A metal Brinkley village sign depicts two dark silhouettes flanking a central gold-coloured form against a blurred background.

Brinkley (RGL 2022)

Brinkley Data

Mike Petty's Brinkley Scrapbook

A crocheted witch and three pumpkins sit on top of a red Royal Mail post box against a background of green bushes.

Brinkley (RGL 2022)

A gabled stone plaque on a white wall inscribed with the names of local men who died in the Great War from 1914 to 1919.

Brinkley War Memorial (RGL 2022)

29 October 1909

A girl boarded-out at Brinkley had a peculiar disease described as a band of music within her. It sounded so loud that it could be heard throughout the school and when she was upstairs the sounds could be heard all through the house. She had been sent to the Workhouse Infirmary and after some months the band was silent. But then it had started again. It was no matter for joking, it was a very serious matter indeed, Newmarket Guardians were told. CDN 09 10 29 — Mike Petty, Brinkley Scrapbook 1897 to 1990, p. 3.

A dirt path leads past a hedge and greenhouse toward a house and a tall building with a square ventilator on the roof.

Brinkley 1935 (MoC266/54)

Sources

Mike Petty Archive

Projects

Brinkley

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