BRIGG BLOG IS ON THE BUTTON WITH SHOP MEMORIES

Brigg Blog recently reflected on the former Colton Street corner shop operated by Coun George Hewson and his wife to serve the Newlands housing estate decades ago.
Today we recall another convenience establishment elsewhere in the town, which was also still trading in the 1970s and later.
Button's, on Bridge Street (visible on the left of our picture) was also a family-run concern. It was handy for people living on Bridge Street and in terraced houses nearby, since removed.
Further trade came from people staying on the Brocklesby Ox caravan site on the other side of the A18 - behind the historic pub of the same name (since knocked down and replaced by town houses).
Following the closure of the Bridge Street and Colton Street shops, they became purely domestic residences.
There has been a convenience shop on Atkinson Avenue, serving the Springbank estate, since the late 1950s.
Glebe Road has enjoyed a similar facility for decades - again with various operators.
Ernie Robinson operated a small shop on Grammar School Road (near the Ancholme Inn) in the 1960s which continued under different owners until relatively recent times. Much of Ernie's custom came from Hawthorn Avenue and the post-war Woodbine Grove prefabs (removed in the early 1970s).
New housing now occupies the former shop site next to Grammar School Road's Garden chippie. The Ancholme Inn site has also made way for new housing - much of it built on land once occupied by the hostelry's huge car park.