LIVE ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIGG ON NEW YEAR'S EVE

Live entertainment will be on offer at some licensed premises in Brigg & district on New Year's Eve (Friday, December 31).
Ska and soul band Special Bru will be performing at Brigg & District Servicemen's Club, Coney Court, on New Year's Eve (cover charge applies - no payment on the door).
The Britannia Inn, on Wrawby Street, will have drag queen DJ and performer Cherry Pops centre stage on New Year's Eve. People are being advised to get there ahead of 7pm to get a seat.

The Woolpack, in the Market Place, has a karaoke disco on New Year’s Eve.
Black Orchid, a rock & pop covers band (pictured above during an earlier local performance) will be playing at the Sutton Arms, Scawby, on Friday evening.
It will be interesting to see if the traditional New Year's Eve linking of hands and singing a verse or two of Auld Lang Syne features tonight as the clock on top of the Buttercross ticks past midnight.
'First footing' - visiting neighbouring households carrying a lump of coal to bring good luck - is a once-common tradition in Brigg which has declined in line with 'real' fires, although some Brigg properties still have these.
In time for the New Year, Ken Harrison, of Brigg Matters Magazine, has kindly sent us a topical picture (below) he took recently of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, London ..."home to the Prime Meridian and GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)" he explains.
It is located in Greenwich Park, next to the Planetarium and overlooking the National Maritime Museum.
The ball on the tower was once vital for mariners aboard vessels on the very busy River Thames, being raised and lowered at a set time each day so they could set their clocks accurately and later use this to accurately fix their position at sea via longitude. The first very accurate timepiece was invented by John Harrison, who once lived at Barrow-on-Humber, North Lincolnshire. It helped to revolutionise nautical navigation. The discovery of a very valuable John Harrison timepiece provided the plot for one of the most famous episodes of TV comedy Only Fools And Horses. It turned up, centuries later, in Del Boy's Peckham lock-up and made him and brother Rodney Trotter multi-millionaires. Lovely, jubbly!