50 Years of Family Christmas

Clendon & Violet Bramhill Family Christmas

        In 2007 we celebrated 50 years of the Clendon and Violet Bramhill family gathering together for Christmas. As you young married family they started in their home but as their family grew they moved to larger and larger quarters. First to the Kurtzville Arena and Community Center and then to the Palmerston Arena and Community Center.

        In 1952 the first Kurtzville Arena was build but it was destroyed by fire on Feb. 8, 1957. The replacement arena opened in January 1958 and was used until 1976 when the building was condemned under new Ministry of Labour regulations. It was about that time that we started to use the Palmerston Arena facility as we do today. We meet January 1 each year to celebrate family Christmas together. At our peak, with all the spouses, children, boy-friends and girl-friends, we had about 120 but now average around 80 each year.

        Our Bramhill Christmas starts with a Turkey Dinner will all the trimmings. We topped the dinner off with wonderful deserts including Christmas Pudding made from a special recipe of Violet's, faithfully followed by Ruby Quanz and now June Coleman. We certainly never went hungry.

        Our day included a  game of hockey, the Bramhill boys love their hockey, and of course that official Bramhill game, "Lost Heir".

        Let's share some of our memories. Send your memories of Bramhill Christmas to me by email at johnquanz@rogers.com and we'll add them to this webpage.

Here are some pictures of early Christmases in Kurtzville.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas 1973

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas 1973

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas 1973

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas 1973

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas 1976

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas 1976

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas 1976

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas 1976

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas 1976

 

 

 

 

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