BRIGG SCHOOL CHAMPIONS ANNOUNCED

Brigg Blog was interested to see the winner of the inter-house championship announced through social media by Sir John Nelthorpe School.
This was done on the final day of the summer term and the 2021/22 educational year.
Pelham secured the house championship with 324 points, the SJN PE Department revealed - just three more than Taylor in a close-run finish.
Eccles managed 299, with Lardelli on 275.
These house names relate to people who, in the past, contributed a great deal to secondary education in Brigg.
Some will be familiar to ex-pupils of Brigg Grammar and Brigg Girls' High which educated youngsters in the local era of the 11-plus selective exam.
The Sir John Nelthorpe comprehensive launched in 1976 when Humberside County Council was the education authority.
SJN took over the Grammar School Road and Wrawby Road buildings and their adjacent playing fields.
The Grammar and High establishments had their own houses which competed annually in championships.
At the former, boys were allocated places according to where they lived.
Ancholme - Brigg residents only; Nelthorpe - Scawby, Hibaldstow and villages to the south towards Lincoln; Sheffield - Broughton, Scunthorpe and other villages to the west of Brigg; Yarborough - Wrawby and settlements north-east as far as Keelby; School House - on-site resident boarding pupils.
A revision was undertaken in the early 1970s to equate numbers, with Scawby and Hibaldstow being attached to Ancholme.
Brigg Blog was pleased to see Sir John Nelthorpe School's inter-house cricket progamme being completed recently, with games on the school playing field and also at Brigg Recreation Ground.
In the 1960s, Brigg Rec was the venue for Brigg County Primary School's annual sports day and also hosted house football matches, as no sports field was included when this seat of learning opened in 1929.
Each pupil was required to carry a chair down to the Rec - lined up in neat rows to be used by parents and VIP guests - and then take them back to school once sports day was over.
Houses back then included Pelham, Carey, Sutton and Elwes.
Although today North Lincolnshire Council provides plush changing rooms (with showers) for sports players using the Rec, footballers and cricketers in the late 1960s and early 1970s used former outbuildings acquired by Brigg Urban District Council when it bought Woodbine Farm and converted it into a sports venue.
There was one outside tap nearby where mud could be washed off boots.
How times change... in this case, for the better!

PICTURED: Some views from sports day 2022 at Sir John Nelthorpe School (PE Dept credit) and pupils in race action many decades ago.