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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…
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Jean Dodwell (nee Claxton) remembers: part 1
Jean Dodwell, nee Claxton, Was born in Santon Downham in 1921, moving to Brandon a few years later when her father ran the Fox and Hounds pub on Thetford Road. Jean now lives in Bournemouth, and has been sharing her memories of her time in Brandon before WW2 … “When we lived at the pub,…