1 20 48 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/c2f4ffa428bfee006ba8c13f0bbe5004.pdf b432b8ec6a4646d7de65223325f11b42 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Thursday, August 17, 2017 Puzzle of the mystery box Outside Very Nice Things in Market Place, Reepham, stands a mystery box. It is more than six feet tall but quite narrow, and is fixed to the wall in the corner where the shop meets St Michael’s House, the last property before the entrance to the churchyard. We know it was there in the early 1900s as we have evidence from dated photographs. One suggestion made in a “Memories of Reepham” item was that it was known as the “Blanket Box” and contained blankets to be used for people injured in accidents in the Market Place. However, the height of the box would indicate there is room for something larger than a few blankets. It is actually tall enough to contain a canvas stretcher, plus blankets and other items useful in an emergency. St John Ambulance has a history of providing emergency equipment in boxes where climbers and ramblers could make use of the contents in adverse weather conditions, but we have not found any reference to similar boxes being placed in busy public places. A second suggestion is that it was a shutter box. Many of the shops in the Market Place would have had wooden shutters to be put up at closing time to protect the window glass and shop window contents from damage overnight. There is a photograph showing a shutter box outside the Bircham Centre, looking like a small sentry box. If you have any ideas or memories about our mystery box we would love to hear from you. � 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 Puzzle of the Mystery Box Description An account of the resource Information and speculation about the box outside Very Nice Things, sometimes known as the 'Blanket Box'. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 2017 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131520 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Riches RL Calendar 2017 Very Nice Things https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/8258e36a2133feb2e730fb26cf869020.pdf 63a7d3109778b6e567ffdb45e4202b11 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Monday, September 18, 2017 Building a digital timeline of past businesses The Reepham Archive is beginning to build a digital timeline that will show how the Market Place and adjoining streets have changed over the past 150 years. The Archive has a large collection of photographs that need to be categorised and catalogued to be able to provide details of all the businesses and shops, their owners, staff and customers during that time. For instance, if we know when what is now Diane’s Pantry changed from Austins to Uttings it helps us date other events recorded in other photographs. If you have any old photos or stories the Archive would love to see them. We can scan these and return the originals to you. With your permission we can add them to our website for others to see and enjoy. This view taken in the early 20th century is marked Norwich Road, now known as Church Hill. The fine tomb has railings, when did they disappear? Who are the people in the photograph, when was it taken, what business has the awning? A butcher’s shop according to another photo, possibly taken a little later, also shows a sign for Eglinton’s Ironmongers on the end wall, now number 21. When was the sign added? If you would like to help us answer these questions come and see us. � 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 Building a Timeline Description An account of the resource Discussion of changes in Reepham, and how the archive is recording those changes. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 2017 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131530 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource AM Church Hill Norwich Road https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/a5ef85ea799b1a87b23b19c5bf1f100e.pdf ce121e27bf05fa6bcab99d1bdebca2c7 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Friday, June 16, 2017 A riddle from the grocery store Can a man’s pocket be empty when he’s got something in it? Yes, when he’s got a hole in it! This is one of the riddles printed underneath a series of cartoons on a large sheet of paper with “Richard Amiss Grocer, Draper & General Dealer” and “Reepham” beneath each one. The paper is broadsheet size and looks like an early form of advertising. One side contains 12 cartoons with an extra riddle underneath. The other side has snippets of songs that come from familiar folk songs, such as The Keel Row, sentimental ditties and humorous music hall songs popular in the mid-19th century, such I won’t be a nun. Maybe the whole sheet was used for wrapping large items bought in Richard Amiss’s shop? It would not have been cheap to have sheets like this printed so we assume that Amiss was a fairly prosperous merchant; he is mentioned in various early directories as a Grocer, Draper & Tailor. In 1841 he was working as a tailor in Norwich Road with two young apprentices. Ten years later he is named as a Master Tailor, Grocer & Draper employing a Journeyman Tailor with two apprentices and by 1861 his shop was in the Market Place. Richard Amiss had at least four children: two boys, Alfred and Elijah, who died in their youth, and two daughters, Louise and Pamela. Louise married Samuel Sewell Eglington. Pamela, the youngest daughter, married Edward Page, a carpenter and coal merchant. By 1871 the Pages were running the Crown Inn and Pamela continued to run the Crown after Edward’s death in 1911. 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 A Riddle from the Grocery Store Description An account of the resource Information about Richard Amiss, a grocer, draper and tailor of Reepham in the mid-1800s. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 2017 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131545 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 Amiss Page https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/82cece55a184cd16dcf24e60dd8b8320.pdf 8278f468ff37341f0a726b8437192722 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 Travelling in style This photograph shows a wonderful example of an early motorbike with a basket-chair sidecar being driven by Frederic Gibbs with his younger cousin Edward Gibbs. It was probably taken in 1912 or 1913. The first wicker sidecars were patented in 1903 and could be attached to any motorcycle in less than two minutes. The total cost for a Trafalgar motor cycle plus “side carriage” was about £50. Ann Dickinson (nee Gibbs), who grew up in Reepham, sent the photograph to the Eastern Daily Press in 1993 and it was published as part of the Down Memory Lane series. Ann was the daughter of Frederic J. Gibbs, who was living with his uncle Edward Gibbs, the ironmonger, in 1911. The following note written by Ann for the newspaper gives some colourful details of her father’s life. “Fred had been invalided out of the East India Extension Telegraph Company, for which he had been cable-laying, and came to Reepham in 1904. The Reepham Gibbs were his only relatives, his father having been murdered at sea by Chinese pirates and his mother having died. After recovering from TB he took up photography, taught himself clock-making, made a car from bits and pieces and made wirelesses.” Note : Frederic gave his birthplace as “The Straits Settlement, Singapore” in the 1911 census, and in 1898 there is a record of an F J Gibbs, Joiner, age 16, as part of the crew of the cable ship Sherard Osborn, arriving in Sydney from Singapore. 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 Travelling in Style Description An account of the resource Photograph of an early motorbike with a wicker sidecar being ridden by Fred Gibbs with his cousin Edward Gibbs jnr as the passenger. Article includes details of Frederick Gibbs early life before he came to Reepham. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 2017 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131600 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Relation A related resource GB/REE/1801221159 Dickinson Gibbs RL Calendar 2017 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/aec5f8a78b54c833a6f3b9c70db6ef57.pdf baf443d44000cb8c3315a1a9123a1b3f PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Monday, May 22, 2017 Fined for selling ‘water glass eggs’ Before the days of refrigeration all kinds of foods were preserved by many different methods. For example, hard-boiled eggs could be pickled in vinegar and fresh eggs could last for up to six months if immersed in a “water-glass” solution (sometimes confused with isinglass, which is made from fish swim bladders). The water glass (sodium silicate in solution) blocks and seals the pores of the egg, which prevents bacteria from entering and moisture from leaving, so the eggs would last through the winter when the hens were not laying so many. The following is an edited extract from Reepham Petty Sessions, January 1926 (usually held at the King’s Arms). Mary Lovick was summoned on the information of Arthur Charles Spinks of Scarning (an egg collector for Messrs Sainsbury), for selling eggs not of the quality demanded by the purchaser. Spinks had bought some hen and duck eggs from Mrs Moy, remarking that some looked like water glass eggs. Mrs Moy replied that they came from Mrs Lovick and should be all right. Spinks had been an egg collector, mainly for Sainsbury, for three years, sometimes taking as many as 5,000 from Reepham Market. If any were not new-laid he would have to bear the loss. Percival John Hilton, grocer of Reepham, said Spinks brought a box of eggs to his shop on November 25. On December 9 an inspector to Messrs Sainsbury applied the candle test to 22 duck eggs and 18 hen eggs and found that 13 of the hen eggs were preserved. The box was sealed and the eggs taken away to the County Analyst. When informed of Spinks’ complaint Mrs Lovick said: “I know I sent about nine preserved eggs to make up two score. I didn’t think there was anything wrong in that.” Mary Lovick was fined £5 and £3 18s costs. Hiltons’ Stores in Reepham Market Place (now the police station, in 2017) 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 Fined for Selling Water-Glass Eggs Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 2017 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131410 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 Mary Lovick was summoned on the information of Arthur Charles Spinks of Scarning (an egg collector for Messrs Sainsbury), for selling eggs not of the quality demanded by the purchaser. Hilton Moy RL Calendar 2017 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/06de3a86d54d84ba7e4ec34eb885cb8a.pdf 01e7b0c3b8141b8daf73eb41a6584f3d PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Thursday, October 19, 2017 Opening of Stimpson’s Piece Pavilion This photograph shows the celebration in 1976 of the formal opening of the pavilion at Stimpson’s Piece, Reepham’s large recreation ground, off Bartle Court. The original six acres of land was donated to the people of Reepham by Ben Stimpson. His father Edward Stimpson had a coal, corn, coke and manure dealing business based at Reepham Station, and was also a local landowner and farmer living at Salle Moor Hall. Comedian and entertainer Dickie Henderson is pictured with the microphone, with Ken Ewing, a town councillor for many years and chairman of the tennis club, seated in the cordoned-off area. It is thought Ben Stimpson is seated in the middle right of the picture. Dickie Henderson began as a variety and revue performer, reaching the height of his popularity in the late 1950s and 60s. He made several appearances at the Royal Variety Performance and hosted Sunday Night at the London Palladium. He also had his own television show in the 1960s and early 1970s. This is such a good publicity shot that we think some of you may recognise members of the audience in this photograph. If you do, please get in touch with the Reepham Archive. We are always happy to receive more information about the items we publish. � 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 Opening of Stimpson's Piece Pavilion Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 2017 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131415 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 Opening of the pavilion in 1976 with Dickie Henderson. 1976 Dickie Henderson Ewing Stimpson https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/42afdb73ab2b82297da8f9fd23293513.pdf ce478436061da9268d3170c19cb00f9b PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 ‘But what do we use our staves for, sir?’ In Scouting for Boys published in 1908, Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scout Association, recommended that scouts should carry “a strong stick, about as high as your nose, marked in feet and inches for measuring”. Official scouting rules stipulated that the staff must be “marked in feet and inches, five feet six inches”. The markings can be seen on the cover photograph of the Reepham Life 2018 Calendar. Some recommended uses of the scout staff: making an improvised stretcher • holding back a crowd • jumping over a ditch • testing the depth of a river • helping another scout over a high wall • construction of a light bridge • stopping a car by jamming a staff through the spokes of the wheel • self-defence • a tent pole for a small tent • feeling your way over rough or marshy ground • measuring distances • estimating the height of trees or tall buildings • linking scouts together on a night hike • making a splint for an injured leg • stopping an aggressive dog • beating out bush fires. �Although they have not been a standard part of the scout uniform for many years, modern, commercially produced scout staves are still available and generally made from coppice-grown ash. Closer inspection of the second photograph reveals that the scout on the pony on the far left is actually a young girl with long plaits. This is Amy Rump, youngest daughter of John Abel Rump, a butcher in Reepham, whose shop was possibly in Magpie House, Church Hill, Reepham. Janet Archer, Reepham Archive Volunteer � 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 But what do we use our staves for, sir? Description An account of the resource Description of the uses of staves in the boy scouts, with photograph of the Hackford House Troop in 1911. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2017 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131430 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 1911 Hackford House RL Calendar 2018 scouts https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/4b72e51c85ecb46d5e3ade4b40bf6ca6.pdf f45ad835dc679cbb1e97246325d6c440 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Thursday, November 30, 2017 More about Riches grocery store In the Reepham Life 2018 Calendar, the January picture of Riches grocery store shows the interior of the shop in the early 1960s. By that time small, self-service, supermarket-type stores were becoming a feature of high street shopping. Although there was counter service for goods such as cheese and bacon, the interior shows a variety of goods on display, available for customers to pick up themselves: the beginnings of self-service. Some once-familiar brands can be spotted: Izal and Harpic shiny toilet paper, jars of Brylcreem, Eno Liver Salts and oval tins of Fynnon Salt. In the 1970s, Riches shop, under new owners, became the first self-service grocer in Reepham. Before Leonard Riches took over the shop in 1906 it was run by Mary Woods. Born and baptised in Hackford in the 1830s, Mary had married a farrier and had several children, but by 1871 she was a widow and living in Staples Yard (now Birchams Yard) with her mother Charlotte Loads and three children. Later she had a grocery shop in Back Street, near or next to The Greyhound; by 1891 she was running the store that became Riches. In 1911 she was described as a retired grocer living at Church Gate, the house next to Riches store. This misty photograph below (taken around 1906 when Riches took over the store) shows Mary’s name above the main door and it is likely that the woman in the doorway is Mary Woods herself. �Just discernible on the left side of the picture is the “blanket box”. It becomes easier to believe that this was a shutter box considering the amount of glass bottles on display in the shop window. Janet Archer, Reepham Archive Volunteer � 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 More about Riches' Grocery Store Description An account of the resource A few details about the products on sale in Riches' shop and some information about Mary Woods, the shop's previous owner. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2017 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131440 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Families & Businesses/R [File 6, Archive Box 106] Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA 1900s Riches RL Calendar 2018 Woods 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 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. 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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/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. 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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/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/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/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/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. 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 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/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/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/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. 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 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/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. 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 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/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