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View of Gibbs' terrace. The two-storey extension on the left-hand side was added in about 1907. This photograph dates before 1914. By WWI Edward Gibbs had a new sign which projected out from the building.
The name F. Gibbs refers to Fred Gibbs,…

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.

Two views, taken at different times, of the row of cottages on the left of the road that leads up towards Orchard Lane. The shop was a grocer's business run by Martin Luther Dewing. The barn-type building in the second picture still looks the same.

Two front views of the Ollands Cottages that faced onto Norwich Road. One taken from up a tree in the yard of St.Mary's School.

Further photograph of the cottages from the rear.

Photograph & cutting from The Journal, Friday, May 9, 1958 :
Reepham Town Football Team hoist their captain shoulder-high after they had been presented with the Aylsham Charity Cup after beating Aylsham Wanderers on Monday.

Second photograph…

The new Reepham High School opened in 1961 with 200 pupils.

M&GN Goods train collision at Guestwick, 31 October 1908 & report from the Diss Express.Believed to be from an original postcard.

Mary Lovick was summoned on the information of Arthur Charles Spinks of Scarning (an egg collector for Messrs Sainsbury), for selling eggs not of the quality demanded by the purchaser.

Photograph of an early motorbike with a wicker sidecar being ridden by Fred Gibbs with his cousin Edward Gibbs jnr as the passenger. Article includes details of Frederick Gibbs early life before he came to Reepham.

Information and speculation about the box outside Very Nice Things, sometimes known as the 'Blanket Box'.

North and west sides of store including lettering painted on north wall. Percy Hilton standing outside.