WHEEL TO TURN FULL CIRCLE IN BRIGG WITH WILDFLOWERS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS

Colourful wildflowers will be springing up at various locations in Brigg as part of a 'green' environmental project by the Town Council which will give a helping hand to pollinating insects.
During the authority's monthly meeting, held on Tuesday (July 26), seeding was agreed for:

• Areas of the Woodbine Park play area between South View Avenue and Brigg Town Football Club's ground off Hawthorn Avenue.
• The steep bank bordering the Davy Memorial playing field off Bigby Road.
• One of the boundaries of the Donkey Park children's play area near Atherton Way.
• Parts of the Sir John Nelthorpe Upper School, Grammar School Road.

Coun Rob Waltham told fellow councillors he regarded this as a community project.
He suggested up to £250 should be set aside for wildflower seeding.
Brigg Blog has been suggesting for many years that the steep grassed-over bank adjoining the Davy field would be ideal for wildflowers.
Other people of a certain age will also remember in the 1960s when scores of butterflies, belonging to many species, made this strip their haven, as did bees.
The bank's status back then might be described as overgrown.
Due to Brigg Urban District Council's reluctance to send in the cutting crews, 'Mother Nature' took full advantage and provided an abundance of wildflowers - at no cost to the public purse!
So when flowers again dot the bank it will be a nostalgic scene, and another example of the wheel turning full circle in Brigg.
For when the old wooden crossing gates clanked shut in the 1960s and the signals were pulled off for an approaching train, games of football halted on the Davy Field as young trainspotters waited to see if a heavily-rusted surviving steam loco was going to appear.
There would be groans if a 'dirty diesel' came into view instead - often a Brush Type 2, an English Electric Co-Co Type 3 or a passsenger-carrying multiple unit.
Steam locos 'spotted' at the time were mostly WD Austerity 2-8-0s, all-purpose B1 4-6-0s or BR 9F 2-10-0s.
Brigg UDC's reluctance to cut grass on public open space in the 1960s also resulted in wildflowers taking root on what was then known as the Donkey Field, adjoining the Newlands estate.