WHEN FAMOUS RETAILER BINNS HAD A STORE IN BRIGG

In which decade did Brigg lose its high profile Binns store?
This became one of the most famous names in UK retailing with prestigious department stores operating far and wide, BEING associated with the House of Fraser; there were also outlets in Scunthorpe and Grimsby.
A visit to the beer garden of the Lord Nelson in our town centre at the weekend, via Exchange Place, twice took us past the part of these licensed premises formerly occupied by the Binns store... and set us thinking about the past.
A subsequent check in our archives yesterday revealed that, in May 1979, Brigg hotelier David Middleton was granted permission to change the use of the former shop to extend his Lord Nelson next door, on the corner of Exchange Place.
Glanford Borough Council, then the local planning authority, gave unanimous approval at one of its meetings to convert what, 43 years ago, was described as the recently closed store.
At various times this part of the extended Nelson was known as the Jolly Roger and later Hardy's Cafe/Bar - named after Admiral Lord Nelson's fellow officer, Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, who was there when Horatio died during the victorious Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
We have vague memories of attending a Glanford Borough Council planning exhibition about future development plans for Brigg which we think was held in these retail premises in the Market Place but not while it was Binns.
As a few Glanford planning staff members from that period still live locally, perhaps someone can confirm this and come up with the year. We attended as an interested member of the public, not in a reporting capacity. Glanford BorougH Council was established in 1974.
Can anyone suggest the year in which the Brigg branch of Binns opened? Examples of the goods it sold would also be useful.
Brigg's Binns must have been one of the company's smallest, in terms of floor space. We'd also appreciate receiving pictures anyone might have showing Binns while it was still operating in the town centre.
Edward Dodd's book, Brigg, published in 1974, features a local artist's painting/sketch of the Market Place which includes part of the Binns store.
These pictures show the extended Lord Nelson in the early 1990s while the Corn Exchange was still standing, and more recently. The Jolly Roger bar was established in the 1980s.