Tuesday, July 22, 2014

21st CENTURY REFURBISHMENT OF BRIGG HISTORY

Brigg Town Council is meeting the cost of refurbishing information boards with historic significance.
The Brigg Urban District Council Toll Boards, sited on the gable end of the Nelthorpe Arms and on the outside wall of the China Garden takeaway at the junction of Queen Street/Wrawby Street, will be refurbished at a cost of £360.
The  three historic maps, sited on the exterior wall of the Tourist Information Centre, in College Yard and on the outside wall of the China Garden will be refurbished, including the printing of new maps on acrylic, at a cost of £128 each.

2 comments:

Ken Harrison said...

I very much hope it's much more than just a refurbishment.....

The present maps are interesting to a limited extent, but much of Brigg's history is omitted - no mention, for example, of the Gunpowder Plot...no mention of the Royalist entrenchments during the Civil War...no mention of Brgg being a medieval planned new town; no mention of the likelihood of a Bronze Age about/near the old Lidl's car-park; no mention of prehistoric animal bone relics in the Ancholme.......and so on.
I do hope that the TC have checked with the history buffs about the place.......

Ken Harrison said...

I very much hope it's much more than just a refurbishment.....

The present maps are interesting to a limited extent, but much of Brigg's history is omitted - no mention, for example, of the Gunpowder Plot...no mention of the Royalist entrenchments during the Civil War...no mention of Brgg being a medieval planned new town; no mention of the likelihood of a Bronze Age about/near the old Lidl's car-park; no mention of prehistoric animal bone relics in the Ancholme.......and so on.
I do hope that the TC have checked with the history buffs about the place.......