WHEN BRIGG LOST AN OLD FRIEND

Brigg and surrounding communities lost an old friend exactly 35 years ago.
The Lincolnshire & South Humberside Times weekly newspaper published its last edition on July 26, 1985 and closed for good.
Staff and ex-employees met up at the office that afternoon, a Friday, to raise a glass to the end of an era.
For the paper (originally called the Hull Times) had been reporting the news in northern Lincolnshire for 127 years. However, by 1985 the owners closed it on economic grounds, as it was in a loss-making situation.
We were among ex-staff to attend the farewell, having by then moved to work for the Scunthorpe Telegraph (from January 1984).
For some years following closure, an annual July reunion was held - initially at the nearby Exchange and later at the Kings Avenue home of long-serving photographer Coun Bryan Robins, who also went on to work for the Telegraph in Scunthorpe prior to retirement.
Senior Brigg Blog followers who were paper boys and girls decades ago will remember delivering the Times on Friday mornings while out on their rounds. The paper bags many of them lugged around the streets carried the Lincolnshire Times' name on the front.
For many years now we've been invited by local groups to give illustrated talks about the history of the paper and our own time with the Times.
It was a very traditional weekly paper, and proud of the fact. Nothing was considered too small or insignificant to be included, as long as it related to local people or their everyday lives. A bit like Brigg Blog, in paper form, some might think!
We are compiling a two-page Nostalgia feature about the history of the Lincolnshire Times, with personal memories, which will appear in the Scunthorpe Telegraph on Thursday, August 6. 
The Times office at 57 Wrawby Street, Brigg, is pictured above in the late 1960s with a selection of pictures in the front window which many people stopped to look at on their way past. Black and white prints were available for sale to the public, and many were snapped up as family souvenirs.