HAPPY MEMORIES OF PAST NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS IN BRIGG

Brigg is well-served by licensed premises where people will be meeting up on New Year's Eve to herald the arrival of 2022.
However, the town has lost some venues which were once popular meeting places either side of Christmas.
Many of us have happy memories of New Year's Eve sessions at the Nelthorpe Arms, particularly when long-serving mine hosts Myles and Mary Scanlon ran the Bridge Street hostelry with its 'real' fire in the bar and jukebox.
The large function room at the Ancholme Inn, on Grammar School Road, accommodated many December celebrations for Brigg clubs and organisations.
Some offices in Brigg with relatively few people on the payroll would meet up in the old lounge at the back of the Queens Arms, on Wrawby Street. This was before the pub was given an open plan layout which resulted in three rooms becoming one.
The Brocklesby Ox pub, on Bridge Street, saw many events in December, culminating New Year celebrations.
The Ancholme and 'Brock Ox' have both been demolished with housing taking their place; the Nelthorpe Arms has been converted into residential accommodation; the former Queens Arms, Fish Inn (and later Vines) building is still evident alongside the A18 but is no longer operating as a restaurant.
Many major functions in December were hosted in the cavernous Brigg Corn Exchange and also in the Ballroom of the nearby Angel Hotel. Layne's Garage (once employing dozens of people) and Spring's riverside preserves factory (several hundred) held festive socials at these venues.
Most Brigg businesses and factories used to have December social events years ago with some employees also visiting town centre pubs in groups over the festive season, particularly after leaving work for the last time before Christmas.

PICTURED: Some of the people who attended a ball at Brigg Corn Exchange in the mid-1960s - photographed from the stage.