PICTURE AND REPORT FROM KEN HARRISON, BRIGG MATTERS MAGAZINE
James Truepenny, or rather Councillor James Truepenny, sometime Brigg Town Mayor x 2 is too young to have experienced the heyday of the scooter and the Mod trends of the '60s... unlike us oldies who remember it well.
We survived the Vespas and Lambrettas, the Beatles' Love Me Do, Roy Orbison's Oh, Pretty Woman, Parka jackets and quiffs to re-tell our tales of misspent youth of yesteryear.
NF ADDS: Ken's comments follow recent post about Brigg being the gateway to the Wolds for two-wheel transport devotees aboard their scooters and motorcycles.
Here's a link to what we had to say on the subject...
The scooters Ken pictured are parked close to Wetherspoon's White Horse pub.
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3 comments:
If you read my comment to your reference to, 'Gateway' in a recent blog, Nige,I emphasised 'Pathgway'...an historically accurate description of Brigg as there is a known massive Bronze Age Trackway of substantial worked timbers of oak ,(not properly examined) that crossed the Ancholme valley, from approximately Castlethorpe to approximately somewhere north of the A18 road bridge.
'Gateway' is already used by a couple of towns in the Wilds.
If this Trackway, described as a massive structure was properly excavated, it would have a greater impact than any of two Bronze Age boats found in the Town.
We know it exists: partly exposed in circa 1885 and again in 1933...structural timbers were also found on the banks of the New River Ancholme in 1955..seemingly placed there when Dutch navies first dug the cannalised river in the C17th.
BUT, daft as it sounds, there is no record of the locations of these partially excavated sites.
Properly excavated, I suggest, it would put the famous Bronze Age trackway of Flag Fen in the shade....which has become a significant tourist attraction with the reconstruction of a Bronze Age settlement....a potential tourist bombshell for Brigg.
.....we tend to think of Brigg as coming into prominence with the Market Charter, but the site of Brigg goes back much further.
These modern day scooters lack the significant items of the 60's; mirrors...it was important to festoon the handle-bars with as many mirrors as possible...so much money was spent on mirrors, it didn't really matter that the owner had very little cash left to spend on fuel....and even when the scooter did move, there was so much weight and wind drag that top speed was reduced....mirrors were a status symbol.
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