NAMING MORE BRIGG STREETS AFTER RESPECTED MEDICS WOULD BE GOOD PRACTICE

A current Brigg planning application seeking permission to create a new special needs school (ADD LINK) on Wrawby Road has rekindled memories of one of the town's best-known medics from the second half of the 20th century.
The site proposed for the school is a property between Beldon House and the Health Place offices (formerly Glanford Hospital).
When Brigg Town Council's Planning & Environment Committee discussed this application, chairman Coun Brian Parker, the Deputy Town Mayor, made reference to the Wrawby Road bungalow being used decades ago by Dr Holme.
This GP was honoured by having Brigg street named after him in the late 1970s or early 1980s - Holme Close, off York Road - and also a social club, Robert Holme Hall, on Church Lane, Scunthorpe - adjacent to the General Hospital and used by medical staff. Doc Holme became a councillor after retiring from his practice, having been a GP in the town for 40 years.
This naming honour set Brigg Blog thinking about contemporaries of Dr Holme, and where THEY lived in the town.
Dr John Foxton and Dr Ernie Bowler both had detached properties on Wrawby Road. Ernie's was near the junction with Woodbine Avenue/East Parade, while John's house was the last on the way out to Wrawby, behind the Recreation Ground. Today's Foxton Way (a relatively modern development) is on the northern edge of the town, on the edge of the Springbank estate.

Is Dixon Close, off Redcombe Lane, named after another former Brigg GP?
We think Dr John Willis, of Brigg's Bridge Street practice, was living in Wressle during the early 1980s when we started reporting meetings of Brigg Town Council, on which he served. He had also played hockey for the Brigg club.
Dr Ken Proctor, from a later generation of medics, lived on Albert Street and also in Scawby Brook.
Glanford Hospital had some long-serving matrons, sisters and nurses.
In its latter years the hospital's main building specialised in caring for elderly patients; however, for decAades it had offered a full service, including surgical operations, and also helped to bring Brigg babies into the world (some still living locally, as adults).
With many housing developments planned in Brigg at present (and more to follow in the years ahead) new street names will be required.
Could a case be made for honouring some of Brigg's respected medics of the past whose names do not already appear on local street signs?
PICTURED: Dr Holme in the early 1970s and his former bungalow on Wrawby Road, close to Glanford Hospital (now Health Place).