Hugh Pigott (1921-1992)
BORN near Brigg, Hugh Geoffrey Pigott moved to Grantham in 1956 to become proprietor of Bailey & Ambler estate agents, of St Peter’s Hill, and Norman Harcourt auctioneers of Wide Westgate.
Famed for his extremely loud voice while selling produce and livestock in Westgate on market days and the adjacent cattle market, he attracted many visitors who just went along for the spectacle.
He moved his business to Westgate House in 1973 when he established Bailey-Ambler International, a company specialising in the sale of farms and hotels in Portugal.
Hugh was for many years a member of Grantham Round Table and Rotary Club and his wife, Betty, also did much good work around the town as a leading light in the Business & Professional Club and the Women’s Royal Voluntary Association.
At 6ft 4in and never seen in public without his trademark trilby hat, Mr Pigott was a regular sight in the town for more than three-and-a hal- decades.
In his later years, he became a keen allotment gardener, renting no fewer than 13 separate plots simultaneously on California Gardens, off Maltings Lane, close to his Cliffe Road home at Gonerby Hill Foot.
He died at Grantham Hospital in March 1992.
Compiled with the help of Nick Pigott
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