BESPOKE NAMES SUGGESTED BY COUNCIL FOR THREE NEWEST BRIGG STREETS

Brigg Town Council is keen to see TWO former factories which employed hundreds of local people honoured in new street names on a large housing development.
During their January meeting held last night (Tuesday, January 26) councillors agreed to call on Keigar - the local house-building company - to change two of the three street names it's proposing for an estate of more than 60 properties off Bridge Street.
Keen to remember cycle-making on this site in past decades, Keigar suggested Elswick Close, Falcon Way and Coventry Eagle Mews... and consulted the town council about these choices.
However, it was pointed out during last night's discussion that the development will also include land once occupied by the Corah clothing factory, as well as by Falcon Cycles.
It was stressed that Elswick AND Hopper were both concerned with cycle manufacture.
So Brigg Town Council's alternative suggestions are Elswick-Hopper Close and Corah Mews (plus Falcon Way as already proposed by Keigar).
Deputy Town Mayor, Coun Brian Parker, outlined Fred Hopper's contribution to cycle manufacture.
Coun Penny Smith highlighted Corah being a major employer of mainly female labour at its factory.
Town Clerk Kerry McGrath suggested the Town Council was a fairly late consultee in the naming process. However, Coun Rob Waltham stressed the authority should still pass on its list of preferred street names to Keigar's management. And this course of action was agreed.
Although dates were not mentioned during last night's debate, Corah came to Brigg in the late 1940s and continued to make garments in the town until the mid-1970s.
The Falcon Cycles factory was later visited by Lady Diana, The Princess of Wales, who was given small bikes as gifts for her then young sons.

PICTURED: An archive view to the entrance to the Falcon Cycles factory, and a recent image showing part of the site which will provide more than 60 new homes in Brigg.