Brandon Heritage

Tag: Brandon Heritage Centre

  • 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…

  • Announcement: AGM 2017

    We can finally announce the Brandon Heritage Centre AGM will be held on: 7.30pm, Thursday 25th May, at the Brandon Royal British Legion, London Road, BRANDON Please do come along and have your say.  As you may be aware we were hopeful that the meeting on April 12th would be the AGM so we could…

  • Can you name these footballers?

    Brandon footballers, can you name any? John Basham has asked if we can get names to these men, so if you can help then please do let us know.  We have one or two names so far …      

  • Community Open Day

    Our first day open! We shall be open on Sunday 4th June – Carnival Day.  This will be your chance to visit us and tell us what you like and what you don’t like about the Heritage Centre.  We shall be displaying some old carnival photos to coincide with the event.  Admission will be free…

  • 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…

  • Settling in Brandon – Bob Jones

    Brandon resident, Bob Jones, recalls memories of how he moved to the area almost sixty years ago, and settled in the town … “It was 1959 and we were looking for a property to purchase or rent in Thetford (preferred) or Brandon would do.  The London overspill development was progressing at this time but there…

  • What is this?

    Here’s a question.  How many times do you walk through town and not look at the buildings around you?  If you do look at them then have you seen this? John Basham spotted this and on our Facebook page he questioned what it might be, “Does anyone know what this is? Its taken from the…

  • Remains of Nissan huts found

    Thank you to Brandon resident Sylvia Steward for letting us know about these concrete steps she discovered while walking in the forest near Rowan Drive, which probably belonged to the old Nissan huts that formed the army camp on that site during WW2.  When the army left at the end of the war the huts then became home…

  • “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…

  • Keys to the door

    ANOTHER MILESTONE … Today the new management team took possession of a set of keys for the Heritage Centre.  Here are just a few photos from a whistle stop tour round the exhibits.