Apparently, a question often asked.

Personally, as an AM DRAM of Woodford Players and MADS, I have always known it as a theatre, along with its players, but it is so much more!
During the Second World War, a group of Air Raid Wardens responsible for the Brookdale Estate area wanted to form a club to improve the quality of life for local residents. In 1944, a private company limited by guarantee was formed. It was important to the founders that there was a clubhouse, so they leased 9 acres of grazing land from the local Council. The building, first opened in 1952, has been extended many times since.

Before the Norman conquest in 1066, Bramall was held as two separate manors, owned by two Saxon freemen – Brun and Hacun. A few years later, William the Conqueror subdued the North West of England, and he gave both parts of the manor land to Hamon de Masci, the first Baron of Dunham Massey, who was one of his followers. The Bramall land was probably a waste, having been devastated during William the Conqueror’s harsh subjugation of the North West of England. During the next 800 years three families owned the estate: The Massey’s, the de Bromale’s and the Davenport’s.