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  • Collection: Norfolk Heritage Explorations

Presented to the town by Samuel Bircham in 1919 as a reading room and social centre, it continues to be a valuable meeting centre under the control of a board of trustees. It also houses the Reepham branch of Norfolk Public Libraries. Originally…

View of the buildings that once housed the granary stores at Reepham Station. Now a saleroom and workshop for pine furniture.

Rookery Farm looks out over a pasture that has been the site of brass band festivals, marquees for celebratory meals, sports events, a cricket practice ground and more recently the Reepham Festival. In reports it has been called Steward's Meadow,…

The gable end and stables of Kerdiston Old Hall, probably built on the site of an older manor house.

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The sign stands in front of Salle Church and shows references to St. Peter and St. Paul to whom the church is dedicated.

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The school is close to the village hall and both buildings are opposite Salle Church.

Mains water came to Reepham in the 1950s. There are still many wells in existence and some of the pumps remain. This one is in Bircham's Yard. The yard was named after Jesse Bircham who ran a pharmacy in Victoria House.

The former site of Allen's coach and bus company on Norwich Road.

This building has had a variety of uses including a bakery and a Spar mini-market. In the background is the Old Rectory, built in the 1860s and home to the Rev. Wilkinson and his daughters for many years.

This thatched house on Church Hill is one of the oldest houses in Reepham.

The remains of the church of All Saints which served the parish of Hackford.

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The school was built in the 1890s to replace the building in Back Street/Church Street which is now the Town Hall.


The Foldgate, a thatched public house on Whitwell Common, operated from the 1830s through to 1969. The name can also appear as Falgate, Faldgate, Fallgate, Folgate.

Refer to Fifteen Locals by Joyce Cox for more information.

The school, on Norwich Road, opened in 1847 for the children from Reepham with Kerdiston parishes.

View of Booton Church (St. Michael the Archangel) showing the north porch.

The school was built in 1896/7 to accommodate about 80 pupils. Before it was built Booton children had to get to St. Mary's School on Norwich Road in Reepham. It closed in the late 1940s.

Remains of the brick base of a post mill in Booton said to have been removed from its site in Reepham.

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Echo Lodge, on Ollands Road, is the last remnant of the Ollands estate. Built as housing for the coachman.

This building was used as the Tulliver house in a TV production of The Mill on the Floss.

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Two views of Manor Farm on the Salle estate. The small central wing houses the Jacobean staircase.

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