APP-T ALES TO CELEBRATE WETHERSPOON'S BRIGG ANNIVERSARY THIS MONTH

Copper-coloured ales will very suitable and App-t at Wetherspoon's popular White Horse pub & restaurant in Brigg town centre later this month.
That's because it will soon be SEVEN YEARS since the hospitality sector giant reopened the historic hostelry after spending many months transforming the premises on Wrawby Street.
70th anniversaries are known Platinum, 60th are Diamond, 50th are Golden, 25th are Silver and seven-year milestones are known as Copper.
Wetherspoon's White Horse opened for business on January 27, 2015. They say that time flies, but can it really be seven years?
Wetherspoon's (established as a company in 1979) has stocked many copper-coloured real ales at its wide portfolio of pubs across the UK.
We'll be watching next week to see how many with this hue are available on the pumps at our local outlet.
Wetherspoon's approached Brigg Blog for some archive images of the town while the builders were busy preparing the White Horse in late 2014, and some of them were framed and displayed when the premises first opened. Company bosses kindly invited us down for a look in January 2015.
The White Horse building dates back to the 18th century and has had various owners, including Brigg's Sutton, Bean Brewery and Ward's of Sheffield.
Sutton, Bean, which had a brewery on the other side of Wrawby Street near the Britannia Inn, closed in 1924 when its many hostelries across the district were either sold to tenants or (in most cases) snapped up by other hospitality companies.

PICTURED: Above - a delivery lorry outside the White Horse in January 2022. Note the reference to Wetherspoon's 'app' which an increasing number of customers use to place food & drink orders (via their mobile phones) from their tables without having to visit the bar. Below - picture of staff members from 2015 taken by Ken Harrison, of Brigg Matters magazine, and a reminder of how the White Horse looked before it was acquired by Wetherspoon's.