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November 27, 2017

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

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  • Tags: fund raising, Tesco Bags of Help
November 9, 2017

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

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  • Tags: 1917, Bertie Challis, Bertie Docking, Brandon Fire, Ernest Brown, George Marchant, Great War, John Basham, John Wells, Passchendaele, Percy John Basham, Remembrance Day, trenches, war memorial, William Adams, WW1
November 5, 2017

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

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  • Tags: Barry Spencer, David Bimson, David Pocock, Mark Skinner., Peter Ridgewell