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Copy of a view of Norwich Road, Booton, from the Kings Head looking towards Reepham. The cottages on the roadside are now mostly painted white. Original pc copied & enlarged

Tinted postcard of Norwich Road looking towards the churches. The frontage of G. E. Gray the bootmaker remains the same. Gray is registered in the 1911 census.

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

View along Norwich Road with schoolchildren on left, saddler's shop on right and Gray's bootmaker shop further down the road.

View of Norwich Road looking towards Booton. The white building was the storage for George Storey, painter & decorator. In the right foreground is Jesse Bircham's chemist shop & further along is the sign for George Grey's shop where he made &…

View of Norwich Road showing Virginia's Workbox, currently Rococo Loco. Sandbags are in place to protect from flooding.

Letter from Andrew Hunt recalling childhood memories of the Walking Man statue in Norwich Road.

Background to the statue made by William Lain in the 1970s. The 'Walking Man' stood in the yard on Norwich Road where William Lain had a stonemasonry and sculpting business.

Two articles about The Walking Man statue made by Reepham stonemason William Lain in 1972. This stood outside the Walking Man Antiques shop run by Mr. Lain and his wife Mary at their business in Norwich Road, Reepham.

Further background…

Postcard of Norwich Road, Reepham, showing two ladies outside a shop and nine children playing in the road. The hanging lantern reads: F.B. Taylor. Veterinary Surgeon.Possibly posted 1917.

The Reepham Society Exhibition 2001 notes this as possibly a milkman, another photograph states it is Walter Reeder, baker, delivering milk.
After the exhibition Mr. Richard Hendry, funeral director, said it was his father who was the owner of the…

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

The Bays, on Norwich Road, stretches back into Swiss Cottage. The two houses are now separated but were extended from an earlier half-timbered house, largely hidden from the outside.

A further view of Norwich Road looking away from the town. Beaver House was a grocer & draper, and the Tudor style house belonged to a boot & shoe repairer.

Row of cottages & shops on Norwich Road, looking towards the churches. Many were given new frontages in the nineteenth century. Beaver House is the nearest.

Ladies chatting, pony and trap and two onlookers in Norwich Road, Reepham. This end of Norwich Road is now known as Church Hill Plain. The fine railings on the tomb outside the church are no more. The house on the left is still thatched.

Norwich Road in the early 1900s, with brief details about Beaver House, Jesse Bircham and John Rooke.

Discussion of changes in Reepham, and how the archive is recording those changes.

Beaver House, Norwich Road, 1900s
Lighted sign reads: Vet Surgeon, F B Taylor
Man in doorway probably Arnold Beaver

Arnold G. Beaver, Grocer, Tea Dealer, Draper and House Furnisher, Norwich Road Reepham China, Glass, Earthenware, EtcUsed in History Exhibition Sept. 2003
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