The theme was "Dress to impress" and the assembled members and guests certainly did that. There were several tuxedos and the ladies of all ages were particu...

On a crisp sunny morning on Sunday 27th October at 0730 we assembled in the Queens hall car park in Watton for a day trip to Lincolnshire. The journey was u...

The mid summer festivities got underway around 1800 on the 20th August with a bar-b que held at The Blenheim Centre. The event was primarily organised as an...

There are few sadder occasions than saying farewell to one of our war hero’s and that was exactly what we did on the last Monday of July. We paid tribute to...

Armed Forces Day celebrated with the help of some of our affiliated youth groups and the RAF families club. The pictures say it all, it started at 1100 and w...

Saturday the 2nd of February 2019 was the date of the Norfolk county conference held at Norfolk County Hall in Trowse. It is the forum for the Norfolk branc...

The latest branch meeting on the 15th January we were happy to host a visit from the departing County Chairman John Boisson. John who is a serving soldier w...

The 18th of December was our normal meeting evening and we decided to celebrate Christmas in style. Those attending were asked to bring along some festive f...

It seems only 5 minutes since I was last writing about our AGM and here we are again. Watton branch 97th and very well attended the youngest person present w...

Many moons ago whilst I was still working as a postman, a good friend of mine Alan Chilvers who was at the time the standard bearer for the Watton branch of ...

On the evening of 25th September 2018 at St. Mary's Church Watton, an historic event took place. The official affiliation of our branch with the 1st Watton ...

On August the 5th at some ungodly hour we convened in Norwich to set off on our pilgrimage to Ypres. 82 of us with 41 standards and wreaths representing Nor...

This year Aylsham branch hosted the rededication service for the Norfolk branches and were excellent hosts too. Planned with military precision (what did we...

2018 marks the 100th birthday of The Royal Air Force, and I am proud to say I took part in a quarter of those years, and was here to take part in celebration...

Watton & District Branch of The Royal British Legion received an award recently for their contributions to the Poppy Appeal which is just one of the ways tha...

It's been a while since the last post, due in no small part to my flying South for the winter for 3 months. But we are back and all is progressing as usual w...

A new era starts with our AGM firstly with a new venue at the Blenheim Centre which is situated near the few remaining RAF married quarters on Tedder close. ...

Our latest lunch outing saw the biggest turn out to date and would have been more but for the fact that several senior members had an important meeting to at...

The beautiful sunny afternoon of the 24th of August saw the members and friends invited to afternoon tea with the Padre The R ev Gerry Foster, at the vicarag...