2 20 48 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/b6b2087de629f17f951450b9d960688a.pdf ef3cf88b4371e8878a8a5a7ea0e38f12 PDF Text Text Reepham Troupe of Black Diamonds Reepham Life December 2016 Issue A recent find in the Archive is a handmade notebook belonging to Edward Gibbs (the owner of Gibbs Ironmongers Shop in Reepham Market Place). It contains many examples of jokes and riddles that Edward Gibbs scripted for Reepham Troupe of Black Diamonds in the early 1900s. Minstrel groups were a very popular form of entertainment and although professional groups had faded by the early 1900s and were being replaced by vaudeville and music hall, amateur groups continued to flourish. A contemporary programme from 1911 shows a format of humorous songs and instrumental items, interspersed with comedy patter. A photograph of the Black Diamonds from 1911 shows the group in black make-up and wigs so it is difficult identify individuals but we can identify the chief comedy characters as they have exaggeratedly large bow-ties. The Interlocutor was master of ceremonies and essentially the 'straight man' while the duo of Tambo and Bones kept the humour going with jokes and riddles. Marjorie Gibbs, born in 1899, wrote in 'I Remember' (memories of her Reepham childhood in the early 1900s) :'With several people from other parts of town and surrounding district the musical gentlemen of the market place formed a highly successful minstrel troupe, calling themselves 'The Black Diamonds'. Mr Le Neve, from Dereham Road, was Interlocutor, the two corner men were my father, Edward Gibbs, as Bones and Sidney Eglington as Tambo. When the Black Diamonds were formed their first performance was given at a garden fete held in the grounds of Dr. Perry's house. A covered proscenium was erected, the string band accompanied and it was all a huge success. The stage was lit by electricity supplied through the gardens by land line from Mr John Dixon, who had the cycle shop on the corner of Towns End.' JDA � 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. 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Title A name given to the resource Reepham Troupe of Black Diamonds Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 2016 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907142050 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 Early performances of the minstrel group, particularly at a Garden Fete with electric lighting provided by Dixon's shop at Towns End Corner. 1911 Black Diamonds Dixon fete Gibbs RL Calendar 2016 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/69c19b99e15fccc016808fbdb6c1afcd.pdf ea841d6d4d72e30360324fd0f9b51b6c PDF Text Text from the Archive Reepham Life Nov/Dec 2016 James, Hester & Mary : The Reepham Connection In March 1976 Marjorie Gibbs wrote to the Eastern Daily Press, in response to previous items about James, Hester and Mary. Marjorie recalls them :'coming to our back door and mother used to give them a meal. Because they were too smelly and dirty they did not come into the house but ate their meal in the stable, feeding themselves with fingers which were preferred to knives and forks. Esther had to be hand fed as she was blind and was never taken out of the pram.' �Marjorie's uncle Frederic J Gibbs had a watchmaker's and tobacconist's shop at Towns End. He is named as a photographer age 29 in the 1911 Census when he was living with his uncle Edward Gibbs, the ironmonger, and probably took many of the old photographs of Reepham. Marjorie says that Frederic took photographs of the three vagrants and printed them on postcards (which they sold for 2d.) with the following verse : Here's Jimmy and Mary and Esther you see, A typical picture of poverty; With just a few rags to cover their ribs, This photo was taken by F. J. Gibbs. In April 1976 came another response with additional photographs from a Mr Wade of Foulsham. Why they were referred to as 'Minstrels' is a mystery. � 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. 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Title A name given to the resource James, Hester & Mary : The Reepham Connection Description An account of the resource Further information about James, Hester and Mary the three vagrants. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Nov/Dec 2016 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907141850 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 Relation A related resource GB/REE/1901281135 GB/REE/1901281231 GB/REE/1907141800 1900s Barnes vagrants https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/c77ca46c7ca1c69401cd51aea8da1bb9.pdf bc83ba9a0052e367379a4f606d692179 PDF Text Text from the Archive Posted Tue, 2016-11-01 Reepham connection sought for Norfolk ‘vagrants’ The characters in this photograph have long been a mystery in Reepham and for a time it was thought the name on the cart was “Hester Banmer”, that they were called Jimmy, Hester and Mary Banmer, and that all three lived somewhere in the Reepham area. Recent research has uncovered a little about their possible background (look at the “r” in Hester and compare it with the third letter of the second name). Their names were possibly James Barnes, his wife Hester Barnes and Ann Mary Burroughs (or Burrows), who were registered on the 1901 England Census as the last entry for Burnham Westgate. They are not listed in a house or dwelling, but are grouped together and entered as “vagrants” and were “All layed out Thorpe Road all night” – it appears they had spent the night in the open somewhere along Thorpe Road on the edge of Burnham Westgate. Other details on the census show that James was born in South Creake, Hester in Sedgeford and Ann Mary in Wells. In the 1911 census Hester and Ann are both inmates of Docking Workhouse. We assume James had died since Hester is described as a widow. (The date of James’s death is uncertain because there are several deaths recorded for a James Barnes between 1901 and 1911 in the Docking area.) It is difficult to see how the tricycle in this photo works. The driving wheel spokes are clearly wooden, so the wheel rim should be wooden as well. However, the cart seems to have bare metal wheels.The pedals are recognisable, but what is the long spike behind the wheel? Is it a braking mechanism? And did the two women take turns in the cart or did Ann Mary always have to walk? The look on James’s face suggests he was concentrating hard, maybe to keep still while the photograph was taken. Perhaps the Reepham connection was to do with the photographer rather than the people themselves? The Reepham Archive has just found the following rhyme that was written on photographs printed as postcards and sold for twopence: Here’s Jimmy, Mary and Esther you see, A typical trio of poverty; With just a few rags to cover their ribs, This photo was taken by F. J. Gibbs. Fred Gibbs was a nephew of Edward Gibbs (Ironmonger & Seed Merchant). 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 Reepham connection sought for Norfolk vagrants Description An account of the resource Initial research about Jimmy, Hester & Mary Ann, three vagrants familar to Reepham inhabitants in the early 1900s. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907141800 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 Relation A related resource GB/REE/1901281135 GB/REE/1901281231 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2016 1900s Barnes vagrants https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/dfe5623d3e0b66feddaf22502498cab7.pdf 881d961c3d46bb2c59fd0b5f4edae192 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Thursday, May 9, 2019 Whitwell Street pub well known for selling vinegar In her publication Fifteen Locals, Joyce Cox writes: “The Star [pictured in the Reepham Life 2019 Calendar for June], once known as The Cock, was very old-fashioned with sand on the floor. “There was no bar counter; all drinks had to be brought up from the cellar. It was also well known for selling vinegar. The last landlord, William Morris, had been a ‘clicker’ (he hand-cut shoes) in a Norwich shoe factory. “Henry Hawes writes of its Whitsuntide Tuesday sports. Whitwell Street was used for races and a small field belonging to the pub for a ploughing match. “The Star closed in 1935 and is now a private house known as the Old Star – but no longer permitted by its deeds to sell vinegar!” Census records tell us that it was a beerhouse or pub in 1841 with John Rayner as the victualler. In two censuses it is called the Cock Inn, but reverts to The Star by 1878. Frederick Watson was the licensee from 1896 till 1905. He was also a house painter but must have enjoyed life as a publican as in the 1911 census he is recorded as the landlord of the Sun Inn with his wife Ellen and sons Stanley and Clifford. Frederick carried on working as a painter and decorator as well as running The Sun. His son Stanley was apprenticed to Edward Gibbs, ironmonger, continuing to work for Gibbs for a number of years. His second son Clifford took over the licence in 1922 and is well-remembered in Reepham, as is his wife Violet, who continued running The Sun after Clifford’s death in 1962. 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. 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Title A name given to the resource Whitwell Street pub well known for selling vinegar Description An account of the resource Background to The Star, a public house on Whitwell Street, with details about its landlords William Morris and Frederick Watson. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 2019 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131035 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 public house RL Calendar 2019 Star Watson Whitwell Street https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/8b003c4eee37fed8000979ea2e8744ed.pdf 641caf98700363104ef7b2cca68b6f05 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Thursday, April 11, 2019 Musical events raise community funds In the late 1800s and early 1900s musical events were a common occurrence in Reepham and were often given to raise funds for more street lighting, church repairs, and other charitable concerns. Concerts in St Mary’s School were given each winter to raise money to supply a quantity of coal to the poor of the parish. Major outdoor celebrations, such as Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887 and Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and the coronation of Edward VII in 1902, would call for the band of the 3rd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers. Various musical groups were formed in Reepham in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, including the Hackford Glee Singers, Hackford and Whitwell Musical Society, Reepham String Band, Reepham Handbell Ringers and Reepham Troupe of Black Diamonds. Pictured in the Reepham Life 2019 Calendar for May, the photograph (above) of Reepham Orchestral Band taken in 1910 includes familiar names like Edward Gibbs Jnr; James Dixon from the shop at Towns End Corner; James Wasey, tinsmith; F. Hurn, who later worked for Gibbs; and George Juby, tailor. Arthur Lubbock, on the left of the back row, was a gardener and groom for Reverend Lanchester at Salle Rectory. Next to him, Harry Youngman was a railway clerk and son of Reepham’s stationmaster. In 1915 he enlisted in the British Army while working as a railway clerk at Stratford goods station. In 1916 Harry had spent two months in hospital at Church Stretton in Shropshire recovering from wounds in the head and neck, but a year later was reported missing and later presumed dead. He is commemorated on the World War I memorial tablet in St Mary’s Reepham, and also on the Cambrai Memorial in Louverval, France. The photo below shows the band of the 3rd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, established about 1860. Seated, front row (left to right): Thomas Pitcher, William Huggins, Henry Hawes, James Wasey and John Flatman (drummer). Standing, back row (left to right): Alfred Barber (conductor), a visitor, �Thomas Morris and Fred Hudson. 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 Musical events raise community funds Description An account of the resource Members of Reepham Orchestral Band in the early 1900s; charitable events; band of the 3rd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 2019 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907132140 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 Dixon Gibbs Hurn Juby Lubbock RL Calendar 2019 Wasey https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/70d6218ded18714d1858a3f1a929b0b8.pdf b365a9e3cceffce15db8f63738d21cf7 PDF Text Text from the Archive Farm life in Salle Street Post date: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 In the mid-1930s the terrace pictured in the April photo of the Reepham Life 2019 Calendar of eight homes in The Street, Salle, were the homes of the families of Barber, Stearman, Arthurton, Hardesty, Clements and Mallett. Going back through the years some of these names, like Stearman, Barber and Clements, appear in earlier census records. Further back we find the Gladden, Page and Allen families living in The Street, and in 1871 the name Timbers appears in four of the cottages. Through all the censuses most of the occupations, naturally, were related to farm work, cattle and horses, along with a regular blacksmith. Occasionally we find a carpenter, a brick-makers’ labourer, a shoemaker and a fish jobber, and, according to the 1851 census, in the middle of The Street lived a rat destroyer with his wife who was a fortune teller! In 1861, in the middle of the houses in The Street, a William Gladden was running a grocery shop as well as being a farm worker and the parish clerk. In 1881 a few railway workers appear. The longest-running resident seems to have been Joseph Leeds, born in Reepham in 1801, who ran the White Horse inn at the top of The Street for at least 30 years. Each publican running the White Horse was also a farmer of between 20 and 40 acres, usually employing one or two labourers. The surname Leeds was prolific in the Reepham area and it is a difficult task to unravel the various Leeds families since Joseph’s son Stephen William Leeds married another Leeds, Frances Ann, her father being another Stephen Leeds! Stephen William Leeds became the proprietor of the ironmongery business in Reepham’s Market Place and was living there with Frances and their two children in 1881, selling the business to Edward Gibbs in 1888. Frances and her mother-in-law Elizabeth lived on after their respective husbands had died, probably in Church House on Church Hill, Reepham, and were still registered there in 1901. (None of these Leeds was directly related to the Stephen Leeds who owned a tannery and farm at Whitwell.) 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 Farm life in Salle Street Description An account of the resource Identification of some of the families who lived on Salle Street in the 1800s, particularly Joseph Leeds, landlord of the White Horse. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 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 1800s Salle Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907132115 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 Gladden Leeds RL Calendar 2019 Salle Salle Street https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/7d3850547a3ea6c913e483bf87d2dbf5.pdf cf71418401c29227117f6881d0e95b46 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 Varied history for Towns End Corner shop The corner shop at Towns End (currently V’s Café) has had a varied history. The March photo in the Reepham Life 2019 Calendar shows it when it was run by George Grief, selling radios, televisions, domestic appliances and, of course, bicycles. He took over the shop in the 1940s, moving from Wood Dalling, and lived in Reepham for at least 50 years. In its lifetime the shop has also been a grocers and drapers. In the 1920s there were at least seven grocery shops in Reepham. Three of these were in the Market Place, one in Back Street, one on Towns End Corner (Frost’s, which later moved to Station Road), one at Station Plain and one at The Moor. The earliest picture in the Reepham Archive shows the proprietor as James John Dixon, who began his working life as a blacksmith in Wood Dalling, later moving to Reepham as a cycle maker. He was an agent for Triumph and also Humber, who were both manufacturers of cycles, motorcycles and later of cars. In 1910 he supplied an electrical landline from his premises to Dr Perry’s garden (Eynsford House) to supply lighting on the occasion of a grand garden fete, where a stage was set up and lit for the first performance of Reepham Black Diamonds. The picture below shows the shop as a grocery store with garage facilities, including petrol pumps for Shell and BP, possibly in the 1920s. The garage building next to it was later acquired by Norwich Corporation Electricity Department. Correction The caption for the February picture of the Roger Korval sports shop in the Reepham Life 2019 Calendar should have read 1980s and not 1960s. 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 Varied history for Towns End Corner shop Description An account of the resource Brief history of the shop at Towns End Corner, currently V's Cafe. Previous proprietors had been George Grief, Ada Frost and J. Dixon. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 2019 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907132050 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 Dixon Frost Grief RL Calendar 2019 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/02b0917439f77d8a16d5c289e87a2737.pdf 47df2d29f6568517a62d5d74daac9695 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Thursday, January 10, 2019 Ironmonger’s shop open all hours The February photo (below) of the Reepham Life 2019 Calendar shows the Roger Korval Sports shop in Market Place, Reepham, possibly in the 1960s. Many Reepham inhabitants will remember that this shop was once an ironmonger’s and seed merchant’s store run by the Gibbs family. When Edward Gibbs took over the business in 1888 it had been trading for many years, previously by Stephen Leeds and before that by the George family, who were running the shop in the 1830s. The shop front itself remains remarkably similar to the earliest photographs we have (below), including the railings, which are still a feature of several buildings in the Market Place. �By the early 1900s Edward Gibbs had expanded into the building next door and his son, Edward Gibbs junior, recounted in a newspaper article how he had to remove 16 shutters ready for the shop to open at 7 am. The shop was open until 7 pm every day, except Thursdays when it closed at 4 pm (half-day closing!) and Saturdays when it stayed open until 10 pm. The article lists items that were once in everyday use: tortoise stoves (so-called because they burned fuel very slowly), larding needles, goffering irons (for ironing frills and ruffles), leather for pump clacks and lamp glasses for oil lamps. A hundred years from today people might be just as intrigued by the objects for sale in Reepham Home Hardware! Reepham Archive has a small selection of items from the shop, including a selection of kitchen tinware made by James Wasey. When Edward Gibbs senior retired he moved into The Laurels (previously Veranda House) on Dereham Road. His son Edward and daughter Marjorie continued to run the business until December 1966. Marjorie is commemorated by the bench that stands near the pharmacy in the Market Place. 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 Ironmonger’s shop open all hours Description An account of the resource The early days of Gibbs' ironmongers shop. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 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 1900s Gibbs Shop Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907132030 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 Gibbs Gibbs Shop Korval RL Calendar 2019 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/f3c28f6c1068ef43834db7145f294bce.pdf cc12aa639b553bcbf19b0cb45c4049af PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Decline in fortunes of the Leamon family of Whitwell Hall The cover photo of the Reepham Life 2019 Calendar shows the Leamon family outside Whitwell Hall in 1884. In 1871 the farm and tannery business was being run by Robert Leamon, an ardent politician and prominent agriculturist. The farm covered 1,300 acres, employing 38 farm workers with 18 boys and five women, and the tannery business employed a further 20 men. Robert committed suicide in 1878 and it was left to his sons Philip and Arthur to continue the business. (The eldest son, also a Robert, had become a clergyman.) By 1881 Philip had married Elizabeth Reed and was living a typical gentleman farmer’s life at Whitwell Hall, hunting with the North Norfolk Harriers, giving harvest suppers for his workers, being a churchwarden, playing cricket and entertaining the local choir. But by 1884 he was on the verge of bankruptcy and the sale was announced of the Whitwell Hall estate and tannery. In 1887 all the livestock on the Whitwell estate was put up for auction as well as the household contents. In 1888 Philip applied for discharge from bankruptcy, but he had continued to contract debts knowing that he could not repay them. In 1891 there were six children and Elizabeth was teaching them on her own at home at an address in Norwich. Eventually, she was admitted to hospital suffering from melancholia. In 1894, supported by Samuel Bircham and other local dignitaries, an appeal was made for financial help for the grandchildren of Robert Leamon, reminding people how generous Robert had been towards the local poor. 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 Decline in fortunes of the Leamon family of Whitwell Hall Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 2018 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907132000 Description An account of the resource After the suicide of his father Robert, Philip Leamon and his brother Arthur took over the farming and tannery business. Philip soon got into debt leading to bankruptcy which resulted in the sale of the Whitwell Hall Estate. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Leamon RL Calendar 2019 tannery Whitwell Hall https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/388d61e5639d18f29da59b4245e6b15e.pdf 8cf0b3d08ad7c7ab7cc007070ea203d7 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Monday, November 12, 2018 Recalling the thrilling days of the old manual fire engine The happy band of volunteer firefighters shown in the December photograph of the Reepham Life 2018 Calendar dates from May 1936 when the disused Primitive Methodist Church on Dereham Road had been purchased for the Fire Brigade by Edward Gibbs. Reepham Fire Station on Dereham Road, possibly late 1930s. Newspaper reports said the building had a “splendid frontage which affords a clean take-off from any angle. Mr Edwards Gibbs, sen., has had alterations made so that the brigade can stand both their engines and all their equipment in one place.” Previously the old hand-engine had been stored on land in the area of Old Brewery Lane. Reepham’s fire brigade had been established for about 100 years, beginning with manual pumps carried on a horse-driven van. Putting out a fire required a source of water and one report of a fire in December 1938 tells of the pump being placed at Sun Barn Pit (a large pond that existed in front of the present fire station) with more than 2,000 feet of hose run out through Church Street to the back of the Old Rectory. Inches of ice had to be broken before pumping could begin and several lengths of hose burst, the escaping water turning into sheets of ice within minutes. In 1938, at the fire brigade’s annual dinner held at the Sun Inn, Edward Gibbs “recalled the days of the old manual engine. Those were the days of plenty of thrills, first in clashing the church bells, then the process of loading the engine onto a waggon, and then, upon arrival at the fire to have a look around, send someone straight away for bread and cheese and beer.” �Whitwell Road showing Sun Barn Pit. 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. 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Title A name given to the resource Recalling the thrilling days of the old manual fire engine Description An account of the resource Photograph showing the use of the disused Primitive Methodist Chapel on Dereham Road as the new fire station. Comments from Edward Gibbs on the use of the old manual fire engine. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1930s Reepham Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131915 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 1930s Dereham Road fire engine Gibbs Primitive Methodist RL Calendar 2018 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/6cc36463be2ab7cdc6c5bfc639ebf988.pdf f13e6fbfbaecbf294a413930f1ae2f3d PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Hackford House as a First World War hospital The November picture in the Reepham Life 2018 Calendar shows Hackford House (now the Bircham Centre) as a First World War hospital. At the outbreak of the war, the British Red Cross had already secured buildings, equipment and staff, and was able to set up temporary hospitals as soon as wounded men began to arrive from abroad. By December 1914, Reepham Red Cross Hospital was in operation as a 12-bed VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) Auxiliary Hospital No. 52, the first wounded having arrived at the “Parish Hall from Norwich conveyed in motor cars lent by local gentlemen”. Samuel Bircham had donated the use of the Scouts’ Club Room (at the back of the Bircham Centre garden) as a kitchen facility and later gave permission for Hackford House to be used, which accounts for the number of “Hospital Blues” in the calendar photograph. Permanent staff included a commandant (Lady Grace Barry of Witchingham Hall), a quartermaster, a matron, some full-time nurses and a number of VAD nurses. Many local volunteers from Reepham provided cooking, cleaning, laundering and night-duty support.Each volunteer had a record card and the card of Nan Bircham (Samuel Bircham’s daughter-in-law) is shown below. �Her sister, Dorothy Bruce, is also on the list, and although she gives a Norwich address, we can probably assume that she spent some nights at the Old Brewery House, where Nan lived with her children Merrick, Michael and Ann. Also pictured is the card of Dr E.V. Perry, medical officer-in-charge, who lived at Eynsford House. 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. 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Title A name given to the resource Hackford House as a First World War hospital Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 2018 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131855 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 Details of the officials, Dr Perry (Medical Officer in charge), Lady Grace Barry (Commandant) ; record cards for Nan Bircham and her sister Dorothy Bruce. Barry Bruce Hackford House hospital Perry RL Calendar 2018 WWI https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/b940db4357a421cb77f39566b0869c87.pdf e43f816f3e7f6d8fad2bf7ac3bbeca97 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Monday, September 17, 2018 On your bike: cyclists in the Market Place The October picture in the Reepham Life 2018 Calendar shows several cyclists in Reepham’s Market Place, photographed after 1987. The photograph below shows men from a First World War cycle regiment on parade in the Market Place, possibly 1916. Some may have been billeted in the area. (An archive photograph shows two soldiers on Reepham Moor with rifles on their bicycles.) A bicycle was an ideal means of transportation as it was comparatively lightweight. It could be carried over obstructions and, as well as being ridden, could be loaded with equipment and pushed. A motorcycle was faster, but a bicycle was silent. Volunteer cyclist units started in Great Britain in the 1880s. The official Army Cyclist Corps was formed in 1914. In the early days military cyclists proved their worth, and there were numerous reports of their bravery in the British cycling press. But trench warfare forced the reassignment of soldiers from cyclist units to infantry units, and although bicycles were still used extensively throughout the war by all sides, there was less need for actual cyclist units. A cyclist’s duties included reconnaissance, security patrols and courier work. Cyclists were used to cycle along communications trenches, which was particularly important if the security of the trench telephone system was found to have been compromised by enemy receiving stations. The British Army’s Cyclist Training Manual 1907 (as revised in 1911) was replete with items as how to salute while standing by, sitting on and riding the bicycle, drill movements such as “Ground Cycles”, “Take Up Cycles” and “Stack and Unstack Cycles”, and helpful advice on care of bicycles such as “Bicycle tyres should be wiped with a damp cloth after a march, so that all grit, which if left might cause a puncture, may be removed.” 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 On your bike: cyclists in the Market Place Description An account of the resource The role of cyclists in WWI. Reference to their training manual. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 2018 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131645 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 Army Cyclist Corps RL Calendar 2018 soldiers WWI https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/ef38c06608c2ab4621cd76636ae1c49f.pdf 196573b9c8e386e59504d41c9ad0a91a PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 The rise and fall of primary school numbers The September picture in the Reepham Life 2018 Calendar shows the Reepham Primary School Class 2 of 1937. Hackford and Whitwell School was built on the current site of the primary school in School Road, Reepham, in the 1890s, replacing the previous school building in Church Street, which is now the Town Hall. The present Town Hall had been the original Hackford and Whitwell Parochial School dating from the 1860s and paid for by subscription. With a rising population the Church Street premises had become too cramped for the increasing numbers of children. Reepham parish also had a school – St Mary’s on Norwich Road, where Richard Cornall was the headmaster from 1896 (taking over from Susan Goddard) until 1912. Entries from St Mary’s log book show the importance of attendance in relation to funds granted to the school by the School Board. Regular visits were made to check on the attendance registers, which had to be marked by a certain time each day, morning and afternoon. Regular inspections were also made, often unannounced, by school inspectors to check on pupil attainment and quality of teaching. Funds granted relied on the results of these inspections. Later entries show that by 1914 there were approximately 50 pupils on the register. Numbers continued to dwindle and Reepham St Mary’s school closed around 1920, amalgamating with Hackford and Whitwell, although the building continued to be used for woodwork and cookery classes by other schools in the area. The log book also records school closures on account of measles, whooping cough, cases of ringworm, non-attendance due to bad weather and bad boots! Reepham St Mary’s log book is available on the UK-based online genealogy service Findmypast and, like the curate’s egg, is good in parts. For a more detailed look at Hackford and Whitwell School in the 1920s and 1930s refer to Wesley Piercy’s booklet My Town: Essays on the History of Reepham. 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 The rise and fall of primary school numbers Description An account of the resource Brief look at primary schools in Reepham in the 1900s; Reepham St. Mary's; Hackford & Whitwell Primary School; closure of St Mary's. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 2018 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131840 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 1900s Cornall Goddard RL Calendar 2018 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/d5ce9f2aebf44ec71a58e30fb31f74da.pdf 96e7225df4f201c99357f55cf7e3e680 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 Changes to Cawston Road/Wood Dalling junction The August picture in the Reepham Life 2018 Calendar shows the Cawston Road/Wood Dalling junction as it was before the new houses were built on Crown Meadow. On the site of the former Reepham Railway Station can be seen the old granary buildings (now Kerri’s Farmhouse Pine), the station building itself and the disused railway line leading down the view, which has become Marriott’s Way. The group of small modern industrial units next to the station, known as Coller’s Way, was named after R. Coller & Son, coal and corn merchants, with the large older building (now Reepham Garage Services) still showing some old signs. Other businesses based at the yard were Stimpson & Hurn and William Freeston. The bridge that took the road over the railway line is now a footpath. One of the highest points in Reepham, it was used as a lookout post by air raid wardens in the Second World War. Part of the original road still exists behind the wooded area as the road bends round towards Cawston. Six roads met at what was once called Station Plain. However, the railway reduced it to five by making the Wood Dalling and Cawston Roads use the one bridge. In the 1901 census this area near Reepham Station was still called Six Crossways. The main buildings here were The Crown Inn with a few surrounding cottages, one of which was a laundry business run by Matilda Timbers. In the 1920s Philip Hunt opened a general supplies store and pork butcher’s, moving from a previous site in Reepham Moor. This later became Station Stores (now The Cutting Station hairdressers). 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. 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Title A name given to the resource Changes to Cawston Road/Wood Dalling junction Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2018 Description An account of the resource Aerial photograph of the junction on the B1145 before modification in the 1990s Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131820 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 B1145 Cawston Road Coller Crown Meadow Marriots Way RL Calendar 2018 Stimpson & Hurn Wood Dalling https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/176093abee048c3ed214c08f57063854.pdf 08dad41a3fa9abd654cca89647053010 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Monday, July 2, 2018 Women’s bowls team success throughout the 1960s Violet Watson, captain of Reepham Women’s Bowls Club, was the wife of Clifford Watson, licensee of the Sun Inn in Reepham’s Market Place, who had taken up the licence in 1922. Previously, his father, Frederick Watson, had been the licensee from 1905. The women’s bowls team had many successes throughout the 1960s. In 1968 Mrs Symonds, Mrs Wyand and Mrs Eglington (also in the July picture in the Reepham Life 2018 Calendar) were runners-up in the Women’s National Triples. Four of its players in the 1960s represented Norfolk at national level. Another successful bowler in the team was Daisy Mole (née Burton), who was born in 1892, grew up in Kerdiston and in November 1913 married Alfred Morris Mole, a Reepham postman for many years. They lived in Whitwell Street and had a smallholding, showing their goats and livestock at local competitions and fairs. Daisy was widowed in 1933 and later moved to Station Road. Daisy’s niece recently donated a number of photographs of Daisy and Alfred Morris Mole to the Reepham Archive. The photographs below are of Daisy with her husband around the time of their marriage, and one from the 1960s with her bowling trophies. The women’s bowls team played on the Sun Inn’s own bowling green, which is still in use by Reepham Town Bowls Club today. (The King’s Arms also had a bowling green on the Dereham Road and Dr Perry may have had a green within the extensive grounds of Eynsford House.) 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 Women’s bowls team success throughout the 1960s Description An account of the resource Reference to Daisy Mole, a successful member of Reepham Ladies Bowls Team. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2018 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131810 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 bowls Mole RL Calendar 2018 Watson https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/6c0574917ec720c91109c3336ddcfb26.pdf 392a5e2fce84b94c4ea5a9d077cf2d60 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Monday, May 21, 2018 When rationing measures were still in place The June picture in the Reepham Life 2018 Calendar shows the grand parade in the Market Place, which was part of Reepham Shopping Week in 1950. In that year the average diet was still influenced by rationing and there was a heavy reliance on bread, milk and vegetables. Fruit, vegetables and fish were not rationed, although, with a shortage of foods being imported, many fruit and vegetables were only available when they were in season. Photo: © IWM (D 7958) Before the war, more than two thirds of British food was imported. But enemy ships targeting merchant vessels prevented fruit, sugar, cereals and meat from reaching the UK. �At the time of the picture, petrol rationing had only just ceased in May 1950, followed by soap in September, but many essential items like tea, sugar, eggs, butter, meat and cheese were still on ration. It took another four years before all rationing ceased. Tea was still rationed until 1952 and then in 1953 sugar and eggs became freely available and, finally, cheese and meat in 1954. The continuance of rationing after the official end of the war encouraged people to carry on growing their own food in back gardens and allotments. Queueing outside shops to buy a family’s rations continued to be a way of life. There were also severe shortages of most consumer products, which prompted the continuance of the wartime “make-do-and-mend” culture. Clothing did not come “off the ration” until 1949, four years after the war had ended. Fourteen years of food rationing in Britain ended at midnight on 4 July 1954, when restrictions on the sale and purchase of meat and bacon were finally lifted. 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 When rationing measures were still in place Description An account of the resource Description of Rationing in Britain in the 1950s Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1950s Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131755 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 1950s rationing RL Calendar 2018 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/d9f9bd833f417c1efe0f647cac49c22c.pdf 4497c2f3a8ff72046761250aeaac97af PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 Cricket club’s perennial search for a suitable ground The May image in the Reepham Life Calendar 2018 shows a photo of the Reepham Cricket Club team in 1921. Early information about a cricket club in Reepham is sparse, but there are occasional newspaper reports of a club based in the town as early as 1805. In the 1850s and 1860s the club appeared to be thriving – in one season even hiring a professional bowler. However, the club must have run into difficulties and efforts were made to re-establish it, notably in 1875 when, in spite of funds being provided by Rev. Sir Edward Repps Jodrell, and a core of enthusiasts, a ground could not be procured. The club was later re-formed in 1881 after a break of 16 years. Finding a suitable match ground seems to have been a perennial problem. In 1884, when the cricket club was again re-formed, the club resumed using a ground at Kerdiston, probably made available by Barnabas Seely. But misfortune lay ahead, hence this extract from the Norwich Mercury in May 1884: In 1889 and 1890 the club was using Mr Brownsell’s Meadow as a practice ground. (Thomas Brownsell was the farmer at Rookery Farm at that time, having previously farmed at Moor Farm.) And in 1891 “Mr B. Stimpson kindly offered a meadow at Sall, gratis, for the use of the club”. The later-1890s seemed more successful as the team took part in the Junior County Cup and Samuel Bircham provided a ground free of rent – this may have been on land in Norwich Road opposite where Reepham Fishery is now. 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. 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Title A name given to the resource Cricket club’s perennial search for a suitable ground Description An account of the resource The ups and downs of Reepham Cricket Club in the late 19th century. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 2018 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131750 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 Brownsell cricket RL Calendar 2018 Stimpson https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/7bb3149c42081c79df12020bcc3a6584.pdf cf9579ce1daa0435d1674512091a746e PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Thursday, March 15, 2018 Historical features of Market Place premises As seen in the April picture of the Reepham Life 2018 Calendar, one of the noticeable features of the Robertson’s butcher’s premises is the stepping on the gable end that faces the Market Place. A murky picture (above) of crowds celebrating Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 reveals a different roof shape with two chimneys, and an architect’s drawing in the Reepham Archive dates the alterations to the early 1900s. John Hall had already been running his harness and saddle-making business there since at least 1890. By the mid-1920s his son Bertie was running the saddlery business and John had retired to live in the building next door that is now Mott’s Pharmacy; he was still living there in 1939. The other photograph (below), possibly from the 1920s, shows the picket fence (or a similar one) that was still there when the building was occupied by L.L. Skipper in the 1980s. �Previously, Robert Barber, a watchmaker and jeweller, had lived in the current pharmacy building for more than 30 years. Barber was born in Salle and had spent some time in the 1st Royal Dragoons, marrying in Dublin while stationed at the Royal Barracks. His two eldest children were christened at the garrison chapel at Arbour Hill, Dublin. His next two daughters were christened in Ashted, Warwickshire, presumably while Robert was posted at Great Brook Street Barracks. By 1871 he was living and working as a watchmaker in Cawston, moving to Reepham Market Place by the time of the 1881 Census. Missing photo album returned Reepham Archive is delighted to report that the missing album of historical photographs has been returned to the Bircham Centre and is now safely back in the library. 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 Historical features of Market Place premises Description An account of the resource Comparison of the roofline of Robertson's shop at the time of Queen Victoria's Jubilee and the stepped pattern visible in a 1920s photograph. Alterations were probably made in the early 1900s. Details of the life of Robert Barber, watchmaker & resident in what is now (2019) Mott's Pharmacy. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 2018 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131740 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Streets & Buildings/Market Place [File 17, Archive Box 117] Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Barber R Motts Pharmacy Queen Victoria's Jubilee RL Calendar 2018 Robertson https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/e7c68058641e9c48915943921e7cb08a.pdf a8e56fdb464e0a5f862ec2482b0d010e PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 A shepherd and his sheep Sheep and their wool were an important economic force from medieval times. By the middle of the 17th century two-thirds of England’s foreign commerce was based on wool, and everyone who had land, from peasants to major landowners, raised sheep. Evidence of the landowners’ prosperity can be seen in the many beautiful churches in Norfolk, such as St Peter and St Paul, Salle. The March picture in the Reepham Life 2018 Calendar of the shepherd and his boy reminds us that by the 19th century things were very different and sheep were traded primarily for their meat. The Reepham Archive believes that this is a photograph of a young Robert Eaglen possibly with his father John. John Eaglen was a shepherd all his life, born in Little Witchingham in 1832. As a boy he lived in Booton, and after marrying we find him living in Low Common Cottages in Whitwell with his wife Emily and a large family. Robert (born 1874) also became a shepherd for a while and two of his brothers are called “Shepherd’s Page” in the occupation column of the 1881 Census. By 1911 Robert was married with two children and had become a gamekeeper, living on Bawdeswell Road. The Norfolk Electoral Rolls for 1919 show him with his wife Laurena working as a gamekeeper on an estate near Swaffham. (Topically, Laurena also had the vote on account of her husband having an occupation and of them not being lodgers – they were renting their house at the time.) Although her parents moved away from Reepham, Robert’s daughter Fernleigh married Arthur Hardiment of Hardiment’s Stores, the grocery shop in Reepham’s Market Place. 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 Shepherd and his Sheep Description An account of the resource Some details of the life of Robert Eaglen, shepherd & gamekeeper, who lived on Bawdeswell Road. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 2018 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131525 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 Eaglen Hardiment RL Calendar 2018 shepherd https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/2d066077e0e466b5e26a83b88c145dfb.pdf 9601a023bea2e2fa23181fd2cc8f3f46 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 Veteran car with local connection still on the road The Reepham Life 2018 Calendar for February shows recovering wounded soldiers from the First World War outside Reepham Town Hall, then known as Hackford Parish Hall. Although we cannot identify any of the soldiers, we have found out some interesting information about the car in the foreground, AH222. Due to the persistence of Reepham Archive volunteer Ann Middlemas we know that this car is still in existence and is well looked after. It has competed in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run on at least 50 occasions since 1936, the most recent run being in 2017. This race was first organised in 1896 to celebrate the Red Flag Repeal. In that year the speed limit was increased from 4 mph on open roads and from 2 mph in towns to 14 mph. �To qualify for entry in the modern run, cars need to be have been built no later than 1905. On the calendar photograph you can see the pannier baskets, still in evidence in the modern picture. AH222 is a Peugeot Type 49 which left the Peugeot works in 1902. The current owner tells us that it still has its original engine, wooden chassis and body – amazing for a car of its age. It was capable of speeds up to 25 mph. There is a tenuous reference to it being registered to a Norwich doctor around 1904 and, although there is no evidence, we would like to think that AH222 belonged to Dr Perry, the local doctor who lived at Eynsford House on Dereham Road and was the leading medical officer for Reepham’s Red Cross Hospital during the First World War. 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 Veteran Car With Local Connection Description An account of the resource Story about AH222, the veteran car pictured outside Reepham Town Hall when it was being used as a Red Cross Hospital during WWI. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 2018 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131515 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 AH 222 RL Calendar 2018 WWI