When Brigg celebrates the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in June 2022, the milestone will have added significance for one housing development in the town and its residents.
Elizabeth Court was constructed on the northern edge of the Springbank estate by Brigg Urban District Council in the 1950s - the decade when the Queen became our reigning monarch and heralding the start of a second Elizabethan era.
The UDC provided 20-or-so properties, some looking towards open fields and others round the corner facing homes on Northern Avenue.
After the UDC was abolished by local government re-organisation in 1973/4, the local housing stock passed to newly-created Glanford Borough Council.
North Lincolnshire Council took over social housing provision in 1996.
Landlord responsibilities for the district's housing stock following Right to Buy sell-offs to interested long-serving tenants, later passed to North Lincolnshire Homes and then to Ongo.
Brigg Blog recently visited Elizabeth Court to picture some of the properties and was pleased to see an original nameplate from the 1950s still in place and that Brigg Urban District Council's name (in its favoured Gothic script) is still legible 48 years after this authority was swept away.
Elizabeth Court residents' views of the Lincolnshire countryside to the north altered in 1977 when the M180 was constructed close by - this section being known locally as the Brigg By-pass. It took a great deal of heavy traffic off the A18 through Wrawby Road and town centre streets.
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