Personalities

Ernest Heath

Ernest Heath

Ernest and his wife Heather lived and farmed at Top Farm, Wadshelf. Ernest died in 1959

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John Dixon

John Dixon

John Dixon lived at Brampton Hall through the middle of the 19th century. He described himself as a landowner and …

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William Hopkinson

William Hopkinson

William Hopkinson 1871 – 1916 Born in 1871 in Brampton and died in Northern France on 31 July 1916. William …

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John Clarke & Family

John Clarke & Family

John Clarke (left) with his family John Clarke opened the Brampton Steam Bakery at 294 Chatsworth Rd in the last …

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Scott & Haslam

Scott & Haslam Butchers

Scott & Haslam Butcters at junction of Chatsworth Road and Walton fields probably around 1910. In the doorway is Joseph …

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Ellis Bradbury

Ellis Bradbury

Ellis grew up in Cutthorpe. He enlisted with the Sherwood Foresters in 1914, but was transferred to the Royal Marines. …

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