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 The project designed by Brundall Penguins group
The “Brundall Memories Collection” has brought together the childhood recollections and photographs of people who grew up and lived in the village during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s to help us learn about their everyday lives and experiences
Together with additional research and extracts from contemporary records, we can understand how our village has grown and evolved while Brundall Primary School has become “the beating heart of the community” since it opened in 1969. Before 1969 children would go to Strumpshaw, Blofield, or even Hillside in Thorpe unless their parents opted to send them to one of the little ‘dame’ schools within the village. The Strumpshaw school building can still be seen, converted into a house, on the left just before the turn to the recycling centre and Strumpshaw Fen. The school in Braydeston Avenue opened with 112 pupils and numbers have fluctuated over the years resulting in mobile classrooms at times and actual building extensions at others. The first headteacher of Brundall School was David Capp (pictured below with a pupil), who came as a young man in 1969 and stayed until he retired in 1998. For state secondary school education pupils travel to Thorpe St Andrew or Acle. To mark the school’s 50th anniversary (1969/70 to 2019/20,Brundall Local History Group created a collection of learning resources derived from its oral history and digital image archive. A national timeline was also compiled to provide a backdrop of significant developments, new technologies and changing social ideas and attitudes since the middle of the 20th Century. Together with the expertise and ingenuity of the school teaching team, this material aimed to inspire classroom activities around the idea of comparing everyday life in 1970 to 2020. A selection of the results of this special project can be seen in the Brundall Primary School 50th Anniversary Presentation. The collection of Brundall Memories reading cards, listed below, has been compiled by Brundall Local History Group to highlight various ways life has changed in the village since 1945. (The pdf files each open in a new window. When you have finished, just close them and this page will remain open) 
Discover the stories behind Brundall's street names.
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Images reflecting Brundall's past, with the school's first head, David Capp, at the top
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Brundall Memories... 1. 1945-1950s: Milk and Bread Deliveries
Doorstep deliveries are not the modern innovation that the supermarkets would have you believe. VIEW PDF 2. 1930s-1950s: More Doorstep Deliveries “The fish man didn’t provide wrapping so it was usual to take a plate to get your fish on and some other container to collect the cockles in.” VIEW PDF 3. 1950s-1960s: The Night Soil Collection “The ‘night soil ‘ cart, otherwise called ‘the honey cart’, was a council lorry with sliding sides and two operatives who emptied lavatories. Most ‘lavs’ were outside the house so could be readily accessed without disturbing anyone.” VIEW PDF 4. From Coal to Renewable Energy “The Council views with considerable alarm the failure of the electricity supply, notably on Christmas Day when many Christmas dinners were spoilt.” Parish Council 1958 VIEW PDF 5. 1937-1939: Boys on the Riverside, “The plot behind the Yare Hotel, where Charlie Gibbs’ boat shed was, is where I learnt to swim at the age of nine with the aid of an old car inner tube and a bit of encouragement from the more senior boys.” VIEW PDF 6. 1945: Getting to school: “When we were quite young, about seven, we’d be taken to the bus stop by one of the older people but then we used to walk home so we could save the bus money.” VIEW PDF 7. 1946: Water Supplies in Brundall “The majority of water supplied in the village of Brundall comes from pumps and wells in the gardens.” VIEW PDF 8. 1946-1971: Justice in the District “The village of Brundall is considered sufficiently honest (or small) not to need a Police Station. A solitary member of the local Police Force may occasionally be seen patrolling the village street…” VIEW PDF 9. 1950s: Merrisons’s Corner Shop “There was no self-service and everything was entered into an account book, the bill being settled at the end of the week.” VIEW PDF 10. 1930s-1960s: Morse’s Rose Fields “Brundall was nearly all owned by Henry Morse and Sons. It was all nurseries – shrubs, trees.” VIEW PDF 11. 1950s – 1960s: Listening to the Radio “Our radio, a large brown Bakelite set, sat on a small table on the far side of the living room. There it remained, as most radios were not portable and needed a permanent electrical connection.” VIEW PDF 12. 1950s – 1960s: TV in Rural Norfolk “By the end of the 1950s, watching television was the main leisure activity in the evenings and at weekends for most people.” VIEW PDF 13. 1958: Ferries Across the River Yare “The Coldham Hall ferry was a small ferry, although you could get motor bikes into it, the big ferry of course was the one at Surlingham, where cars and lorries went across.” VIEW PDF 14. 1969: The Doctor’s Surgery “The surgery was in Bradesfield in the Blofield Road, and a specially converted garage was my first consulting room. It took us about one year to realise that it was non-sound proof and that people in the waiting room could hear everything.” VIEW PDF 15. 1969: Reflections on Changing Scene An account of how things had changed in the village during the 1960s. VIEW PDF MORE IDEAS 1939-2011: Population Growth How Brundall’s population grew from 1939. VIEW PDF 1945-2020: A National Timeline Chronological selection of national events. VIEW PDF Brundall Memories Reading List VIEW PDF Links to films and useful websites VIEW PDF |
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.
