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Caring for the Wounded in WWI
Talk given by Brenda Gostling & presentation by Janet Archer using materials & resources from Reepham Archive as well as online information from the British Red Cross website. The presentation slides are shown here as the second item. The first slide…
Stereograph Images
Seven undated stereograph images of Reepham.Six of the group are a set, the seventh pair of images are mounted on a different size & kind of card.One image from each pair is shown and include :-
Two views of Church Plain
Two views towards…
The Bircham Centre
Short history of the Bircham Centre
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.
The Stately Homes of Reepham
A brief outline of five "stately homes" in the Reepham district: Bircham Centre, Hackford Hall, Whitwell Hall, The Ollands, The Moor House
Frank and Ethel Leiper
Photograph of Frank Leiper and Ethel Keeley, their marriage certificate (1918) and her VAD card. Ethel Keeley was the VAD night nurse at Reepham Hospital during WWI. She gives this as her address on their marriage certificate. Frank was wounded and…
Evelyn Gibbs
Portrait photograph of Miss Evelyn Gibbs inscribed 'daughter of Mr. Edward Gibbs, Market Place, Reepham'.
During World War I Miss Gibbs served as the Assistant Commandant in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) of Hackford Military Hospital ,…
During World War I Miss Gibbs served as the Assistant Commandant in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) of Hackford Military Hospital ,…
Three Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurses
On the reverse is written "Nurses at Bircham Centre, then known as Hackford House, 1914-1918 War". Mabel Dewing is the nurse on the left.
Bircham Centre
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…
Hackford House in the 1900s
Written to promote interest in the Bircham Centre centenary celebrations in summer 2019.
Hackford House Troops Hospital
Original postcard of large group of soldiers and nurses in the grounds of Hackford House during WWI with the tower of St. Michael's Church in the background. Many men are wearing the blue uniform of wounded soldiers.
Hackford House as a First World War hospital
Details of the officials, Dr Perry (Medical Officer in charge), Lady Grace Barry (Commandant) ; record cards for Nan Bircham and her sister Dorothy Bruce.
But what do we use our staves for, sir?
Description of the uses of staves in the boy scouts, with photograph of the Hackford House Troop in 1911.
Blanche Dewing
Blanche Dewing served as a VAD Nurse in Reepham during the First World War. She was the daughter of Martin Dewing and the family lived in Reepham Moor. The photograph on display in Reepham Archive is annotated “Blanche Dewing” & has always been…
Hackford House as a WWI Hospital
Patients & nurses in the grounds of Hackford House (now the Bircham Centre). The men are wearing the blue uniforms with white lapels of wounded soldiers. VAD Nurses can be identified with their head veils bunched back.