The Lincolnshire Times Newspaper

2009 dec 11

The December BASH meeting, at The Brigg & District Servicemen's Club was a talk by Nigel Fisher on "The Lincolnshire Times Newspaper 1858 - 1985".

This fascinating presentation told how the Lincolnshire Times was launched on Valentines Day, 14 February 1857 (making 1858 its first full year) and continued until 26 July 1985, producing 4,472 issues over the 128 years. He said that the paper moved premises once, from 8 Market place, Brigg (now demolished) to 57 Wrawby Street, Brigg.

Nigel described his time working for the paper from January 1980 until January 1984, and after this, continuing to contribute cricket coverage, on a freelance basis, until the paper closed. He noted some of the main characters of the paper's later period including: Edward (Ted) Dodd, Cliff Hatley, Joan Dobbs, Peter Bell and Bryan Robins.

l2r: Denise Torpey (BASH committee), Nigel Fisher (Speaker), Chris Witty (BASH committee) and Pat Parkinson (BASH committee).

Also of great interest was Nigel's collection (mainly 1979 to 1984) of copies of the paper, some of which were eagerly passed around the audience.

This was an excellent BASH event enjoyed by all.

The next BASH event, on Tuesday 5th Jan 2010, is "Sing to Win" with Elly Dolan. This is a patriotic WWII show, featuring all the old songs that helped to win the war, plus original radio broadcasts from the war years.

- by Phil Allen, BASH