Brandon Heritage

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  • Local Charities Day

    Local Charities Day Today we welcomed the Rt. Hon. Matt Hancock (Member of Parliament for West Suffolk), Gary Rowe (Groundwork), Mark Rafferty (Tesco) and Sam Vare (Tesco) as part of the national ‘Local Charities Day’.  Mr Hancock is the Minister of State for Digital and Culture, and was promoting his department sponsored day.  He was…

  • ‘Towler Cup’ returns to Brandon

    Another piece of Brandon heritage returns to the town – the Towler Cup Brandon Heritage Centre is pleased to be in receipt of the ‘Towler Cup’ after it was found in the effects of the late Reggie Edwards and then gifted to the centre.  We are also very fortunate to receive the original box the…

  • GOOD NEWS!!!

    GOOD NEWS … £4,000 grant awarded to Brandon Heritage Centre Brandon Heritage Centre is delighted to announce that, following the public vote in Brandon’s Tesco throughout September and October, the centre has been awarded a grant of £4,000. The centre’s project, ‘New flint and forest exhibits’, finished first in the vote. The money for the…

  • PASSCHENDAELE 1917 – John Basham

    PASSCHENDAELE 1917 As we approach Remembrance Day, we bring you this article from John Basham, who has shared with us his research into Passchendaele, 1917 … There are few more evocative images of the first world war than those columns of weary, heavily laden men trudging in single file along a duckboard path through a…

  • Dedication

    Dedication to two founding ‘fathers’ of Brandon Heritage Centre Way back in 1991 Brandon Heritage Centre opened its doors to its first visitor.  However the hard work of getting the centre in place took many years, even in the 1970s discussions were being had about putting in place a facility to bring together and highlight…

  • Happy Birthday Community Centre!

    One of the joys of volunteering at Brandon Heritage Centre is that you never know who will walk through the door next.  Sometimes it is someone looking for information about their family or project, or someone who is simply intrigued as to what is in the centre.  Then there are those who bring artifacts or…

  • We were on TV news!

    Did you see us on Anglia TV news?  Well here’s the clip featuring our very own Victor Lukaniuk and Hugh Lodge, along with Nick Dickson from Breaking New Ground.

  • YAY! We have flint panels!

    William Carter’s flint panels William Carter created a series of flint panels for the benefit of the Brandon community.  William died in 1904, so you can get an idea of how old these are now, and more than that – they are very fine examples of how flint can be manipulated and made into art. …

  • Diss museum visit

    Last weekend we visited Mildenhall museum and yesterday saw the team travel to Diss for a similar fact finding tour of a local museum similar to ours.  While Diss museum is a lot smaller than our heritage centre, it does enjoy a prime position in the town centre, right in the market place.  We were…

  • Embroidered shield by Paulina Zelke

    So Anna McInnes visited the centre today and while she was talking about her parents she mentioned her mother spent many evenings embroidering a ‘shield’ for Breckland Middle School.  Anna’s mother, Paulina Zelke, helped out at the school and the embroidery project consumed much of her mother’s spare time.  Anna described the shield – an…