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Reepham & District Players
Collection of programmes, reviews and a few images from the Reepham & District Players in the 1930s. The reviews identify some familiar names e.g. Evelyn Gibbs & her siblings Edward & Marjorie, & Sidney Eglington as Stage Manager. Printing for…
Market Place & Church Plain
View towards the church showing Hilton's Stores, possibly late 1930s. Church clock in situ & light strung across. Hilton's ran the shop from around 1923 until 1948.
Methodist Church
Postcard of the Methodist Church on Station Road. Left top corner torn off (by a stamp collector?). Probably taken after 1935, the date of Methodist Union. Note the street lamp.
Postcard No. 2 Bushell Series
Postcard No. 2 Bushell Series
Supply of Electricity to Reepham
Map printed on linen showing plans for the supply of electricity to properties in Reepham. Shops and houses are marked in colour. Reepham was one of the first rural towns in the country to get electricity.
Gibbs Cartridges
Two images of Edward Gibbs and Son's cartridges.
In the 1993 Reepham Society Magazine (page 4) it is recorded "in the yard was a gunpowder magazine for cartridges were made here. A hundred cases were set up in a frame, filled with powder, shot and…
Salle Set 4
Raising a flagpole on the tower of Salle church.
Salle Set 1
Salle Park 1930s, threshing, Orangery, repairs to cottage at Whitwell.
S. Jewell, photographic store
A postcard image of Miss Jewell entering the family photographic store.On the front : West End of Market Place, Reepham.J 7632 (Jewell's Series)On the reverse : "I am sending you a photo of our shop, & I was so angry I got snapped just as I was…
Two Reepham Farriers
The two farriers are believed to be Walter Rudd and A. Lock. The blacksmith's was at the corner of Ollands Road and Malthouse Yard, part of Eglington's yard.
Oddfellows Presentation
Cup presentation at an Oddfellows dinner probably in the 1950s
On the reverse:
Back: Donald Chapman, George Faircloth, Bob Smith, unknown,
Centre: Jack Woods, Alfred Steward,
Front: Mr and Mrs Ken Ward
On the reverse:
Back: Donald Chapman, George Faircloth, Bob Smith, unknown,
Centre: Jack Woods, Alfred Steward,
Front: Mr and Mrs Ken Ward
Reepham Volunteer Fire Brigade
Group of Reepham Firemen in front of their Steam Fire Engine.
Wesley Piercy records in 'My Town' page 38 that the brigade acquired uniforms with a cap similar to that worn by sailors in the early 1930s.
Wesley Piercy records in 'My Town' page 38 that the brigade acquired uniforms with a cap similar to that worn by sailors in the early 1930s.
Reepham Fire Station 1930s
Reepham Fire Station in the Old Primitive Methodist Chapel on Dereham Road in the 1930s
Recalling the thrilling days of the old manual fire engine
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.
Hackford School 1930s
Group of children taken outside the school gates in School Road, Reepham.
Town Farm House, Booton
Details taken from Fragments of a Village Life: Kay Baillie is one of the girls in the doorway at Town Farm House. Her grandfather, Horace Howard, owned it and passed it to her father, Dennis Howard, in 1918. When he retired in 1945 due to ill-health…
Tollgate House, Bawdeswell
Tinted postcard of Tollgate House on Reepham Road, Bawdeswell.
Vulcan Series Postcard
Vulcan Series Postcard
Salle Street
Two postcards of Salle Street showing Eight Row with the church in the background.
One addressed to Mr. G. Childs of Cambridge
Postmarked 1933.
One addressed to Mr. G. Childs of Cambridge
Postmarked 1933.
Reepham Fire Brigade 1930s
Taken outside the Fire Station, now Thurloe House and originally the Primitive Methodist Chapel on Dereham Road.Top L to R:Laddie Neale, George Wilkerson, Herbert VardigansGeorge Goodbury, Bob Fuller, Lenny WardBottom L to R:Herbert Fuller, Dick…
George Self Plumber & Decorator
Dwelling house with sign board proclaiming G. Self Plumber & Decorator
Paperhanger Glazier
Pumps fixed & repaired
Paperhanger Glazier
Pumps fixed & repaired
E. T. Ruffles with Aylsham Fellowship Band
E. T. Ruffles with Aylsham Fellowship Band, prize-winners at a Cambridge festival.