WELL-KNOWN BRIGG GROUP TO RESUME OPERATIONS AFTER GAP OF ALMOST TWO YEARS

Many people in Brigg will be very pleased that one of the best-known groups in the town is to resume operations after a lengthy break resulting from the Covid emergency.
Brigg Amateur Social Historians - more widely known as BASH - will be re-starting its regular free-to-attend monthly meetings featuring talks on a wide range of topics.
Josie Webb, one of the founders, will present the initial talk following this break at Brigg & District Servicemen's Club, Coney Court, on Tuesday, February 1, 2022.
Into The Blue Skies will be about local man Ken Cammack and the Halifax plane in which he flew as a rear gunner during World War 2. 

The famous Halifax, called Friday 13th, flew 128 'ops' and came through unscathed. Ken's working life before and after the conflict was on the weighbridge at Brigg Sugar Factory.
Josie tells Brigg Blog she was booked to present this talk in May 2020. However, due to the Covid emergency, it had to be cancelled.
Her presentation in February will be illustrated with many photos from Ken's war years; she has his 'on ops' memories. Ken was her uncle who passed away in May 2019, aged 94.
When BASH resumes its own operations, there will be no buffet provided "due to recent circumstances." However, the raffles will continue.
As ever, admission will be free; those interested in attending can just turn up on the night.
Josie adds that BASH has not hosted meetings since March 2020, adding: "Hopefully we can now start to get back to some normality at last."
The committee, chaired by Pat Parkinson, is unchanged.
Pictured above: Josie Webb (left) with Diane Brian and Brian Denison (BASH committee member) in March 2015, when Diane gave a talk at the Servicemen's Club called Asleep in the Deep about her great-grandfather, John Bennett, who formed a shipping company.
Pictured below: Josie Webb and Pat Parkinson (right) with Dick Neall, a member of the audience, in March 2010 when Josie gave an illustrated talk entitled A Nostalgic Journey Around Brigg. Archive picture credits: Brigg Amateur Social Historians.