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About BLHG
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Linking generations across the community through collecting. preserving & sharing information & memories about our history and heritage
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DONATIONS: If you wish to make a financial donation to support Brundall Local History Group's community outreach activities, local history publications, our research and enquiry service and the sustainability of our Community Archive, please download our pdf.
Membership and meetings
Brundall Local History Group (BLHG) usually meets on the first Saturday of the month at 2.30pm in The Memorial Hall, Links Avenue, Brundall, for a talk. See ‘Our Events’ for details.
Both visitors and new members are always very welcome.
We charge £3 for the afternoon which includes tea or coffee and a biscuit, or you can pay an annual subscription of £15 and become a member. Members are admitted free to the talks and also receive a quarterly newsletter, The Brundall and Braydeston Chronicle, with Brundall stories and news about our latest research discoveries.
If you want to join us, come along to a meeting or email [email protected].
You can also download a membership form here
Why not sign up to the BLHG? Your membership annual subscription of £15 covers the following:
Both visitors and new members are always very welcome.
We charge £3 for the afternoon which includes tea or coffee and a biscuit, or you can pay an annual subscription of £15 and become a member. Members are admitted free to the talks and also receive a quarterly newsletter, The Brundall and Braydeston Chronicle, with Brundall stories and news about our latest research discoveries.
If you want to join us, come along to a meeting or email [email protected].
You can also download a membership form here
Why not sign up to the BLHG? Your membership annual subscription of £15 covers the following:
- Free admission to BLHG’s annual programme of talks at Brundall Memorial Hall, Links Avenue (£3 to visitors)
- Receipt of our quarterly Brundall & Braydeston Chronicle containing new local research and stories
- Regular e-news to keep you up to date with local history related events and activities
- Opportunities to join our Archive Working Group of volunteers to help catalogue the BLHG community archive collection
- The maintenance and upgrading of this website, packed with local stories, images and learning resources.
- A contribution towards the research and production of new local publications, community learning resources and outreach work
NEW: become a Friend of the BLHG for just £6
Brundall Local History Group receives many requests, from all around Britain and the world, about our village history and the families who have made it their home.
So if you enjoy discovering Brundall’s history but can’t attend BLHG meetings, you can subscribe to our quarterly journal, The Brundall and Braydeston Chronicle, for just £6 a year as a Friend. We’ll post the Chronicle to you four times a year in January, April, July, and October. (By post is UK only - overseas members will be able to receive a pdf by email.)
To become a Friend, email your name, address, and email address to: [email protected] and we’ll send you our bank details.
So if you enjoy discovering Brundall’s history but can’t attend BLHG meetings, you can subscribe to our quarterly journal, The Brundall and Braydeston Chronicle, for just £6 a year as a Friend. We’ll post the Chronicle to you four times a year in January, April, July, and October. (By post is UK only - overseas members will be able to receive a pdf by email.)
To become a Friend, email your name, address, and email address to: [email protected] and we’ll send you our bank details.
Our archive and research
We have a large archive, with many photographs, and we welcome more. A small group of members are currently working to research and archive them. We also welcome more volunteers!
If you think you may have information or photographs that we don’t, if you know of any errors or omissions, or if you want to know more about Brundall or the BLHG we’d love to hear from you.
Over the years we have dealt with many queries from village residents and from people throughout the world.
If you have any questions for us, email [email protected] and we'll do our best to help.
Please note, all images are copyright BLHG. We may allow reproduction of photographs, if requested, and we welcome voluntary donations to support our work.
If you think you may have information or photographs that we don’t, if you know of any errors or omissions, or if you want to know more about Brundall or the BLHG we’d love to hear from you.
Over the years we have dealt with many queries from village residents and from people throughout the world.
If you have any questions for us, email [email protected] and we'll do our best to help.
Please note, all images are copyright BLHG. We may allow reproduction of photographs, if requested, and we welcome voluntary donations to support our work.
BLHG committee 2024-25
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Chairman: Barbara Ayers
Secretary: Celia Sutton Treasurer and membership secretary: Jenny Robertson Archive administrator: Chloe Veale Archive - Family history records co-ordinator: Di Vanderson |
Archive - Archaeology and early records co-ordinator:
Ann-Marie Simpson Website, publicity and Chronicle editor: Celia Sutton Facebook and social media editor: Zinta Bangiere Digital archive support: Greg Chandler |
How it all began...
An early meeting of the group as the Book of Brundall and Braydeston was prepared
A set of scrapbooks was compiled by the then manager of Brundall Library, Sheila Evans, between 1988 and 2000, in response to enquiries from local schoolchildren.
Inspired by her predecessor’s work, library manager Barbara Ayers decided to co-ordinate a book in the Halsgrove Community History Series.
About 20 interested people met and after two years of interviewing residents past and present, and other research, produced ‘The Book of Brundall and Braydeston’ in 2007.
It was then decided that this was just the beginning of finding out about Brundall’s past and the group continued.
In the process of writing the book a large amount of material was amassed and this was digitised by Gerry Hawkins and formed the basis of our archive.
This archive has been used to produce books, talks, and displays etc. Wendy Ward has used some of the photographs to publish postcards, greetings cards, notelets and calendars.
We have written books about some of the houses in the village and their occupants, the trees of Brundall and Braydeston, Brundall House Auxiliary Hospital 1914-16 and the Parish Church of St Laurence.
Over the years members have worked with the University of Cambridge’s Higher Education Field Academy and arranged test pit digs in residents’ gardens.
Inspired by her predecessor’s work, library manager Barbara Ayers decided to co-ordinate a book in the Halsgrove Community History Series.
About 20 interested people met and after two years of interviewing residents past and present, and other research, produced ‘The Book of Brundall and Braydeston’ in 2007.
It was then decided that this was just the beginning of finding out about Brundall’s past and the group continued.
In the process of writing the book a large amount of material was amassed and this was digitised by Gerry Hawkins and formed the basis of our archive.
This archive has been used to produce books, talks, and displays etc. Wendy Ward has used some of the photographs to publish postcards, greetings cards, notelets and calendars.
We have written books about some of the houses in the village and their occupants, the trees of Brundall and Braydeston, Brundall House Auxiliary Hospital 1914-16 and the Parish Church of St Laurence.
Over the years members have worked with the University of Cambridge’s Higher Education Field Academy and arranged test pit digs in residents’ gardens.
Copyright: Nothing on this website may be copied or published without the permission of the Brundall Local History Group. This does not mean we will not give permission, but you do have to ask us. The archive material has come from many sources and there are many copyright holders.
