorrow's history, and Paul's welcome video fills a void in the archive.
He tells us that passenger numbers on the Saturday-only Brigg line passenger service at the weekend "were rather good to say we are in the non-peak season."
There were a number of new travellers using the line due to promotion and fare reductions, he explains.
View Paul's video of Brigg station here...
Brigg Blog was talking to a well-known resident in the town centre the other day, while she was out early taking photographs in the town centre for her own amusement.
We told her that Brigg Blog should make arrangements to pass on our extensive gallery of pictures taken over many years, as they may be of use, and interest, to people in years to come. They will bring back many Brigg Memories.
Imagine how interesting it would be if  today we could view footage of Brigg station during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. 
The facility then enjoyed passenger trains seven days a week, of course, starting with the very early morning mail train from Manchester. 
It would be great to watch film footage of B1 4-6-0s or  D11 Director 4-4-0s heading trains  from Sheffield, simmering in our station when it still boasted a roof and an extensive range of buildings provided by the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, later the Great Central, then the London North Eastern and latterly British Railways (from 1948).

The above picture shows a preserved 'Black Five' 4-6-0 steam locomotive nearing Brigg station some years ago at the head of an enthusiasts' special. Weekend summer excursion from South Yorkshire during the age of steam came through Brigg on their way to Cleethorpes, packed with sun- and fun-seekers from Sheffield out for the day to sample the resort's Wonderland Amusements, Big Dipper, Kiss-Me-Quick Hats,  donkey rides, sticks of rock, seafront pubs and fish and chips. 


Pictured below: A preserved B1 4-6-0 crossing the old Cadney Road bridge over the River Ancholme some years ago with an enthusiasts' train, bound for Cleethorpes.