BRIGG SOCIAL HISTORY ITEMS BEING RECOMMENDED FOR DISPOSAL

North Lincolnshire Council is now looking to dispose of 753 items from its social history collection, including some from the Brigg area. A decision will be made on the proposal towards the end of this month.
"Key points" listed in a council report include North Lincolnshire Museums having many duplicate items, and officers identifying some objects as surplus to requirement after being inherited from Glanford Borough Council (based in Brigg) and Scunthorpe Borough Council.
Brigg Blog has worked its way through the extensive list of items earmarked for disposal, which includes books, medals and items of clothing. 

Here are some of  local interest, with officers' comments...
Newspaper cutting "Brigg firm goes pop after 100 years" about J.W. White and Sons Ltd - "to go to parish files."
Black and white postcard showing County Bridge, Brigg. - "duplicate."
Various colour photographs of the Angel Hotel, Brigg - "duplicates."
Painting of Somerby Hall by by John J. Cresswell - "no provenance, not local subject."
Photograph of unidentified villages (according to receipt), circa 1880s. Taken by W. Westoby of South Kelsey - "not local."
East Perspective View of South Kelsey Hall - "No provenance, not local."
The council report now under consideration says: "Other Museums may be interested in conserving or displaying surplus items." 

The disposal procedure is explained as follows...

• The council agrees to dispose of the items.
• It offers the objects to other accredited museums by placing and advert on the Museums Associations ‘Find An Object’ webpage.
• It arranges to give or sell any remaining objects, such as by returning to donor where applicable or by offering to local institutions such as local history societies and parish councils.
• It invests any proceeds in the Museum collections.

The council report's suggestion that Kelsey and Somerby items are "not local" relates to these settlements being outside North Lincolnshire; they are in neighbouring West Lindsey.
A member of North Lincolnshire Council's cabinet will decide whether to accept the recommendations accompanying the report.
Brigg Blog recently posted a piece about the town-based White's soft drinks company. A picture of it, on Elwes Street, taken about 100 years ago, appears above. The 'duplicate' newspaper cutting listed in the council's report dates, we think, from the late 1960s.