Brandon Heritage

Tag: Cherry Rogers

  • Towler’s buses

    Cherry Rogers recalls Towler’s buses in Brandon. When I was growing up everybody used Towler’s buses.  My first memory, or it could be what I have been told rather than being a memory, was being taken to Bury St. Edmunds to have my photo taken.  I would have been coming up for two years old…

  • Memories of the funfair

    Cherry Rogers remembers going to the funfair My first memory of going to the fair is of me sitting in my pram, in Nana’s kitchen, ready to go.  My Nana looked out of the window and said, “I don’t know Doll, it’s a bit black over Will’s Mothers.”  I piped up, “I don’t want to…

  • Life with the railway

    Cherry Rogers’ memory reflects back on the railway … For some reason the station was a favourite place to walk to.  Mum and nana used to push me down there in my pram to see the trains and I in turn used to take my kids down to see the them.  It was a nice…

  • Going to church

    Cherry Rogers recalls antics going to church I was christened at St. Peter’s Church.  Nana was Church of England but always went to the Methodist with Grandad, so I always went to the Methodist on London Road.  Watson’s shop was next door, across from Towlers Lane, and Mr. and Mrs Watson lived there with their…

  • School days

    Cherry Rogers remembers her school days I remember my first day at school.  I told mum I didn’t want to go and I should make a fuss, so she was dreading it.  I went with a girl called Rita who was the granddaughter of Mrs Parrot who lived at the old Manor House.  When it…

  • Home deliveries

    Cherry Rogers remembers a time when deliveries to your door were common place. For our grandparents and parents, ordering your shopping and having it delivered was quite normal.  The internet was non-existent but almost everything could be delivered to the door. I can remember the knife grinder coming round.  He came once a year on…

  • Dad and his shopping habits

    An insight of the shopping habits of Cherry Rogers and her late father. Shopping when I was growing up was quite a social activity.  You went shopping with your list, to the market or to a shop, and sat down while the shopkeeper assembled your order.  Sometimes there was a discussion about your purchase with…

  • Newspaper rounds and the bookstall

    Cherry Rogers reflects upon her youth – buying a book from the railway station bookstall … I was just thinking how times have changed, when I was listening to two young children chatting while I was out shopping.  Talk about being grown up! It got me thinking about my childhood and growing up.  Playing down…

  • Wash day in Thetford Road

    Cherry Rogers remembers her mum and nan on wash day … Monday was washday.  Tuesday ironing.  Wednesday bedrooms.  Thursday front room, which was only used at Christmas, so why it needed cleaning every week I don’t know – a quick dust and that would have been it, blinking freezing in there anyway!   The only…

  • ‘Courting’ in the 1950s

    Cherry Rogers remembers courting in the 1950s … The thing to do in Brandon in the late fifties and early sixties (same in most places I think) was to go to a café or coffee bar.  In Brandon it was the ‘New England’ at the bottom of London Road, next to Alf Cunningham’s garage.  Or…