1 20 48 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/6fd4f40f2ef7dd5e7cf4cf35700a3217.pdf da48e48ff35239a99e69a4a1d396612d PDF Text Text From the Archive Post date: November 17, 2022 Conflicting stories over Booton Beck accident November’s illustration in the 2022 Reepham Life Calendar shows a copy of a 19th century lithograph published by Stone & Hodgson in “The Picturesque Views of all the Bridges belonging to the County of Norfolk”, based on detailed accurate drawings made by Francis Stone (1765-1835). A previous item on the Reepham Life website (December 2013) stated that the bridge over the Eyn Brook was erected in 1820 and that David Williams, riding back from dinner with his brother-in-law Peter Elwin at Booton Hall, fell from his horse and broke his neck crossing the ford over the Eyn Brook at Booton. Part of this information originally came from a photocopy of a handwritten item in our files. An excerpt is shown, signed HEH, which stands for Henry Edward Hawes (1863-1957). Researching the Williams family it transpires that David Williams died in 1811, with no mention of an accident in his death announcement and no reports of an inquest into his death (Norfolk Chronicle, 28 December 1811). �Harry Hawes wrote down his recollections when he was in his 80s, so he will have first heard versions of this tale in the 1870s when he was a child. David Williams’ son Peter Elwin Williams (1789-1826) was a surgeon living in Reepham. His death was recorded in the local papers (Norwich Mercury & Bury and Norwich Post, March 1826). Below is a photograph of the plaque on the bridge as it is today (Courtesy of M. Rogers). There was a discussion at a Booton parish meeting in the summer about restoring the memorial stone on the bridge, but, as the inscription is barely visible, this is probably not possible. Janet Archer � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Conflicting stories over Booton Beck accident Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2302091330 Booton Elwin Williams https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/b6dfa2f81596bfdb514d6757d95733de.pdf 9dec1bc594f49dd6cd8e1515421e6b05 PDF Text Text From the Archive Post date: March 23, 2022 Childhood imagination keeps memories of the Walking Man alive By Janet Archer In response to receiving copies of various newspaper cuttings, Andrew Hunt wrote to the Reepham Archive describing his childhood experiences: “I had thought about the Walking Man on and off over the years and on a recent visit to Norfolk I tried to locate the exact place where he used to be – there was nothing. “When I tried to describe to my family about this strange and, quite honestly, eerie figure that would appear in the headlights of my father’s car on dark nights many, many years ago, I think they believed I had swapped reality for the plot of a Hammer House of Horror production. “I was terrified of the Walking Man and avoided looking at him at all costs, but I was a very young child at the time. “My grandparents who lived in Reepham had both passed away by the end of the seventies and I never really visited the town again. “I began to wonder if I’d made the whole thing up too, but my friend Mark Davies reassured me I (probably) hadn’t and that local landmarks come and go at a fairly regular rate and kindly took it upon himself contact the Reepham Archive to answer the question that had been bugging me for decades. “I was delighted when Mark contacted me with all the information about Mr Lain and the story surrounding the statue. I was so happy to finally put this to rest. “I must confess I’m still a bit unnerved by the Walking Man, but at least, thanks to [the Archive], I know all the facts. “My daughter, too, is fascinated with this story and plans to feature an image of the Walking Man in an art installation as part of her degree course. “I wanted to share all this and hopefully let Mr Lain’s family know that my overactive childhood imagination has kept the Walking Man alive and that he will be walking on for perhaps a little longer too.” William Lain pictured in March 1972 with his statue outside his workshop in Norwich Road, Reepham. Photo: EDP � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Memories of the Walking Man Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2210281830 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970s Description An account of the resource Letter from Andrew Hunt recalling childhood memories of the Walking Man statue in Norwich Road. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA 1970s Lain Norwich Road statue Walking Man https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/9ca11966c69e257d6cd82985af43ad1e.pdf ae6cf869477457993c3c78f9893a7b59 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: March 13, 2022 Whatever happened to the ‘Walking Man’ statue? by Janet Archer Recently, a tour guide from York contacted the Reepham Archive enquiring about a strange statue that stood in Reepham in the 1970s. He wrote on behalf of a friend whose family had lived in Reepham for many years. It was discovered through a chance question to Michael Black that the statue had existed and stood in the yard on Norwich Road where William Lain had a stonemasonry and sculpting business in the premises that now houses Rococo Loco and included workshops and storage in Bircham’s Yard. William and his wife opened the business in 1972 under the name Walking Man Antiques, specialising in porcelain and small items of furniture. The opening was reported in the Eastern Daily Press in March. Later that year a further article appeared reporting damage caused by vandals to the Walking Man statue. The seven-foot-high sculpture had fortunately fallen onto a sack of earth, saving it from serious damage but chipping his hat and cape. The Lain family kindly found some old newspaper cuttings, copies of which were sent to Mr Davies the tour guide and his friend Andrew Hunt, who later wrote of his childhood memories of the statue. This article has been edited from those cuttings and Andrew’s information will appear in a future item. William Lain in June 1972 with the fallen statue. Photo: EDP � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Whatever happened to the ‘Walking Man’ statue? Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2210271500 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 2022 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1970s Norwich Road, Reepham Description An account of the resource Background to the statue made by William Lain in the 1970s. The 'Walking Man' stood in the yard on Norwich Road where William Lain had a stonemasonry and sculpting business. 1970s Lain Norwich Road statue Walking Man https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/7539b6941b0708daa7e3ba72c537e3cc.pdf be7324d633cbc7f458549b423fef9eba PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: January 6, 2022 When deliveries were made by horse and cart By Janet Archer We assume that the Reepham Life 2022 Calendar picture for January (below) was taken in Gibbs’ yard, now known as Merchants Yard. One of the men in the cart is Stanley Watson, younger son of Frederick Watson, licensee of the Sun Inn in the early 1900s. The photograph below shows Stanley on Gibbs’ cart driving up Ollands Road. �Stanley was apprenticed to Gibbs’ ironmongery business by the time he was 16 and worked for the Gibbs family for many years. His older brother Clifford became licensee of the Sun Inn in 1922 and in the same year Stanley married Grace Fanny Dewing at St Mary, Aldborough. Her father had grown up in Reepham Moor and was a younger brother of Martin Luther Dewing. Grace, before her marriage to Stanley, had already begun teaching at Hackford and Whitwell Primary School. Wesley Piercy remembers that, in the 1930s Grace was teaching the pupils of Standards 1 and 2. After Stanley’s death in 1930 Grace continued teaching and four years later married Walter Lawn, also a teacher. The 1939 register shows they were living in Reepham and working for Norfolk County Council. Walter is registered as a head schoolmaster, but this would not have been at Hackford and Whitwell Primary School since Chute Thompson was still the head at that time. Both Grace and Walter served as ARP wardens during the Second World War, and both were active in the Reepham detachment of the British Red Cross. The photograph below from 1966 shows them with Ben Stimpson and Mr and Mrs Harold Rump loading boxes ready for a meals on wheels delivery. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When deliveries were made by horse and cart Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2203211215 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 2022 Description An account of the resource Family information about Stanley Watson and his wife Grace who, after Stanley's death, later married Walter Lawn. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Lawn Watson https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/2f06f31f55d0b4c050b011c9ae0c6f72.pdf 56b9b74be76ca34e495fb8b6b402c661 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: February 1, 2022 The Ollands’ owner took part in town’s social life By Janet Archer When the Kendrews purchased The Ollands house and gardens in 1883 it had been a Bircham family residence for more than 50 years – the last Birchams living there were William Bircham (1800–1886) and his wife Marianne Dalrymple. William had inherited the house from his uncle, also called William (1769–1853), who had married twice but had no children. This earlier William was the Bircham responsible for building The Ollands in the 1830s. The Reepham Life 2022 Calendar picture for February (above) featured The Ollands, Reepham, taken by Edward Makinson Haigh in the 1860s, when the house was still owned and lived in by the Bircham family. John Anthony Kendrew was a civil engineer who was born in Salford, Lancashire, in the 1830s. His proposal entry in the membership list of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1870 gives evidence of him having worked in railway construction abroad, such as Canada, Brazil and Colombo in Sri Lanka. By1884 the Kendrews were already taking part in the social life of Reepham. John Kendrew later served as a local magistrate and as a member of various committees, including the Aylsham Board of Guardians. He was chairman of the school board when land was being purchased for building the new primary school on Whitwell Road (part of this road was called Sun Barn Road at that time). In the 1860s William Bircham had won prizes at horticultural shows for fruit and vegetables, notably grapes grown in the vinery that was 70 feet long. John Kendrew also won prizes throughout the late 1880s and 1890s, notably for “Black Hamburg” grapes, tomatoes and chrysanthemums, as well as apples, soft fruit and potted plants such as primulas and cyclamen. �The Kendrews’ daughter Mary was married in St Michael’s in 1906 and a full report of the occasion was given in the Norfolk News. Traders from the town were invited to The Ollands to greet the bride before the wedding. After the wedding 300 schoolchildren and their teachers were treated to a tea, and on the Sunday it was the turn of the “widows and old people of Hackford”, all being given a piece of wedding cake. John Kendrew died in 1914. His wife Mary moved to Surrey and died in Reigate in 1920. Above: John Anthony Kendrew and his wife Mary. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ollands’ owner took part in town’s social life Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2203211200 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 2022 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Ollands House Description An account of the resource Biographical information about John Kendrew and his wife Mary who lived at The Ollands until John's death in 1914. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Kendrew The Ollands https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/000b6e65f701880a309a3e04962901a6.pdf e91f40daa2004e8c704f8fb986b1c9c5 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: November 16, 2021 Sunday schools in Reepham By Janet Archer The December photograph shows the performers from the Sunday school in a Nativity Play held in St Mary's Church in the 1950s, which includes Mrs. McCubbin, the then vicar's wife, in the centre. An additional photograph, shown below, shows a more formal, smaller group on the same occasion. Identification of some of the individuals can be found on the Reepham Archive website. Sunday Schools began to be established in the 18th century to provide basic lessons in literacy, as well as religious instruction for children who were often working alongside their parents on six days a week. Robert Raikes, a Gloucester journal editor, is credited with establishing a successful Sunday school for poor and orphaned children in July 1780. As word of his work spread, Sunday schools soon appeared in other communities throughout England. �In Reepham in the 1920s every denomination ran a Sunday school, St. Mary's and St. Michael's, Wesleyan, Primitive and United Methodist, Salvation Army and the Plymouth Brethren. Even parents who did not attend church thought that their children should attend Sunday School. The Wesleyan Methodist Church had its own purpose built schoolroom, added to the church in 1904. Lessons were held prior to the Sunday morning church service where the children would join later with the adult congregation, followed by another session in the afternoon. There would usually be a summer treat, possibly to the seaside, and a Christmas treat. Another important event was the Sunday School Anniversary where the children would give recitations and songs and be presented with prizes for good attendance. In Wesley Piercy's time in the 1920s the Sunday School Anniversary was in July. “A platform was erected in the Chapel, on which sat all the Sunday School scholars and teachers and the choir. All the children had to give a recitation; no recitation, no treat. These were some of the biggest occasions of the year. All three chapels followed a similar pattern and were always packed on these occasions, when ladies could show off their new hats.“ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sunday Schools in Reepham Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2111251300 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2021 Description An account of the resource Photographs of a nativity play in St. Mary's in the 1950s, with details about Sunday Schools in Reepham in the 1920s. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA 1950s McCubbin nativity RL Calendar 2021 St Mary's Sunday School https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/eaac7e2feba95a3151a39c26d1ac659d.pdf a03d2f435972f2ebf8488c02df7ced1b PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: October 19, 2021 Thatched cottages on Orchard Lane By Janet Archer The photograph below shows a row of thatched cottages on Orchard Lane, Reepham, which, according to research, was demolished in the 1930s. (The end of the row can just be seen in the Reepham Life Calendar 2021 photograph for November.) Photos: Reepham Archive Today there is only one example left on The Moor of a thatched cottage. Harry Hawes tells us that many thatched roofs were replaced with pantiles in the middle of the nineteenth century by his father Thomas Hawes. A terrace that has remained intact is shown in the picture below. �This terrace included a shop run by Martin Luther Dewing, who began his working life as a grocer’s assistant in Aylsham, later setting up his own business in Dyball’s Yard. This was behind the Old Brewery House in Reepham Market Place, where a few cottages and stables had been built after the sale of the Reepham Brewery in the late 1970s. Martin Luther Dewing’s father, Thomas Dewing, ran a grocery and tailoring business in one of the cottages in the Old Monastery group. Thomas had started his working life as a tailor’s apprentice, living with his family in Cawston. The Dewing family were non-conformists and Thomas’s father Martin and his brother William were early trustees of Reepham Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Thomas’s census record in 1891 appears close to the Red* Lion public house at the corner of Reepham Moor. By 1901 his son Martin was trading in Reepham Moor, probably taking over his father’s premises after Thomas’s death in 1895. *(Bullards Brewery had apparently made a request in 1890 for the name of the public house to be changed to Red Lion and it seems that the property traded with that name for some time, reverting to the Black Lion by 1901.) Information from Harry Hawes’ memories of Reepham in the 1870s, Wesley Piercy’s A Story of Reepham Methodist Chapel and Michael Black’ s research on Reepham Moor in the 1990s. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Thatched Cottages, Orchard Lane Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2111251230 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 2021 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Reepham Moor Description An account of the resource Some information about thatched cottages in Reepham Moor and biographical details about Martin Luther Dewing, his family and his shop. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Dewing Orchard Lane RL Calendar 2021 thatched cottages https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/864dda6d3fe8e2da34543433f186412c.pdf 8a5e85e85f92561e8d7c48d408baab5e PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: September 14, 2021 Life of a chemist and stockist of photographic materials By Janet Archer Above the shop door in the calendar photograph (probably from the mid-1920s) we can see the name of Edward Jewell, chemist and druggist and stockist of photographic materials. Edward had grown up in Reepham where his father George was a veterinary surgeon. Edward joined the Royal Marines at the Portsmouth Depot in February 1871. Born in December 1853, he is listed as under age until December 1871. Eighteen must have been the qualifying age at that time. By 1881 Edward had been promoted to Colour Sergeant and had served on several ships including the Hecla. This ship was involved in the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882, an early action of the Anglo-Egyptian war, and Edward was awarded the Egypt Medal with the Alexandria Clasp and the Khedive's Star. After a career in the Royal Marines, which had ended in 1893, Edward finally became a farmer in Derbyshire, marrying a local girl, Sarah Redfearn. They were married in 1904 at the Friends Meeting House in Manchester. How long Edward had been a Quaker is not known but this may have been where he met Sarah since he was resident in Manchester in the 1901 census. Edward and Sarah first appear in the Hackford-next-Reepham electoral rolls in 1924. Edward died in 1934 and Sarah and their daughter Elizabeth continued running the shop and in the 1939 register still seem to be in the same premises. The photo below from the Reepham Archive is a postcard where Sarah has written on the back, “I am sending you a photo of our shop, & I was so angry I got snapped just as I was going in!” �The business later moved across the Market Place to Ivy House, next door to the Sun Inn. Reepham residents may remember Elizabeth Grace Jewell still maintaining the shop after her mother's death in 1959. Ivy House had previously been the site of Reepham's telephone exchange manned by Hester Wilton. By 1939 Hester had retired and the exchange was being managed by her daughter Gladys. A newspaper report from December 1944, after Hester's death, placed her as a “Woman in the News”. Evening Express April 24 1944 When the Jewells moved out of the 'Bank Building' the telephone exchange was moved across the Market Place to the house next to Gibbs's premises, and continued to be run by Hester's daughter Gladys and her husband Robert Claxton. A small plaque exists today just by the front door saying 'The Old Telephone Exchange'. Census information (inc.1939 Register) from Ancestry.co.uk Newspaper report from Find My Past.co.uk � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Life of a Chemist Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2111251200 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 2021 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Bank House, Reepham Description An account of the resource Details about Edward Jewell, his wife Sarah and their daughterElizabeth, who ran a chemist's shop in the 1920s. Also includes information about Reepham's telephone exchange. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Bank House Ivy House Jewell RL Calendar 2021 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/c31aa5df1a622446f109a5acb36ff73a.pdf a23fb2a71b1e1ffe13450956e7c10464 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: August 16, 2021 The Tale of Bertie Woods By Janet Archer Bertie Alfred Woods was born in 1894 to Samuel Woods and Lydia Elizabeth Seaman. The family lived in Barn Cottage and there were at least 14 children, most of whom went to Salle School. Bertie first attended school in 1899 :"Admitted Bertie Woods this week. He is over five years old and can do nothing." In January 1900 Bertie and two of his sisters Kate and Ethel are reported as absent with whooping cough but they apparently have not been to school since the previous August! March 23rd brings the comment that Bertie and Ethel are away again. At the end of 1891 Mary Jane Lomax had taken over the position of mistress at Salle School. Her first tasks recorded in the log book are ruling two dozen slates and drawing up a new timetable. She lived in the School House and stayed at Salle School until the end of 1903, so it is probably Mary Lomax who appears in this school photograph from 1900, and she will have written the above comment about Bertie. Most entries in the Salle and Reepham logbooks are mundane, daily records of attendance, closures due to sickness or seaside treats, and visits from school managers and inspectors. So the following incident is unusual. From 1903 the schoolmistress was Minnie Elizabeth Druitt and she recorded the following in the log book in 1906. (By this time Bertie is now about 12 years old and probably keen to leave school and some of his absences may have been to earn extra money for his family.) "Am sorry to say that Bertie Woods who is the most indolent boy in the school- is also very spiteful (going home) to young children & girls- Wrote a note to his parents but only received a rude answer." �When he next came to school the mistress asked him to write an apology on his slate. His mother came the following day and said he should sooner leave than write it. Accordingly she took him out of school and the mistress marked him left. Both Bertie and his brother Jesse left Salle School and instead went to Reepham School (St. Mary's on Norwich Road) where Richard Cornall was the master. When the First World War began Bertie enlisted in the 5th Norfolks at Dereham. Later he served with the Worcestershire Regiment. He is recorded as having died of wounds, age 23, in August 1917 and was buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium. His name is remembered on the memorial inside Salle Church, and he has a memorial with his mother and father in Salle churchyard. Information from National School Admission Registers & Log-Books, 1870-1914, @findmypast.co.uk; military Information from ancestry.co.uk Note : Bandaghem, like Dozinghem and Mendinghem, were the popular names given by the troops to groups of casualty clearing stations posted to this area of Belgium during the First World War. The sites were later used as military cemeteries near Poperinge in West Flanders. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Tale of Bertie Woods Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2111241630 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 2021 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Salle School Description An account of the resource Details about Bertie Woods, a pupil at Salle School in the early 1900s. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA RL Calendar 2021 Salle School Woods https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/0035bd20a2bfb3b1fbeadc6f567a7527.pdf ecd24107f14b4cca2717e3484eecaed9 PDF Text Text from the Archive Posted : July 17, 2021 Royal visitor ‘greatly impressed’ by young performers By Janet Archer During the Second World War, when many male and female adults were serving in the armed forces, the Reepham Band was dependent on its younger players. As the Reepham Junior Band the players performed over seventy concerts to members of the forces in the space of three years. In recognition of this effort, Queen Mary (widow of George V and grandmother of the present Queen), made a special visit to Reepham with two of her ladies-in-waiting in the summer of 1945 (as pictured in the August photo, above, in the Reepham Life 2021 Calendar). The Junior Band gave a concert in the Band Hall, conducted by Tommy Ruffles and were joined by the Primary Band conducted by Gordon Frankland. �There were solos by Pam Barsted on cornet and Derek Woods on euphonium, and Queen Mary received a bouquet of carnations presented by the very youngest band member, Pamela Reeder. The Band Hall was originally erected as a new home for the Band of Hope, a temperance movement which was launched in 1916, but by 1922 had expanded so much that it outgrew its original base in the United Methodist Chapel in Fishers Alley. With funding and support from Jesse Bircham, the chemist on Norwich Road, and John Walker who ran a household furnishing business, a large hall was built where the flats called The Maltings now stand. When it was first built it was known as the Methodist Hall and mainly used for Band of Hope activities and meetings, which included a brass band, a string orchestra and a choir. The movement began to decline in the 1930s and after Methodist Union the hall was eventually put up for sale. The Band of Hope brass band was still thriving and raised money to buy the hall, renamed it as the Band Hall and, under the leadership of Tommy Ruffles, the band became Reepham Town Temperance Band. Following the concert Lady Cynthia Colville, one of the ladies-in-waiting, wrote that Queen Mary had been "greatly impressed by the performance, by the intelligence & enthusiasm of the young performers - including the very young! - , by the delightful surroundings ( such a very pleasant hall & so beautifully decorated with flags & those lovely dahlias!)......". One wonders if they noticed the chairs at the back! Information from Reepham Archive, My Town by Wesley Piercy & The Reepham Town Band by Joyce Cox � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Royal visitor ‘greatly impressed’ by young performers Description An account of the resource A record of Queen Mary's visit to hear the Reepham Junior Band in 1945. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 2021 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Methodist Hall, Reepham Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2111041635 1945 Queen Mary Reepham Junior Band RL Calendar 2021 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/20c90cedb79d01277c1bbb3ddd074f7f.pdf ddaab9d671b56d737ce90959277472a0 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Thursday, May 27, 2021 Blacksmiths’ workshops and yards in Reepham By Janet Archer The June photo in the Reepham Life 2021 Calendar shows two farriers at the blacksmiths on the corner of Ollands Road and Malthouse Lane, Reepham. It is thought the two men are Walter Rudd and his brother, and that the photograph was taken in the 1930s. Reepham, like most towns and villages in the 18th and 19th century, had its share of blacksmiths’ workshops and yards, where horses could be shod, and wagons and carriages repaired. Larger workshops, like Eglington & Gooch, which existed on the site of the current Spar shop in Ollands Road, would employ a variety of skilled workmen, the blacksmith and his forge, carpenters and wheelwrights and, of course, a farrier for the specialised skill of shoeing horses. Above: Employees of Eglington & Gooch, c.1910 �Working closely with horses being shod means that a farrier needs knowledge of the anatomy of a horse and to be able to spot signs of infection or damage in the hoof or leg. Consequently, specialist farriers were often veterinary surgeons, and their work also involved the welfare of cattle and sheep. A horse also needs to be shod appropriately according to its size and role, such as hauling a cart on roads, pulling a plough across a field or being ridden for leisure. It is not surprising to find a public house next door to, or included within, a smithy, and in Reepham there are records, dating back to White’s Directory of 1832, showing the existence of a public house or beer house called the Farriers Arms, also known as the Horse Shoes. Above: Eglington & Gooch’s yard with houses in foreground, once the home of Robert Parker Gooch and, nearest the foreground, the Farriers Arms, both now demolished. Thomas Grand had the licence from the 1830s until Robert Parker Gooch took it over in the 1850s. A sale advertisement from the Norfolk Chronicle in 1835 indicates that a blacksmith’s and farrier’s trade had been in existence for some time before that. From the reports of a licensing meeting in 1906, Sidney Eglington, representing his grandfather, said that Robert had had a licence for 55 years and would find it hard to give it up. If the magistrates granted a licence a wholesale trade would continue to be carried on, as it was formerly. Superintendent Palmer was asked for a report and replied that he had measured the distance between all the various public houses in the town. He said that there was more trade done in the market now than when the witness was stationed there 13 years ago, and it was not uncommon for there to be 50 carts at the King’s Arms on a Wednesday. To the best of his knowledge no excise licence had been taken out for 19 years. The licence renewal was refused in June 1906. Information from Fifteen Locals by Joyce Cox; Norfolk News, 3 March 1906; norfolkpubs.co.uk � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Blacksmiths’ workshops and yards in Reepham Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 2021 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2110211630 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Description An account of the resource Description of a farrier's work with more information about Sidney Eglington's agricultural machinery business and the public beer house known as the Farriers Arms. Eglington Farriers Arms Gooch RL Calendar 2021 Rudd https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/64e868d93b44fbb1bee508133dcf4330.pdf 37bcd0b41ad5af2b741f8da66fe29be7 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Thursday, July 1, 2021 Changing business scene on Church Hill by Janet Archer The Reepham Life 2021 Calendar for July features a photograph of Church Hill. It shows the thatched house, Magpie House, covered in greenery and a view of the cottages on the lower part of Church Hill. Magpie House was for a long time a butcher’s premises and the thatched house has been occupied in the past by officers of the Salvation Army and, in the 1980s, the offices of M-Tec Computer Services. It was also the first home of Diane’s Pantry (now in the Market Place). The second view of Church Hill (above), taken from a slightly different angle, shows a blind over the butcher’s shop window, and past Magpie House can be seen a building with noticeboards attached: this was once the Farriers Arms (or the Horseshoes) beer house. �As well as the agricultural machinery business in Malthouse Yard, Sidney Eglington also ran an undertaking concern, and the noticeboards may have been used to announce news and arrangements for forthcoming funerals. He also owned the building opposite, now an outbuilding belonging to Magpie House, and at one time he let it to the Salvation Army for their services. The first cottage further down was a baker’s premises for many years, well into the 1920s. It has more recently been occupied by the Green Room clothing boutique, No. 21 pop-up art gallery and currently Koti Store, which sells refill household and bathroom products, including sourced vintage and locally made pieces. In the 1980s, the building housed the Wavy Line shop and later the first site of a small Spar shop. More well-known (in the early 2000s) it was Echo Antiques. Its use as a baker’s shop dates back at least to the 1830s, when it was run by Lydia Scurll, a younger sister of Brettingham Scurll, Parson Woodforde’s manservant. After the parson’s death in 1803, Brettingham, who would then have been about 40 years old, did not return to Reepham, but seems to have acquired freehold properties in Bergh Apton, where he was buried in 1842, aged 81. He came from a very large family and some of his Scurll relatives, including Lydia, are buried in Reepham churchyard. Lydia left the business and property in Church Street to a nephew named Brettingham Potter Scurll, and this Brettingham continued as a baker until he died in 1854. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Changing business scene on Church Hill Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2021 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2110211615 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Description An account of the resource History of some of the houses on Church Hill. Church Hill Diane's Pantry Echo Antiques M-Tec Magpie House RL Calendar 2021 Scurll https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/7e076ddbcb7e401e9584de4e3b1c2ef5.pdf a75af53f1e65410e7a5614cb1c8ae6ec PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Reepham chosen to host Oddfellows district meeting in 1907 By Janet Archer In the May photograph of the Oddfellows in the Reepham Life 2021 Calendar, we can see the huge banner declaring the fundamental principles of the association: friendship, love and truth. Officers of the society are displaying their sashes, and we can see one with “NG” indicating that he is the Noble Grand, or current president of a lodge, and another with the initials “PG” representing a Past Grand Master. The Eynsford Lodge was part of the East Dereham District group of lodges, and in 1907 Reepham was chosen to host the next district meeting since it was that lodge’s 50th anniversary. This photograph may have been taken to celebrate that occasion. Signs of a marquee can be seen in the background. More than 200 members and visitors, including Sir William Brampton Gurdon MP, dined in a marquee erected in Brownsell’s Pasture (Rookery Farm). By 1850, the Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity Friendly Society had become the largest and richest friendly society in Britain. It was established in 1810 having become dissatisfied with the way the Grand United Order was being run. The Industrial Revolution, the lack of trade unions, and the lack of personal or public insurance caused the growth of friendly and benevolent societies. Only by joining mutual friendly societies such as the Oddfellows could ordinary people protect themselves and their families against illness, injury or death. �Public houses were often used as the base for regular society business. When members met, they often “took something for the good of the house”. The Loyal Eynsford Lodge made use of the King’s Arms in Reepham and, after being formed in 1857, celebrated their anniversary each Whitsun by parading through the town, paying calls on their supporters at Whitwell Hall, Hackford Hall, The Limes and The Ollands before attendance at a church service. In 1875 more than 100 guests filled a marquee erected in the Market Place with dinner provided by host Berriman of the King’s Arms. Besides the annual Whit Sunday parade and church service, afternoons of sports and fun races were often arranged, followed by dancing in the evening. In the 1880s the fun races included a sack race, a three-legged race and climbing a greasy pole for a leg of mutton. The prizes were sums of money, e.g., 7s. 6d. for the winner of the sack race. Other events such as smoking concerts were also arranged to raise funds. The poster (below) shows such an event that took place in 1933. The Eynsford Lodge was still in existence in the 1970s, advertising itself in several Reepham Carnival programmes, but more recently the lodge has been superseded by the Heart of Norfolk branch based in Dereham. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reepham chosen to host Oddfellows district meeting in 1907 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 2021 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2110211615 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Description An account of the resource Notes about the Oddfellows in Reepham, including the celebration dinner in 1907. 1907 Oddfellows RL Calendar 2021 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/b6403e2fa125c013dc7162cee436ec48.pdf 3618ca2285e47e8bc85227ef7582aa3c PDF Text Text from the Archive Posted: 2021-02-16 Army cyclists billeted in Reepham We assume the soldiers with their bicycles in the photograph for March (above) in the Reepham Life 2021 Calendar were part of the Army Cyclist Corps during World War I, billeted in Reepham while they were training. The Reepham Archive has information about a young man called Jack Brahms, who spent some time training in the Reepham area with the 3rd City of London Yeomanry. After about six months training, he was sent to France where, in 1916, he was invalided out of the frontline trenches with severe frostbite. In the photograph (below) of his unit taken in Reepham, Jack is in the front row on the right. �Part of Jack’s story is told in a book by Jerry White about the Rothschild Buildings in Spitalfields, London. The Spitalfields area is famous for the Huguenot silk weavers who settled in the area in the 1700s, and later for the site of the Jack the Ripper murders in the late 19th century. The Jack the Ripper case highlighted how rundown and densely populated the area had become, full of common lodging houses, courts, alleys and interconnecting properties. Plans were made for demolition and rebuilding, resulting in tenements like the Rothschild Buildings where Jack lived. Typically, these flats consisted of two rooms with a small scullery and a shared toilet on the landing. The buildings were themselves eventually demolished in the 1970s and 1980s. Information and photograph about Jack Brahms from :Rothschild Buildings, Life in an East End Tenement Block 1887-1920 by Jerry White: Publisher: Vintage. ISBN 978-0-712601-46-7 Other information from londonremembers.com and wiki.casebook.org Janet Archer � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Army cyclists billeted in Reepham Description An account of the resource Information about Jack Brahms, billeted in Reepham during World War I. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2109161230 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 2021 Army Cyclist Corps RL Calendar 2021 soldiers WWI https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/708b3c76f32663b7b52d14528d78a63e.pdf 06c2effa3bff6136719c5d67933be0ff PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Monday, March 8, 2021 - 17:17 ‘Larger than life’ character was great supporter of civic activities The April photograph in the Reepham Life 2021 Calendar shows Sidney Parker Eglington (below, second from right) in his role as captain of Reepham Fire Brigade on the site of a fire in Salle. Sidney was a well-known character in the town with an agricultural machinery business at the bottom of Ollands Road. Sidney’s mother Jane had died in 1873 when he was a barely a year old and he was sent to live with his maternal grandparents. His brother Mark, aged about two and a half, went to his paternal grandfather Mark Eglington, who at that time farmed land in Whitwell, near Hackford Hall. As a young man Sidney worked with his grandfather Robert Parker Gooch, a veterinary surgeon and farrier, who also ran a beer house known as the Farrier’s Arms. Robert’s yard, pub and residence and yard were situated on the site of the present Spar shop and the new houses next to it. Robert originally came from Corpusty, where his father was also a vet, and moved to Reepham in the 1850s. Sidney (below seated on tractor) was a “larger than life” character – in girth as well, judging by the photographs of him. As well as running the agricultural machinery business and being fire chief, he also ran an undertaking concern. �Around the corner from Eglington & Gooch’s premises was a bakery, followed by the house of John Frankland, a tinsmith, and in 1902 Sidney married John’s daughter Blanche. Sidney died in 1948 having been involved in almost every aspect of life in Reepham: he was a parish councillor, vice-captain and captain of the fire brigade, and a member of the local Oddfellows lodge. He also played the part of Tambo in Reepham’s own minstrel troupe, The Black Diamonds, and was a great supporter of many town activities, including the bowls team and the primary school. Information from Reepham Society publications: Fifteen Locals by Joyce Cox and My Town by Wesley Piercy. Janet Archer � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource ‘Larger than life’ character was great supporter of civic activities Description An account of the resource Family details about Sidney Parker Eglington and his working partnership with his grandfather Robert Parker Gooch. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 2021 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2103161445 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Eglington Frankland Gooch RL Calendar 2021 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/5a0bb45d20d3d11789f92b5ce863ab27.pdf c79fe8627e22c39cf47dd087247a3dd1 PDF Text Text from the Archive Posted: 2021-01-12 Most villages once had a ‘pound’ for stray livestock The Reepham Life 2021 Calendar picture (below) for February shows the Towns End crossing with railings of the old Pound just visible at the bottom right. It is thought this photo was taken in the 1890s when Dereham Road was called Pound Road. Another place used more recently as a pound was the grassed area in front of St Michael’s. A pound was a necessary feature of many English villages and towns, especially useful on market days – it was used to hold stray sheep, pigs and cattle until they were claimed by the owners. Early pounds just had hedges; later ones were built in stone or brick, making them more stockproof, like the one shown in the photograph (below) that is still in existence at North Elmham. Above: North Elmham Pound: built around 1830 to pen stray animals. Photo: John Wernham/The Village Pound/CC BY-SA 2.0 �A typical market day in Reepham in the 1880s would include the sale of pigs, poultry, sheep and cattle. By 1881 Ireland’s, the auctioneers, were advertising that Reepham Station was open for cattle and the following year stated that drovers could be hired at both Whitwell and Reepham stations. 1877 saw the setting up of Ireland’s sale ground on what is now the car park on Station Road; sales continued there until 1972. The amount of stock involved, with cattle being driven from the station and other stock arriving in horse-drawn carts, inevitably led to accidents. In 1886, a cart of pigs from Heydon was nearing the sale ground when a pig broke loose from the market and frightened the horse, causing it to break away from the cart and set off at great pace down the hill. It was eventually stopped near the cemetery on Whitwell Road, but not until after it had collided with a cartload of ducks, belonging to a Mr Hubbard, going to market. Mr Hubbard’s cart was wrecked, but neither his horse nor the runaway horse were badly injured and the ducks escaped unhurt. Information from Norwich Mercury, 3 October 1903, and Wikipedia. Janet Archer � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Most villages once had a ‘pound’ for stray livestock Description An account of the resource Information about the uses of a village pound. <br /><br />Further info from Jane Wood rcvd via Reepham Life &amp; Ann Middlemas January 2021 :-<br /><br />The land surrounded by a brick wall which currently makes up the driveway and north garden of the house Moorcroft (on The Moor) was, I've been told, a place to keep animals overnight before market. So I guess another pound? In the 1960s it was used to dry fireman's hoses which were at the time made from canvas.<br /><em>The Woods moved to Moorcroft in 1950. John Wood (d 2017) was a respected vet who, though retired, was still working in the 1990s - and riding on a massive horse to shop in the Market Place.</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 2021 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2103161355 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Dereham Road pound Pound Road RL Calendar 2021 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/3c6c492d648b86758604d1f2dc7b11c0.pdf 5d77eae26ed38d45f62789621dc41be9 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Thursday, December 3, 2020 Delivering milk in a cold 1950s winter The January picture (above) in the Reepham Life 2021 Calendar shows milk being delivered on Dereham Road in a very cold winter in the 1950s, with the house now known as Tyler’s Mead in the background. A photograph (below) from the Reepham Archive in postcard format shows the house in the early 1900s. In the 1901 census, Edward Le Neve is registered as living in the house with his wife Florence. They were married in August 1900 in Oxnead parish and in the register Florence’s maiden name is given as Browne with her father named as Charles Edward Browne. At the time of the marriage, Charles employed 10 men in the milling business and a further 10 on his 250-acre farm. �The card is postmarked 1907 and addressed to Mrs C. Browne in Marsham. Although the signature of the sender is not clear (it may have been a family nickname), this information allows us to assume that the writer was Florence since the message begins “Dear Mother”. Edward Le Neve was the local registrar and relieving officer for the Aylsham Union – Reepham was part of that union at the time. The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act introduced a national welfare system of poor relief with administrative areas called “poor law unions”. Each union was run by an elected board of guardians. The relieving officers had to identify the poor and needy in their district, visiting applicants in their homes to assess their health and living conditions, and offer appropriate financial relief and medical help if necessary. By 1907 Edward and Florence had two children, Florence and Arthur. Arthur was born in 1902 and is probably the child in the second photograph. He attended Reepham National School (St Mary’s, Norwich Road) until July 1915, when he is recorded as “transferred”. The family presumably moved to Aylsham as by 1920 Edward is found in the town’s electoral roll. Janet Archer � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Delivering milk in a cold 1950s winter Description An account of the resource Dick Vout delivering milk on Dereham Road. Details about Edward Le Neve who lived at Tyler's Mead in the early 1900s. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 2020 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2103161350 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Dereham Road RL Calendar 2021 Tylers Mead Vout https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/9cfab2510d765331d2c5340ea2158d03.pdf 406145b07a140b78961259e9b77408ee PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 History of Hackford House in the 1900s This year (2019) Reepham is celebrating the centenary of the presentation of Hackford House to the town by Samuel Bircham as a memorial to lives lost in the First World War. Hackford House in about 1906 In the 1920s, the house sustained its original purpose of providing a reading room where newspapers and periodicals could be read, and a billiards room, with facilities for other games as well as the parish library. Rooms were also available for other organisations such as the whist club. From about 1927 the County Library had a room in what was then called the Bircham Institute that opened two or three times a week, manned by volunteers. Mr Thompson, the schoolmaster, was librarian. At some point before 1919 part of the house had been used by Wallace King for the Reepham branch of its home furnishings company. Samuel Bircham probably purchased Hackford House in 1910 from Fanny Spencer, the eldest daughter of John and Harriet Spencer. John Redman Spencer, previously a farmer with land in Guestwick, had died in 1909. A second daughter, Florence, had lived with her parents until her father died. After the house was sold, Florence lived with her sister Fanny in Norwich. In the 1911 census, the occupants of Hackford House are recorded as Jemima Bruce (widow) and her daughter Margaret, who occupied eight rooms in part of the building. At least one other room was used as a club room by the newly formed Hackford House Troop of Scouts. The Bruce family had lived on the Isle of Man, but in 1900 Alexander Bruce, manager of Dumbell’s Bank and head of many important Manx enterprises, was involved in the failure of the bank. He had been ill for some time and died before he could face prosecution. His wife Jemima and three daughters left the Isle of Man and in 1901 the two older daughters, �Margaret and Agnes, were living in the Old Brewery House. Agnes would later (in 1903) marry Francis R. S. Bircham, Samuel Bircham’s only son. Jemima Bruce remained in Reepham for some time, living in part of Hackford House with her eldest daughter Margaret and later moving to Norwich. Janet Archer � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hackford House in the 1900s Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2019 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2010301815 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Description An account of the resource Written to promote interest in the Bircham Centre centenary celebrations in summer 2019. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA 1900s Bircham Centre Hackford House RL Calendar 2019 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/5ad0c8327bed937d13467c1e0fc06601.pdf 5658eb63976dd3058648c2027057ceaf PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Thursday, October 10, 2019 Non-conformists in Reepham In the 1920s, as well as the two Anglican churches in Reepham, there were three Methodist chapels, as well as the Salvation Army and the Plymouth Brethren. Buildings in use at the time included the Wesleyan Chapel on Station Road, built in 1817. The picture (above) of the 1910 circuit meeting in the Reepham Life 2019 Calendar for November shows the chapel before the schoolroom was built. An earlier picture (below) from the Reepham Archive shows the chapel with the old schoolroom entrance on the east side coming right down to the road. In 1847, a Baptist chapel was built in Fisher’s Alley, later taken over by the Free Methodists, which amalgamated with another group to become the United Methodists. This chapel closed when the three main Methodist bodies amalgamated in 1932 and the congregation transferred to Station Road. �The chapel was sold and became a carpenter’s workshop and afterwards was used by the Good Companions’ Club. It has since been demolished and two houses now stand on the site. It is thought that an upper window (overlooking Fisher’s Alley) in the new houses was one of the stained glass windows from the old chapel. The Primitive Methodist chapel on Dereham Road was first built in 1847, then rebuilt in 1867. The congregation moved to the Station Road chapel after the Methodist Union in 1932. By 1936 it had become the headquarters for the Reepham Fire Station. It is now a private residence. In the late 1800s, the Salvation Army established itself in the town by hiring premises in Norwich Road from Sidney Eglington. Two officers are registered in the 1901 census: William Mackenzie, Captain, and Walter Wise, Lieutenant, in a house on Norwich Road, both young and single. In the same census, an Amelia Hudson in Newland Villas is also named as a Salvation Army preacher. In the early 1900s, a congregation of Plymouth Brethren was active in Reepham and had premises in a building owned by a man called Jennings at Towns End. It is called a Mission Room in the 1911 census and is possibly the Gospel Room that stood on the site of what is now Reepham Hair Studio. (Some information from My Town by Wesley Piercy.) Janet Archer � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nonconformists in Reepham Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1910161515 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Description An account of the resource Nonconformist chapels and places of worship in Reepham during the 1800s and early 1900s. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Reepham Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 2019 Fishers Alley Methodist Primitive Methodist RL Calendar 2019 Salvation Army Station Road https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/ae85a78d28cae1e8a94559df517dc5b5.pdf 6a719098f85ab2744de0717f0dc3a6f4 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Monday, September 16, 2019 A hive of business activity on Norwich Road October’s photograph from the Reepham Life 2019 Calendar shows a very quiet picture of Norwich Road, Reepham, in the early 1900s (probably on a Monday, judging by the washing hanging out). The first building on the right housed a harness maker, John Rooke: saddles and harnesses can be seen draped over the wall. He later moved to Cawston, but kept a shop on the other side of the road, which can be seen on the left in the picture below, taken later. The railings in both pictures have disappeared, but the holes in the top of the wall, in front of the modern houses, can still be seen. The ground where John Rooke built his new shop was at one time a garden belonging to Jesse Bircham, the chemist whose shop can be seen in the second picture. Jesse’s mother Hannah had worked for Thomas Staples, another chemist, for many years and carried on the business after he died in 1858. Jesse joined the business with his mother in the 1890s and continued until his death in 1925. �Further along on the right was the house lived in by the Beaver family. Still called Beaver House, it was bought by Catherine Gooch’s father when she married Arnold Beaver in the 1890s and Arnold ran a grocery and drapery, and also sold household furnishings and tea. Arnold later became an assessor and collector of taxes and in 1922 was appointed a Justice of the Peace. Around the time of the calendar photograph, other occupants of Norwich Road included a veterinary surgeon, a grocer and draper, a boot and shoemaker, Salvation Army officers, a plumber, a painter/decorator and later a butcher, whose shop was in the building behind the children. Janet Archer � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A hive of business activity on Norwich Road Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 2019 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Norwich Road Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1909241230 Description An account of the resource Norwich Road in the early 1900s, with brief details about Beaver House, Jesse Bircham and John Rooke. Beaver Bircham Norwich Road RL Calendar 2019 Staples