HOW BRIGG HAS CHANGED OVER 20 YEARS

Brigg is an historic market town but there have still been many changes over the past 20 years. Licensed premises and shops have seen more than most.
Back in 1999 the Ancholme Inn, on Grammar School Road, and the Brocklesby Ox, on Bridge Street, were still attracting decent custom.
But with a few years they were to close, suffer demolition and have new housing put up in their place.  Here we see pictures of the Ox (above) and the Ancholme (below) at the very end.

The Nelthorpe Arms, which served its last pint in May 2018, was still very much a going concern in 1999 with Myles and Mary Scanlon running the bar as they had since the mid-1960s.
 

Tom and Kath Merriman were long-serving mine hosts at the White Horse, on Wrawby Street, in 1999 - in premises later to be revamped by Wetherspoon's.
Baz Fewster was licensee at the Dying Gladiator in 1999. Thankfully, this pub is still going today, although Baz left some years ago.

Brigg Snooker Club was fully licensed.

Brigg Snooker Club - occupying part of the former Layne's Garage on Bigby Street - was still with us in 1999, although it was later to close with conversion to town housing being undertaken.
Tony Sykes was landlord of the Black Bull, on Wrawby Street, 20 years ago when he was chairman of the Brigg & District Licensees' Association and a town councillor. The Bull, founded in 1820, is still operating today but its frontage was altered some years ago.
Brigg had a wide range of banks in 1999, but NatWest and HSBC have since closed; the original Lloyds, on Bigby Street, switched to the TSB premises on Wrawby Street.
Lloyds is still with us today on a 'counter-free' basis, while its former Bigby Street premises now house The Bank hairdressing salon.
In 1999 the Falcon Cycles factory, off Bridge Street, was still standing, while Smith Parkinson's garage showroom occupied a prominent position in the Market Place. The Falcon site was cleared quite recently, while the former garage has been converted to office use.
Two Brigg schools were still on their original sites in 1999 before 'new builds' arrived on Atherton Way.
Steve Pearce was the head at Brigg Primary, which had been on Glebe Road since 1929.
With Geoff Hensman as headteacher in 1999, the Vale of Ancholme was still using the original 1950s Westmoor and Glanford buildings off Grammar School Road and Redcombe Lane.
Brigg Preparatory School, with Pat Newman as head in 1999, was on Bigby Street in the buildings occupied today by Demeter House School.
Other heads in 1999 - running schools that are still with us today on the same sites - were David Brittain at Sir John Nelthorpe School and Tony Norton at St Mary's - also on Grammar School Road.
C. Turner & Sons, on Queen Street, continued to make their own sausages and pork pies in 1999 but the shop was to close in April the following year. Shaw's Outfitters, in the Market Place - another long-established family firm - was also nearing the end 20 years ago.
Their premises today are occupied by The Beauty Clinique and Pastimes.
The Tesco store was very much a new kid on the block in 1999, providing competition for Cary Lane's Kwik Save which later closed. These premises were eventually taken on by Wilko.

Poundstretcher's store, on Wrawby Street, was a popular port of call for bargain hunters in 1999, although this national chain would eventually move out of town. These premises now house Costa Coffee.
PaperLincs had TWO newsagent's shops in 1999 - on Grammar School Road and Springs Parade - while Safeway ran the riverside store (today occupied by B&M).

Harry Wu's renowned Kar Restaurant was a very popular eatery in 1999. Today the two-floor building houses the Mumbai Lounge which attracts customers from far and wide.
Brigg Garden Centre's Bigby High Road premises were known 20 years ago as Frost's Garden Centre, while DDM was still holding regular auctions in the town.
Brigg Library occupied premises facing the Old Courts Road car park in 1999 (since relocated to the Angel building off the Market Place).
Ian Cawsey - the Brigg & Goole MP in 1999 - used No 7 Market Place as his office base in our town. Today's MP, Andrew Percy, also has an office in the town centre.
Brigg Horticultural Show remained an annual summer feature 20 years ago, with George Green managing the event.
Supporters of Brigg Town Football Club in 1999 still had vivid memories of the Zebras lifting the FA Vase at Wembley Stadium, London, just two years earlier when Raz Clayton was the manager.
Brigg Town Mayor 1999/2000 was Coun Adele Tasker, with Jeanette Woollard the Town Clerk. One of Adele's official engagements was lighting the bonfire at the Recreation Ground in November 1999, prior to the town's firework display. Sadly, these communal get-togethers are no longer held.
Our Brigg & Wolds Ward representatives on North Lincolnshire Council 20 years ago were Couns Dick Long, Nigel Sherwood and John Berry.