Being invited to tour the refurbished Angel 'community hub' building a few days ago gave Brigg Blog an opportunity to take this lofty picture from the top floor - looking across the Market Place - and compare it with a view (circa 1963) recorded from a light plane or helicopter high above the Angel Hotel.
Barclays is evident in both scenes, occupying the corner property once used by Tadcaster Brewery Company.
No 7 Market Place, to the left of the Cary Lane junction, has seen various uses over several centuries - housing Gray's Cafe in the 1960s and subsequently being converted into offices used by council staff, the South Humber Advice Centre and Ian Cawsey during his years as Brigg & Goole MP.
There was another historic property adjoining No 7 (latterly occupied by the Lincolnshire Times newspaper) but it was removed in the early 1950s to widen Cary Lane for traffic flow purposes when the A18 still ran through the Market Place.
The Freemasons continue to occupy a converted town house on Cary Lane beyond Barclays - the Ancholme Lodge having been formed in 1869.
Buses still serve Cary Lane but the bus station of the early 1960s, where many public service vehicles used to be parked to await their next journeys, is now a descriptive term rooted in the past.
No 7 Market Place today and (below) in the early 1960s when it housed a popular cafe.
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