BRIGG COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS PICTURES FROM PAST YEARS

Brigg Blog today dips into its Christmas Past picture archive to remember some fun festive season nights out enjoyed in town pubs during the run up to Christmas.
We are posting these pix from the past in an effort to raise the spirits of pub-goers who are currently unable to enjoy traditional trips to local hostelries.
Our licensed bars would normally be entering their busiest period of the year - leading up to New Year's Eve, with people joining friends and family or work colleagues for a few drinks and perhaps a sing-song and a spot of dancing to the music.
However, things are different this year due to the Coronavirus emergency restrictions. Lockdown 2.0 closed our bars and has been followed by Tier 3 placement which means the doors remaining locked to customers.
This will remain the case unless there is a change-of-tier review in the middle of this month. Even in Tier 2, though, as things currently stand, bars can only serve drinks to customers consuming 'substantial' meals. And many of our bars do not offer food.  

 

The pictures featured here were all taken on licensed premises during the countdown to Christmas over the past 10-or-so years.
Can you spot the those inside the fondly remembered Ancholme Inn, on Grammar School Road (since demolished)?
Also likely to create interest is our picture of local punk band The Diseased - seen when they got together again to perform at the Britannia in what we think might have been a Brigg Music Club pre-Christmas event. They played well-known song I Spent £4.30, written at a time in the 1980s when band members could get a round in at Brigg Servicemen's Club for this modest charge.
Later this month we plan to bring blog followers another gallery of pub pictures past remembering some of the New Year's Eve celebrations enjoyed in Brigg over the past 10 years.