Brampton, The Green c.1960
Photo ref: B182013
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Photo ref: B182013
Photo of Brampton, The Green c.1960

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It was at Brampton that John Pepys, father of Samuel Pepys the diarist, inherited a large property worth about £80 per year. It is said that an iron pot full of silver coins found at the foot of a wall in 1842 was part of a cache hidden by Samuel Pepys during the Great Plague. This view showing the now disappeared telephone kiosk was taken from the spot where forty years later the Rt Honourable John Major, a local resident, planted an oak tree to commemorate 100 years of the Brampton Parish Council. Peeping under the trees on the right is the Methodist church built in 1889. The grass in the foreground awaits the attention of a lawn mower - today, it would not need to wait, as Brampton prides itself for its regular success in the Huntingdonshire `Best Kept Village` competition.

A Selection of Memories from Brampton

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Brampton

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We moved into this house early 70s once the bank closed down and has been our family home ever since. You would enter the bank at the side of the house and growing up this room was our playroom all the main room and bedrooms had open fires but it was still freezing!
I was raised in Mandeville Road where my mum and dad had lived since 1953, a year after the houses were completed. Ours was the last brick built, no 7, before they started building the pre-fab houses from steel frame and concrete panels. As an architect I know the density of modern estates, around 14 to 16 per acre is common now a days. Bernard Road, Olivia Road and Mandeville Road are around 6 per acre. Basically on a ...see more
The building you can see behind the tree left of photo was the main guardroom. At the back was the offices of the RAF Police and the RAF Regt. Opposite their office entrance was a grassed area where we had a wonderful standing aircraft - a jet Provost. One day whilst sitting in the RAF Police office, I glanced out of the window and suddenly realized that some wag had adorned the beast with ...see more
We moved to Brampton in August 1949 when my father (an RAF officer) was posted there from RAF Wharton nr Lytham St Annes. My sister was three weeks old - and my mum only just recovering from a difficult birth after also just having had her thumbnail removed. It was not a very good start as shortly afterwards my father became ill with stomach cancer. I attended Brampton Village school where Mr Stapleton was ...see more