The Moor

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The Moor

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Mixed media related to The Moor, including the Moor House.

Collection Items

View of The Moor
View of The Moor from the junction with Orchard Lane. Poor focus.

Moor Lodge
Moor Lodge was for many years the home of Herbert Temple Owen, manager of Barclays Bank in Reepham. His wife Annie was the youngest daughter of Rev. M. Wilkinson.

Thatched Cottage, Reepham Moor
Thatched cottage near the corner of The Moor where it meets Orchard Lane. Two army cyclists are pictured about 1917, with a woman who was possibly Mrs. Self, mother of Charlie Self.

Reepham Moor Corner
Two views of the corner where the Moor reaches Norwich Road. The signpost looks newly erected in the first image.

Reepham Moor Junction
Postcard of the junction of the Moor with the bottom of New Road (on the right) & looking towards the Norwich Road. High hedging replaces/hides the picket fence.

Reepham Moor Cottages
Two views, taken at different times, of the row of cottages on the left of the road that leads up towards Orchard Lane. The shop was a grocer's business run by Martin Luther Dewing. The barn-type building in the second picture still looks the same.

Reepham Moor
A comprehensive history of Reepham Moor, including an account of Moor House, tithes and dwellings on The Moor.

Moor House - Aerial View
Undated colour aerial view, taken later than the B&W view.

Moor House - Aerial View
B&W aerial view, taken when the house was in use as a nursing home run by Dr. Dorothy Eglington.
Extensive kitchen garden. No new houses on the other side of New Road.

Sale of the Moor House
View of the house advertised for sale, from an undated newspaper cutting placed by the agents. Very brief note included.

Moor House – Postcard
View of the front of the house.
Tuck postcard RPHM 8.

Moor House – Another View
B&W undated winter view with white handwritten lettering.

View of the Moor House
B&W summer view with red lettering-possibly a Peck's series from the early 1900s.

Moor House 1982
Two similar views of the house from the drive and one of the conservatory.

Reepham Moor
Group of 8 smartly dressed men and 1 child in front of a wall on Reepham Moor

Thatched Cottages
A row of thatched cottages on Orchard Lane, Reepham Moor once known as Stocks Hill Cottages, demolished circa 1939.

Reepham Moor Postcard
Old sepia postcard of part of Reepham Moor showing the house called The Old Monastery on the left.

Moor House : Restoration of the Glasshouse
The glasshouse at the Moor House was restored in the 1990s. The views include three of the exterior, one before the work was competed. One of the interior photographs shows the trunk of a vine that Ann Bircham remembered being there in the…

Reepham Moor
Copy of a sepia postcard showing Reepham Moor. In the distance can be seen a man with a cart and a lady in a long dress.

The Old Monastery, Reepham Moor
2 photos of front and 2 of the east wall. The (presumed) proprietor appears in one of each.
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