Question 1: What is the date on the front of the old Congregational Church (Lovelle's Estate Agents)?

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1813

Question 2: What is the wording on the front of the card shop between Bengal Spice and Couplands?

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Yours sincerely (from the heart)

Question 3: What are the two jewellers shops called?

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Barnes & Son, A C Pailthorp

Question 4: What is the name of the lingerie shop next to Teasdales?

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Night owl

Question 5: Who called Brigg a 'noisy turbulent town' in the 1790's

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John Wesley

Question 6: How many extra homes are planned for the north of Brigg at the bottom of Grammar School Road near the motorway? To the nearest hundred.

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300

Question 7: Is Lincolnshire the first, second or third largest county in Eng.?

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Second.

Question 8: What is the name of the new bus service between Brigg Wrawby, Barnetby & Kirmington?

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Wolds Villager

Question 9: What is the name of the Vicar of St Johns Church who is leaving to become personal assistant to the Bishop of Lincoln?

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Rev. Michael Silley

Question 10: Who opened Brigg Fair in 2004?

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Bob Champion.

Question 11: In which decade was the parish church built?

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1840's

Question 12: In what year was the Corn Exchange demolished?

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1995

Question 13: What did Coun. Harry Stamp donate to the town in either 1919 or 1921? (I have seen 2 dates for this).

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(Carved by Brigg stonemason Hamlet Bryar)

Question 14: What is Quipps Lane now called?

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Market Lane

Question 15: What is Hetts Lane now called?

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Carey Lane

Question 16: Where was the original of the Dying Gladiator Statue?

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Vatican (William Clark sculpted the replica after he converted his house into an inn)

Question 17: The Church Hall is on the site of which Inn?

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The Lamb

Question 18: Which pub stood where Boots is?

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Red Lion.

Question 19: Which pub stood where the Deli is on Wrawby Street?

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Butchers Arms

Question 20: What is the connection between Queen Street and the film ET?

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Elliott

Question 21: Where was Stringers Temperance Hotel?

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Sorting office.

Question 22: What was the Prep. School building previously?

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Vicarage

Question 23: Which chemist led a mass emigration of 137 people, 70 of who were from Brigg, to New Zealand in June 1859?

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Thomas Ball

Question 24: What weighed 464 stones in 1823?

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Brocklesby Ox

Question 25: Who was the last licensee of the Angel?

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Charles Shrosbree

Question 26: Which year was the Grammar School founded?

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1669

Question 27: In 1674 the Lordship of the Manor of Brigg passed from which family to which other family?

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Tyrwhitts of Kettleby to Elwes family

Question 28: What did a cordwainer do for a living?

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Make shoes.

Question 29: What was let to David Tong of the White Horse in 1856 for £56 10s for 3 years (by the Lord of the Manor)?

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Market tolls

Question 30: What sort of business did James Hart carry on the north side of Bridge St in the 1840's to 1870's

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Iron works (Ancholme Iron Works, Foundry Lane)

Question 31: Who was postmaster in Brigg for 53 years from 1846 to 1899? (whose surname can still be seen on a Brigg wall)

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William Cressey

Question 32: In what month was the Statute Fair held?

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May

Question 33: On what street was the "Hammer in Hand"?

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Elwes Street

Question 34: According to Dr Henthorn, in what century was a stone bridge first built in Brigg?

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14th c

Question 35: Where was the Hope Inn?

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Market Place (next the Woolpack)

Question 36: What was 14.78m (48'6") long in 1866 but isn't now?

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Brigg boat. (Site of gasworks, room for 26 kneeling and 2 standing)

Question 37: What was the name of the posting inn which stood next to the Angel?

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White Lion.

Question 38: What was the name of the chap from Saxby who sang Brigg Fair in 1905/6 and who has been described as "one of the greatest of English Folk Singers"?

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Joseph Taylor

Question 39: Who was the Australian who recorded him singing it in 1908?

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Percy Grainger

Question 40: Who composed the orchestral rhapsody "Brigg Fair"? (It was first recorded in London with Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, and the old chap was there to listen)

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Frederick Delius

Question 41: In which city was Frederick Delius born?

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Bradford

Question 42: What is the name of the shop between Barnes Jewellers and Mundeys Butchers?

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The Soft Touch

Question 43: What two archaeological discoveries were made in Brigg in 1884?

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Ancient causeway and Bronze age plank boat known as the Brigg Raft.

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