SWEET MEMORIES AS NEW BRIGG SHOP FRONT PROPOSED

A new shop front with potential to be used by a tenant is being suggested for a building near Brigg town centre.
A local company has submitted proposals for the former Anglian Water Depot, off Grammar School Road South (almost opposite the rear beer garden of Wetherspoon's White Horse pub & restaurant).
The applicant wishes to replace doors and windows to the south & east elevations with painted timber flush double-glazed windows. The current use of the site is described as storage, office and yard.
A supporting statement submitted to North Lincolnshire Council explains: "The applicant would like to alter the south and east elevations to sympathetically renovate and improve the appearance of the existing buildings.
"The east elevation of the northern range has an existing galvanised steel roller shutter door, which fronts directly onto Grammar School Road.
"The applicant would like to replace this with a traditional timber shop front for potential use by separate tenants/occupants of the eastern end of the building."
Brigg Town Council will be consulted about this application as part of the planning process, with North Lincolnshire Council then making the final decision.
Having declared its Brigg depot surplus to requirements some months ago, Anglian Water placed it on the property market through an agent and a sale was forthcoming.
Eventually bisected by a new inner-relief road forming part of the diverted A18 in the early 1990s, Grammar School Road once had several shops of note. Today there is just one - Brigg Motability, a stone's thrown from Wrawby Street and adjoining Brians DIY.
Former retail premises included Jack Clark's Brigg Grammar School 'tuck' shop & newsagent's (latterly Paper Lincs), Bowen's shop attached to its bakehouse, and Ernie Robinson's general store where children went to stock up with sweets (later known as Reid's).
The first two shops mentioned were converted back to residential use, while the latter property was demolished. Housing now occupies this site close to the fish & chip business, which is still trading, adjoining the Preston Drive junction.
As part of the relief road and pedestrianisation scheme, the name Grammar School Road South was given to the short stretch near the White Horse. However, the remainder of this very long street was not called North.

Ernie was blind and assisted by a trusty guide dog on his walks between home and the shop. Much of his custom came from people living nearby in the Woodbine Grove prefabs, Hawthorn Avenue, the western end of the Springbank estate, Beech Villas and the northern section of Grammar School Road.


PICTURED: Above -  the applicant would like to replace the existing galvanised steel roller shutter door facing Grammar School Road South with a traditional timber shop front for potential use by separate tenants/occupants. Top right is Ernie Robinson in his Grammar School Road general store during the 1960s. Below - gates leading through to the former Anglian Water depot, now being used by a local business.