Brigg Matters Issue 68 Spring 2023

Brigg In
Pictures
Ken Harrison
An assemblage of
photographs taken during
the pre-Christmas festivities
in Brigg, mainly around the
focal point of activities,
Market Place. Did we catch
you celebrating and having
a good time?
EARLY YEAR’S HAPPENING
There were some unusual
shenanigans in Brigg
during the first week of
January.
The group, ‘Folks
Ken Harrison
Round ‘Er’ performed
a ploughjag in Market
Place - a version of
mummers’ plays that
have their origin in the
Middle Ages. Ploughjags
are confined to eastern
England, particularly to
Lincolnshire. During the
quiet agricultural months of winter, workers
would perform an unscripted play to supplement their income. Following
tradition, ploughjag plays are men only and reflect a simple story of love,
rejection, murder and miraculous resurrection.
A trio of pupils
from the Vale
Academy who offered
readings at Brigg’s annual ‘Holocaust Commemoration’
on Sunday 29th January on Millennium Green.
‘Folks Round ‘Er’ also performed in the Lord Nelson pub.
The event was promoted by Brigg Live Arts.
Wrawby’s Jolly Millers pub would like to thank everyone who
supported their seasonal raffle and auction, an event which
raised an amazing £3,368.60 from its regulars. Prizes were
generously donated by local Wrawby and Brigg businesses.
Headed by Paul and Diane Coult equally-split proceeds were
handed over in January to the chosen charities, MIND
(NE Lincs) and the Humber Rescue team.
The annual
Brigg Town
Council’s
Holocaust
‘MYSTERY LEAD! Partners Donna Stanley and
Craig Cope, from their premises, ‘One Man’s
Junk, Another’s Treasure’, in Springs Parade,
are eager to establish the antiquity of this
inscribed lead sign. In context, 1881 was in
the decade when both Brigg’s Bronze Age
boats and trackway were discovered.
Remembrance
Service which
was held on
Sunday 29th
January on
Millennium
Green.
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