Brandon Heritage

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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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,…