Brandon Heritage

Tag: Suffolk

  • 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…

  • The evacuee boarding above the ironmonger shop …

    An idyllic childhood Peter Woods recalls his time as an evacuee, staying in a flat above Woodrow’s ironmonger, overlooking Market Hill, in the 1940s … “Our ‘front room’ looked out onto the market square and in one corner of this room stood a Morrison shelter.  This had a flat top with a cage like construction underneath.  When the…

  • 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,…

  • Welcome to our new online home

    Welcome!  This is the start of something really special.  The Brandon Heritage Centre is back online.  On Wednesday 12th April 2017 a meeting was held to air a new vision for the Heritage Centre, part of that vision is a return to hosting a dedicated website where people can look into the archive, learn about the…