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Postcard showing the entrance to the Moor House on the left with gardener's house visible behind the fence. The Black Lion public house can just be seen through the trees.

View towards Church Hill Cottages. This area is now called Church Hill rather than Norwich Road.

Mr. Pask outside his shop with two ladies, probably his two youngest daughters Hilda and Rosie who continued to run the business after he died in 1943 aged 91.
The windows advertise the range of clothes offered; liveries, breeches, hunting uniforms…

Notes from George Kett about the writer who lived in Reepham in the 1920s. Portrait & title page from Robert Standish's biography shown here. More information in RS Magazine 1993.

Group of 8 smartly dressed men and 1 child in front of a wall on Reepham Moor

Documents connected with grazing rights on Whitwell Common including a list of commoners from 1924 & a letter from 1928 informing them about changes in the rules.
The commoners were entitled, for 5 shillings a year, to graze up to two split-hoof…

A personal account of Reepham in the 1920s by Wesley Piercy published in Reepham Society Newsletter June 1984

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Reepham Market Place showing R. W. Austin, butchers, the Post Office, Corner Shop and Gurney's Bank. A tricycle with wicker side car is in the bottom right.

Postcard showing Newland Villas in the 1920s when all the houses stood behind trimmed hedges and before the road was widened. Note reads: Postcard from which picture is scanned has early 1920s stamp on it. Joyce.

Letter from Mrs. Sheila M. Frackiewicz (nee Cane). dated 3 March 2010. Sheila was born in the 1920s and was the daughter of Dr. Maurice Cane and and his wife. The family lived in the house now known as Eynsford House.

B&W unused postcard with a view of Bawdeswell Street looking east towards the church wall and showing village shop, advertisement signs and a parked car.

Sign reads: A.E.BUSH, Grocer and Draper Alfred Bush and his wife Sybil ran the post office in Bawdeswell from 1920 to 1937 when the post office was taken over by the Whybrows.Notes on the post office included in File 12.

View of Chaucer House, The Street, Bawdeswell taken before 1928.
Unused Tuck postcard
BWDL 4

Bawdeswell's church was the only Norfolk village parish church to be destroyed in World War II. In 1944 an RAF Mosquito returning from a raid over Germany crashed into the church causing extensive damage to the church and nearby buildings.

Original postcard marked Hall Road, Reepham. On the reverse:-Ollands Road, Reepham, NorfolkMiss Anne Bircham (in pram)Nursemaid Dorothy Basham?Mr Symonds in cart, (Evan Symonds Father)Mrs. Dick Hatley. (Dates : Anne Bircham was born in 1913)Two…

From a group of photographs concerning Massey and Bridges, Motor Engineers.

Group of 13 men, outside an open pavilion, 11 in cricket whites, umpire wearing a hat, man on left possibly a scorer.

Written on reverse : Reepham 1921.

Grocery and general store on site of recent Police Station. Double display window curved wooden rail visible. Aproned proprietor standing in doorway under Bovril sign.
Young proprietor is probably Arthur Hardiment. In 1921 he was an assistant for…

Bye-Laws for regulating the use of the Market Place of Hackford-next-Reepham, and for preventing nuisances or obstructions therein, with table of tolls and list of rents and stallages.
2 Copies held.

A4 format calendar with historical photographs and smaller modern colour photographs of the same view with notes and page per month layout.
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