BRIGG TASTES OF THE PAST: HOW MANY CAN YOU REMEMBER?

Do you recall the tastes of Brigg's decades ago?
Can you still savour the tang of Spring's lemon cheese (curd) and the marvellous marmalade made in the town's own factory close to the Old River Ancholme?
Festive seasons or special occasion today remind Brigg Blog of Turner's wonderful pork pies, made by the Queen Street butcher to a family recipe.
They were always a feature of our family's Christmas Day and Boxing Day tea 'spreads' in the 1960s and 1970s. We loved 'the jelly' beneath the crisp crust.
There was cheese from Instone's, on Wrawby Street, too.
Jack Waters, the butcher, provided the week's Sunday roast - always tasty - and the mince for stews and Cornish pasties on weekdays, plus the sliced bacon.
Melia's, in the Market Place, delivered the neatly-boxed grocery order every Thursday by van - and were glad to do so to ensure continued custom.
We tucked into Bowen's cream-filled meringues which were wonderful but soon made a hole in limited weekly pocket money, and the bake house's penny bread loaves - breakfast 'on the hoof' for many children on their way to school in the morning.
With inflation, what would they cost today if Bowen's was still trading?
These delights would be washed down with a glass of 'pop' from Laws - Lindsey Aerated Water Supplies, made at a factory near today's Springs Parade.
Sweets were bought from Mrs Gray's shop on Glebe Road, from Mike Tierney's on Wrawby Street, Jack Clark's Brigg Grammar School tuck shop, Ernie Robinson's general store on Grammar School Road and Lilley's (Springbank) depending on how far we ventured from home and whether there was cash in pocket.
Wine gums and other delights were weighed out from jars - a quarter (of a pound) being the standard measure.
Crisps were a childhood staple and gained in popularity once the standard salted variety had been expanded by flavours like chicken, salt & vinegar and smokey bacon.
Riley's (later Sooner's)  made theirs at a factory in Scunthorpe, while Golden Wonder and Smith's were also popular in Brigg.
Bags of chips were bought from Evy's shop on Glebe Road, with lashings of free salt and vinegar sprinkled on the top.
Sargeant's, of Hibaldstow, described its product as "delicious dairy ice cream" and had every justification in doing so. 
But when you'd dashed out of the house after hearing the bell heralding the ice cream van's arrival, did you have a cornet, a wafer sandwich or a tub? We always found cornets to be longer lasting.
PICTURED: Spring's marmalade and lemon cheese.