Residents are invited to submit their favourite photographs for publication. Photos of interest to Bramptonians are always welcome. This page is best viewed using Broadband. If you use dial-up please stick with it.

****2008 PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION****

Throughout 2008 we will be running a just for fun photographic competition although I'm sure we will be able to find some prizes. The subject matter is "Brampton through the seasons".

Photographs must be your own work, previously unpublished & available for publication on the website. There will be two categories, the first being single photographs which illustrates one of the seasons. The second will be for portfolios of 4 photographs taken through the year as the seasons change - they don't have to be submitted together but please let us know that you intend to enter this category when you send the first one.

Please send photographs to webmaster@bramptonnorfolk.org.uk or arrange for submission of returnable media such as CD or data stick. Competition to run throughout 2008 with the winners announced early in 2009. A selection  of entries will appear on this page.

If there is sufficient interest we will also consider a special prize for the best photograph submitted by somebody aged 18 or under.

Brampton Village Hall

Sunrise over Brampton, a photograph by and copyrighted to Rob Dunham. Rob is a photographer who lives in the village (see the Services page). He also took the photograph below showing a sunset over the Bure.

(Copyright Rob Dunham)

The river Bure looking back towards Brampton from Oxnead bridge

The Haflinger horses grazing on Brampton Common 

Two views from Lower Brampton, the above is the Marsham Road and in the distance the embankment which carries the Bure Valley Railway. The lower one is looking into the village from the sign. The villages last pub, The Maids Head (now a private dwelling) can be seen on the right. Both photos taken 28/4/2007.

For many months in 2005-06 Brampton played host to an escaped Great Horned Owl whose natural home is in North America. It became quite a celebrity within the village and lived a wild and harmonious existence for most of the time. However eventually it did become a bit of a nuisance and even mobbed human beings so a local expert was called in and the creature, now named Brampton, was taken back in to captivity. We wish it well in its new home.

The WW2 "pill" box guarding the river crossing. This, like all of its kind that remain, is now a listed building.

Cradle Bridge

Easter 2008 - a very early and as it turned out wintry Easter. These photographs were all taken on Easter Monday - some as the snow continued to fall.