BRIGG SPORTS REUNIONS PLANNED AND HELD

A Brigg sports club reunion is now in the planning stages, while another has already taken place.
Coming up later this year should be a get-together for former players and officials of Brigg Amateurs Football Club to mark the 60th anniversary of its formation to enjoy home games at the Recreation Ground - followed by a compulsory "shandy" in the Queens Arms, on Wrawby Street!
Amateurs had sufficient players to field THREE Saturday teams in the Scunthorpe & District League for a time in the 1980s before a sad decline saw the club disappear from the scene.
However, former players still living locally are now looking to stage a reunion at Brigg & District Servicemen's Club "towards Christmas, if there is enough interest shown."
Just a couple of hours before receiving news of that planned football get-together, we were informed of a small scale sports reunion that took place recently.
Councillor Brian Parker, the current Brigg Town Mayor, met up with Allan Kemshell - both being batsmen with the Town cricket club when it was relaunched in 1974 after a gap of more than 30 years.
Coun Brian informs Brigg Blog that they had an interesting discussion, sharing memories and interesting stories from those early days of the club.
"It was very good to catch up with him," the Town Mayor adds.
Coun Brian also reminds us of some highly enjoyable Sunday friendly games that Brigg played in the latter half of the 1970s at a sportsground in Tadcaster which belonged to one of the big breweries based there.
Brian proved popular with the home team; so much so that he was appointed honorary Mayor of Tadcaster!
"Quite funny how life turns out, as I am now a real Mayor!" he adds today.
In one of these games away to Magnet Sports/Tadcaster Brewery, we recall renowned Brigg all-rounder Dave Foster scoring a century -  the first for the Town club since the 1930s.
Around 20 years ago we went to play a Yorkshire League hockey match for Brigg against a team called Boston Spa.
After the game on an all-weather and floodlit pitch, the Brigg side was invited to drive into nearby Tadcaster for refreshments.
It was getting dark at the time of arrival but we soon recognised the venue... the same one we had first visited as a Brigg cricketer a quarter of a century earlier!

PICTURED: Trophy-winning Brigg Amateurs at the Rec Ground in the early 1960s, and Town Mayor Coun Brian Parker meeting up in the Market Place with Allan Kemshell to remember those early days of Brigg Town Cricket Club in the mid-1970s (image courtesy of Ken Harrison, Brigg Matters magazine).