WELL-KNOWN BRIGG BUILDING CELEBRATES ONE ANNIVERSARY WITH ANOTHER COMING UP

Brigg Blog reported the sale of one of the best-known buildings in the town centre 10 years ago.
We revealed in mid-August 2012 that North Lincolnshire Council had sold 7 Market Place (on the corner of Cary Lane).
A former Georgian property which was much later converted to office use, it had been declared surplus to requirements by the local authority 10 years ago and placed on the market.
"The guide price was £150,000 for the grade two listed property in Brigg Conservation Area," we reported at the time.
"The council has confirmed the sale took place earlier this month but disclosed no further details."
Dating back to the early 18th century, No 7 began as a town house of distinction and was owned for many years by the Elwes family (Lords of the Manor).
In the early 20th century it belonged to well-known GP Dr W. S. Frith, later having Gray's Cafe & Snack Bar on the ground floor.
Subsequently, it became local council offices in the era of the Glanford authority, the headquarters of the South Humber Business Advice Centre, SoHBAC (helping to create new jobs) and the Brigg HQ of Ian Cawsey MP, prior to being acquired by local company GSA Environmental.
A few months ago we noted No 7 had been given "a bit of tender loving care" in terms of repainting.
Later this year there will be another anniversary - 70 years since No 7 was added to the register of listed buildings on October 10, 1952.
That took place while Brigg Urban District Council and Lindsey County Council were providing local government.
Glanford Borough Council, created in 1974, deserves credit for refurbishing No 7.
Local journalist Edward (Ted) Dodd noted with regret in his book Brigg (published in the early 1970s) that No 7 had been allowed to become "run down" and was "due for demolition" with plans to erect new offices on the site.
Brigg UDC was considering this possibility but Ted felt that, with investment, No 7 "could still be an attractive feature of the Market Place."
Thankfully, it survived, received a cash injection and is still looking good today - being one of many distinctive buildings within the Market Place.
Ted worked for the Lincolnshire Times newspaper and could well remember the fate of the building next to No 7, which was demolished in the early 1950s to make a wider access to Cary Lane, particularly for buses and lorries, when the A18 still ran through the Market Place.

Josie Webb, of Brigg Amateur Social Historians, read our post this morning and has kindly supplied the following additional information...
From the 1870s it was Dr Paterson's home and surgery; my Great Grandad, George William Cammack, worked for Dr Patterson as groom and driver.
He lived with his six children at 1 Cary Lane.
In July 1881 he was grooming one of the horses when the stable door blew to, scaring the horse. His hind legs kicked out, knocking George to the ground and trampling on him, crushing his chest and stomach - killing him instantly.
In the 1890s it became Dr Russell's home and surgery, and in the 1920s Dr Frith took over the practice until the late 1940s.
So it was a doctor's for almost 80 years.
It is a lovely late Georgian building and I'm pleased it is still in use.

PICTURED: Above - No 7 Market Place as it looked in the 1960s (left), and in June 2022 while scaffolding was in place during repainting. Below - a Ford Anglia parked outside No 7 in the early 1970s.