TWO 'GREEN' BENEFITS ON ONE SITE IN BRIGG

 

One of the best-known green-grassed public open spaces in Brigg was created decades ago to provide a safe play area for local youngsters. However, the Davy Memorial Field - between Kings Avenue and Bigby Road - also has another 'green' function.
Yesterday afternoon (Sunday, August 22) it was rather surprising hat no children were using the varied play equipment or enjoying a football kick-about using the goalposts provided.
However, the tranquil scene was certainly being enjoyed by many butterflies, bees and other insects which had been attracted by the two extensive, sweet-smelling and long-established buddleia bushes. Buddleia is also known as the Butterfly Bush.
We visited the park to check whether the table tennis table, situated close to Kings Avenue, had been relocated elsewhere on the field, in line with a recent decision from Brigg Town Council.
The switch is still pending but, once undertaken, this corner of the park will continue to be enjoyed by insects over the coming weeks. Any enthusiastic noise resulting from 'ping pong' will have gone.
Back in the 1960s when Brigg Town Council operated the Davy field, it rarely, if ever, cut the steep bank on the perimeter near the level crossing, resulting in an abundance of wild flowers and weeds which attracted dozens of colourful butterflies, bees and other insects.
Another boost for pollinating winged insects in Brigg this Spring and Summer has come on the extensive York Road area of public open space - known locally as York Road Field.
Three large circular areas having been planted with dozens of saplings, and these spaces have not been subject to periodic grass cutting by the contractor's mowers, so wild flowers have established themselves in the gaps between the young trees of the future.