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Market Place towards the Church
View towards St. Michael's tower including Peck's shop. Newsboards report the disappearance of Gustav Hamel in May 1914. Hamel was a famous pioneering aviator and was flying from Paris to Hendon when his plane disappeared over the Channel after…
Market Place South West
View across the Market Place showing Stoner's shop, Austin the butcher and the Sun Inn. Possiblly taken at the end of market day, judging by the number of carts still parked.
Methodist Chapel
View of the Methodist Chapel taken from the cottages opposite the car park on Station Road.
Norwich Road towards the churches
View of Norwich Road towards the churches, taken from the junction with Bircham Road.
Norwich Road to the East
View along Norwich Road with schoolchildren on left, saddler's shop on right and Gray's bootmaker shop further down the road.
Eglington & Gooch Machine Works
Eglington & Gooch's works existed on the site of the current Spar shop in Ollands Road employing a variety of skilled workmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, wheelwrights and farriers.
Sidney Eglington outside Gibbs
Sidney Eglington having a rest outside Gibbs shop. There appears to be some kind of shelter in front of Hackford House.
Hospital Blues
Group of soldiers in their 'Hospital Blues' outside the back of Hackford House, later to become the Bircham Centre. The house included a room or rooms for recreation and for extra beds.
Nurses Dewing & Gibbs
Nurses Mabel Dewing & Evelyn Gibbs with unknown soldiers.
Towns End Corner
View from Towns End towards the Market Place. Gibbs has water tanks on sale, Frost's garage is selling BP & Shell petrol, & Mrs. Fred Gibbs' new shop can just be seen on the RH edge.
Market Place South
South side of the Market Place looking towards the KIngs Arms. D. & H. Kendall Chapman's premises show that the post office has removed & now sells cards, stationery, sweets, Walls Ice Cream etc.Note the white telephone box.
Back Street
View along Back Street from beside The Oaks looking west towards School Road. Back wall of Kings Arms on right, part of Nelson Cottage visible on left.
Market Place South West
View from the Market Place towards Dereham Road. Utting the butcher and Jewell the drug & photographic shops in view.
Silver Jubilee Train
Silver Jubilee Train to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of passenger services on the Wroxham to County School branch line.
Armistice Day Parade
Parade assembled in Market Place, date unknown.
Market Place West
View from the Market Place towards Dereham Road. Barclays Bank on the right and Utting the butcher has been replaced with Wright, a fishmonger.
Kendall Chapman postcard.
Kendall Chapman postcard.
School Road
View looking down School Road from the school gates with Massey & Bridges garage in the distance.
Daisy Burton's Marriage
Extract from Sparham Deanery Magazine giving details of Daisy Burton's marriage to Alfred Morris Mole in 1913,
Red Cross Hospital
Extract from a booklet issued to publicise the efforts made to the convalescence of wounded soldiers. Photograph taken at the back of the Bircham Centre
View from St. Michael's Tower
Bird's eye view of the Market Place showing Woods' shop and Peck's stores. The rear of the Bircham Centre is shown clearly on the left.