• Village Club – do you have any ideas?

    Brampton Village Hall has recently had some work done to improve it and make it more user friendly in the short to medium term whilst the longer term future is further considered. This work includes new windows. There is some further work to be done if we can fund it.

    An important part of the Village Hall is the club which is open to all residents of Brampton and Oxnead. At present the club is open just once each month on the last Friday. On these Friday openings it mostly consists of the bar being open, darts etc, conversation and joviality. If I’m honest these nights often consist of the same people so it would also be nice to see you if you’ve never been before or only come along rarely.

    To maximize usage and also hopefully generate some income it has been suggested that some themed events are tried (not necessarily to be held at the hall).

    Suggestions so far include -:

    1. Barbeque (summer)

    2. Fete (summer) (for those that don’t know Brampton used to hold great fete’s on The Street outside the hall)

    3. Quiz night (autumn)

    4. Food night (themed or something as simple as getting fish and chips in)

    5. A film show (I have a great old Will Hay film from the 1930’s)

    6. Talent night – “open Mike” with a twist (no Mike) – I do actually know someone starting out in stand-up who might come along for free (or a drink) and there must be lots of other talent out there.

    7. A reprise of Adrian’s 78 rpm musical soiree

    8. A race night

    9. Games night

    In addition there will always be the village Christmas Parties (children’s and adults).

    Can you help? Have you any ideas? We would like to get a calendar of events planned and published – is there anything that you can help with or do you have a pet project of your own that you can organize for the community?

    Please let me know if you are able to help or organize something or, just as importantly, if any of the ideas above really grab you as good or bad. We will then try and get a programme out.

    The hall is also available to hire very reasonably if you need it for anything.

  • BRAMPTON DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS 2012

    The full moon rose into the clear night sky above Low Farm as the flames took hold of
    the beacon. At the required 10.01 pm the beacon had been expertly lit as the culmination to the village’s Diamond Jubilee event. It was the sort of event that Brampton does best. The mood was relaxed and friendly – an afternoon and evening mixture of party, barbecue and picnic had been going on all evening at Low Farm.

    It was almost a almost a tribal gathering. Hosted by Kiwi Andy and by Jill. Andy, clearly an expert in outdoor living, conjured fire at the right moments, whether it be barbecue, fire-pit or beacon. Others had cast a little magic, Jilly and her superb cakes and a particularly potent mix of Pimms from the shed-girls. There were renewals of acquaintance and the  grape vine of conversation was re-established.

    Over the evening, over eighty people dropped by and most stayed until the end in order
    to see the beacon lit as part of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution’s country wide chain of Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Beacons. There was no doubt that the Brampton beacon could be seen and there was a palpable element of pride felt in taking part.

    We remembered Joyce, who surely would have like to have been there. Low Farm, so
    long her home with her late husband Stanley Vincent, still managed to generate memories as I walked over the mown grounds on what were once the vegetable and flower gardens of the old house.

    The village has changed and become younger again, but it has somehow managed to retain something of it’s original independent spirit. They do things differently here. An event all falls in place quite naturally. Some but not too much planning and a collective effort serve to create a new memory and the parting comment that it had been “…great fun and we must do something similar next June”.

    [Photos to come]

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