Brampton, The Green c.1960

Photo ref: B182013

More about this scene

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.