MEMORIES & PICTURES SHOWING BRIGG PUB DECADES AGO COME ALL THE WAY FROM EGYPT

Brigg Blog has just been contacted by a man in Egypt who has shared memories and pictures of the town's Ancholme Inn, on Grammar School Road.
He made two visits to our area, alongside other young men from his country, more than 50 years ago - helping to fund the trip by working at the Spring & Co jam-making factory overlooking the Old River Ancholme.
He approached Brigg Blog in the hope that we might be able to put him in contact with the family which ran the Ancholme Inn at the time.
As the pictures seen here show, he and his friends from Egypt got to know this family well.
We think we can remember the family's surname, but are now hoping Brigg Blog followers can confirm this, and also provide information about them for the benefit of Sherif Atalla who kindly emailed through these images.
The daughter of 'mine hosts' at the Ancholme Inn in 1969/70 when he visited was Pamela (seen here).
Our contact tells us he has wonderful memories of the pub.
"Three or four Egyptian students, including myself, were spending summer holidays at Brigg, in 1969, then once again the following summer," he explains."
He says they really loved "this little town."
He will never forget the kindness and generosity of "this great family" which ran the Ancholme Inn.
If you can help Sherif Atalla with information, please get in touch with Brigg Blog and we will forward it to him by email.
The Ancholme Inn was built in the early 1960s, chiefly to serve the nearby Springbank housing estate.
This pub was eventually demolished and its site, and the large car park, later used to build a new housing development.
The pictures kindly shared by Sherif Atalla remind us that this pub had a large function room at the back.
Among those pictured is Coun Bryan Robins who was the chairman of Brigg Urban District Council in the late 1960s.
He was staff photographer with the Lincolnshire Times newspaper at 57 Wrawby Street and it is highly likely that an article or articles, about the town's summer visitors from Egypt appeared in this weekly publication. Bryan is seen, wearing his chain of office, with his mother, Mary.
Also pictured performing is a group of musicians it would be nice to identify, and a distant view of Glebe Road School (since demolished).
We think it safe to assume that the interesting images seen here are being published for the first time.