Friday, August 26, 2016

REVEALED - THE 30+ PUBS OF OLD BRIGG

 

FROM JOSIE WEBB, CHAIRMAN, BRIGG AMATEUR SOCIAL HISTORIANS (BASH)

Just read your Brigg Blog re. The Lost Pubs of Brigg. There has been a slow decline over the last 130 years. In the mid-1800s, we had over 30.

Starting in Bridge Street...
The Brocklesby Ox
The Yarborough Hunt
The Bricklayers Arms
The Nelthorpe Arms [formely The Greyhound]
The White Hart

Into the Market Place...
The Ancholme Tavern
The Woolpack
The Hope Inn, 
The Moon and Stars
Bacchus and Tun
The Ship Inn
The Lion
The Angel
The Lord Nelson 
Hammer in Hand [Elwes Street]

Now onto Bigby Street...
The Dying Gladiator
Coach and Horses
The Lamb Inn
King William IV
The Railway Inn [Albert Street]

Along Wrawby Street...
The Britannia Inn
The Queen's Arms
The White Horse
The Rose and Crown
The Butchers Arms
The Red Lion
The Black Bull
The Cross Keys [in Little Butchery].

And also temperance watering holes...
The Waverly
Stringers
Hunters 

Plus three breweries...
Tadcaster Tower
Sergeants
Britannia [Sutton Bean]

Brigg Blog's thanks are extended to Josie for taking the time and trouble to compile such an interesting list. More than 30 watering holes and three breweries of our own. Wow!

PICTURED ABOVE: How Brigg town centre looked in the 1830s.

2 comments:

Paul C said...

Crikey!

Amazed the people in the picture can stand up straight.

Ken Harrison said...

True..with all those pubs and everybody standing, it questions the term 'pub crawl'.
In those days, the ale was stronger..