ALDI STORE IN BRIGG HAS AN ANNIVERSARY AHEAD

The Aldi store in Brigg has an anniversary coming up this Saturday.
The international discount retailer opened its purpose-built premises off Bridge Street on September 24, 2020.
Almost 30 local jobs were created two years ago, and our local store manager said on the opening day: “It’s been a wonderful morning here at the opening of Aldi Brigg. It was lovely to welcome our new customers into store and I look forward to meeting more of the community in the coming weeks."
The new store immediately proved popular and some of us who visited on the first day have been returning regularly ever since.
A brand of bottled real ale we took a liking to a couple of years ago has only increased 10p since then...to £1-19.
Similarly-priced bargain bottles are available from Lidl, on Atherton Way.
Aldi staff are pictured above on the day the Brigg store launched to the shopping public two years ago.

VACANCIES: The Vale Academy, on Atherton Way, Brigg. is seeking a drum tutor. The closing date for applications is September 26. View further details here...
There is also a vacancy for a community well-being activator to be based at North Lincolnshire Council's Angel building in Brigg Market Place - October 4 being the closing date. View details here...

SEASONAL SIGNS: Half a dozen house martins were recently observed flying above Grammar School Road, Brigg, near The Garden fish & chip shop. Usually, these migratory birds would have set off to winter in Africa well before the onset of autumn. Perhaps the hot and generally dry summer just experienced is a factor, and also in the amount of green algae/weed lingering on the surface of the Old River Ancholme and in the somewhat early shedding of leaves by some trees across Brigg. Weather forecasters regard September 1 as the start date for autumn, but we stick with what we were taught in geography lessons at school and stick with the Autumn Equinox, three weeks later.

TIMELY: It was interesting to see a number of the people assembled in Brigg Market Place for Sunday's candlelit vigil in memory of The Queen glancing up to take time checks from the clock in the tower on top of the Buttercross as 8pm drew near. Mobile phones - now often used for time-checks - had been switched off prior to the solemn ceremony. We still glance up at the Buttercross clock while in the town centre, as we have done for decades. But how many members of the younger generation do likewise today?

ON THE BALL: Brigg Town Football Club's licensed Hawthorns venue offers live music gigs from time to time and has booked The Gas Band to appear on Saturday, October 8, from 8pm.

CHILLING MEMORIES: How many Brigg Blog followers (now pensioners) remember being 'encouraged' to take September swims in the unheated pool at Brigg Grammar School in the 1960s when the only warmth added to the water came from the rays of the sun, if it happened to put in an appearance? To borrow a phrase from seaside resort Skegness - it was no bracing! Pool heating was finally installed in 1969 when the historic seat of learning marked the 300th anniversary of its foundation by Sir John Nelthorpe. A good friend of ours used to wonder what all the fuss was about if Brigg Grammar's unheated pool came up in conversation; he often opted to swim in the River Ancholme as a Brigg boy in the 1950s and enjoyed the experience - later joining the Royal Navy. Please don't be tempted to follow his example.

 

The Buttercross clock in Brigg Market Place as 8pm drew near on Sunday and townsfolk took part in the Candlelit Vigil.

 

Fallen leaves at East Park a couple of days ago.