Brandon Heritage

Tag: Cherry Rogers

  • Memories of Calders Wood yard

    Cherry Rogers, remembers working in Calders wood yard … “I would like to share one or two memories of my times at Calders. I started work there at the age of fourteen in the July of 1959.  My birthday was in September so I was not really eligible to leave school until Christmas, but my…

  • “Bloody sorft thing to do”

    Cherry Rogers relives the time her world changed with the introduction of a modern toilet, something we take for granted today… “We lived at 50 Thetford Road and like a lot of people had an outside privy, with a visit from Jack Ollie with his honeycart for toilet emptying.  I nearly said every day, but thinking about…

  • Bee keeping in Brandon

    Cherry Rogers recalls her memories of growing up in Brandon … “Some of my happiest memories are time spent with my dad Jack Mackender and my maternal grandfather Alec Rolph.   Dad and grandad were both beekeepers and produced prize winning honey.  My Grandad kept his bees on the land behind his house on London Road,…