BRIGG CELEBRATION IN COMPANY'S DIAMOND JUBILEE YEAR

It's more than 50 years since well-known company Layne's closed in Brigg.
With showrooms and repair & servicing facilities on Bigby Street and adjoining Elwes Street, the motor dealer came to the end of the road in terms of local operations in 1971.
It also established bases in Scunthorpe, Crowle and Market Rasen.
Layne's pictures turn up online from time to time, and Tony Lawton recently emailed Brigg Blog with this one from 1947 which we can't recall seeing previously.
Among employees featured is his uncle Gerald Tyson (fourth from the left on the second to back row) who worked at the Scunthorpe garage after the Second World War.
The picture appears to have been taken during a Christmas event hosted in Brigg at the Angel Hotel Ballroom.
A modern town house on Bigby Street today, near the Dying Gladiator beer garden, carries an inscription 'G.H.L. 1914" in the brickwork.
The lettering relates to George Henry Layne, founder of the business, and this date is when he established the company here.
For some years, and prior to the housing development, the converted former Layne's showrooms hosted Brigg Snooker Club.
George Henry Layne started a cycle repair business at Winterton in 1887, later moving to Brigg.
Always keen to tap into new markets, he started making bikes, using the slogan Ride Glanford Cycles and Be Happy.
A small factory was established behind the Bigby Street premises, originally employing six men.
In the early 1900s he also began selling well-known brands of motorcycle before deciding to build his own engine-powered Glanford machines.
The next step was selling and servicing cars and lorries.
When the Diamond Jubilee was marked in 1947, Layne's occupied a very large site in Brigg and employed 65 people here.

Layne's showrooms in 1947 - the company's Diamond Jubilee year.

The G.H.L 1914 inscription built into the brickwork of a domestic property on Bigby Street.

A picture of Layne's thought to have been taken soon after the move to Bigby Street in 1914.

Brigg Snooker Club occupied the former Layne's showroom for some years,