THIS WILL BE A MEMORABLE YEAR FOR MARKETS IN BRIGG INCLUDING A JUBILEE SPECIAL

Additional Brigg Markets have been confirmed throughout 2022, including a special one to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
The town's traditional Thursday and Saturday stall-based events and monthly Farmers' Markets will be supplemented by a range of others, starting with a Love Brigg Arts Crafts & Antiques Market tomorrow - Saturday, February 12 - with more of these to follow on the second Saturday each month through to December.
In addition, there will be Totally Locally Indie Markets in the town centre every third Saturday of the month in 2022, beginning on February 19.
Farmers' Markets (organised by North Lincolnshire Council) will take place on the fourth Saturday of the month - the next being on February 26.
A special Jubilee Market is being arranged for Saturday, June 4 and will feature the welcome return of an old Brigg favourite - the Blessing of the Pumps in which the two surviving/preserved cast iron water pumps will be garlanded with flowers amid much dancing and ceremony.
These pumps (long disused) supplied safe-to-drink water to people living within the town centre. Brigg did not receive piped supplies until the mid-19th century, prior to which there had been many concerns about public health and disease.
A royal Brigg market charter was granted in the early 13th century.
This followed a written reference in 1203 to “punt de Glanford”  - suggesting the existence of an initial bridge.
Prior to this being constructed, shoppers or people with produce to sell who lived to the west of the River Ancholme had to ford the still-tidal waterway not far from where the White Hart pub is now located.
There is an archive reference from 1183 to Brigg having been “established as a town” by then, but only a few dwellings existed near what is now the Market Place.
The invading Normans, from France, who took control of England, held a Domesday Book survey of land and property in 1086 which included references to Glandham and Glantham before the initial bridge was built.
'Brigg' was later joined with Glanford (various spellings) as the name of the growing town.
In 1313 it was reported to King Edward I that “men and cattle passing over Glaunford Brigg in the time of such flouds were seldom out of danger.”
The name 'Glanford Brigg' was still in use in official documents and maps throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th.
Market traders and shoppers were able to use a replacement Ancholme bridge erected circa 1665.
Crossing the river was made much easier in 1828 with the completion of the County Bridge (still evident today and with its 200th anniversary not far away).
Some people in Brigg still miss the annual Charity Markets held in the latter decades of the last century, which attracted lots of bargain-hunting shoppers. Stalls used to be erected in the Market Place and along Cary Lane.
The charity event held in mid-July 1985 - a typical example - had more than 70 stalls. They featured craft items, bric-a-brac, second-hand clothing and much more.
Local groups and organisations hired stalls to sell donated items donated by members and raise much-needed funds.
Brigg Farmers' Market was launched by North Lincolnshire Council in June 2000 - the initial one receiving a VIP visit from actor John Savident, who starred as Coronation Street butcher Fred Elliott, watched by millions of people on TV.
He sampled some of the Lincolnshire food on offer and judged a best local produce competition.

The pictures below show the general Thursday market held in Brigg two days ago on February 10, 2022.