BRIGG STREET WHICH HAS SEEN MAJOR CHANGES OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS

More than 50 years divide these 'Then & Now' pictures of a Brigg street which has seen many changes.
Forrester Street, off Bridge Street, was originally Forester Street. But more about that change later...
Whelpton's garage (car sales and repairs/servicing) occupied a prime site on Forester Street for many decades. Following its demolition, town houses were constructed on the site.
On the far left of the early 1970s view, part of an adjoining property can been seen (then Ike Tutty's barber's shop, later housing a photographic business and latterly being allied to Sherwood's cycles).
This building and the former cycle shop next door (not pictured here) were demolished fairly recently, with planning permission granted for town houses and a small retail unit to be erected in their place.
All that remains of the 1970s scene is the white-painted house in the distance, on adjoining Engine Street.
Local historian Josie Webb, of the BASH group, tells us that Forester Street got its its name from The Forester Society which had its meetings in a hall on this street, where Whelpton's business was later located.
Josie adds: "Forester Street was also called Victoria Street after the Victoria Foundry (ironworks) which was down at the bottom of the street, possibly on the land behind where that white house is.
"There was also little shops down there; Moulds sweet shop was one which comes to mind, and as you know a lot of families lived down there. I will have a look for any other info."

 

Here's an archive picture showing how Whelpton's car showroom used to look in the early 1970s; it was on the corner where Forester Street met Bridge Street.
Street signage near Bridge Street has long carried the wording Forrester Street (rather than Forester).
Similarly, Cary Lane was originally Carey Lane.
And Chapel Way may have been intended to be Chappell Way when this cul-de-sac housing development was added in the 1980s.
Canon Roger Chappell was a long-serving Vicar, based at St John's Church. His name was pronounced Chapelle or sometimes the French-style Shapelle.
Other streets in the this part of the town, added in the 1950 and 1960s, had already been called Burgess Road (after Canon Burgess, Church of England) and O'Hanlon Avenue (after Father O'Hanlon, the Roman Catholic priest).