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Dr Perry with a group of Nurses
Dr. Perry with a group of 10 of the nursing staff at Reepham Red Cross Hospital during WWI.Nurses Gibbs & Dewing are in the back row.
Nurses at Reepham Red Cross Hospital
Two photographs of six nurses based at the Reepham Red Cross Hospital during WWI.
Includes Nurses Gibbs & Dewing.
Includes Nurses Gibbs & Dewing.
Lady Grace Barry
Studio Portrait photograph signed Grace Barry and dated April 5 1919.
Lady Barry was the Commandant of the Reepham Red Cross Hospital. She is wearing the M. B. E. which she was awarded in Feb 1919.
Lady Barry was the Commandant of the Reepham Red Cross Hospital. She is wearing the M. B. E. which she was awarded in Feb 1919.
Embroidered Red Cross Badge
Embroidered Red Cross Badge in a gold frame. The badge was worked and given to Miss Evelyn Gibbs by one of the wounded soldiers during the First World War. Evelyn served as Assistant Commandant in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) in the Hackford…
Reepham Red Cross Hospital
A photograph of the Reepham Red Cross Hospital taken in the Town Hall showing Dr. Perry, nurses and recuperating soldiers sitting by their beds in their hospital ward.
Reepham Red Cross Detachment No 52
Group photograph of Reepham Detachment No 52, British Red Cross Society taken in November 1968.
Reepham Red Cross Annual Inspection
The British Red Cross was based in the Bircham Institute from 1914 up to the late 1970s. Reepham had its own Red Cross ambulance and most of these ladies were on ambulance duty from time to time. This photograph was taken in Reepham Town Hall in…
Reepham and The War - A Poem
A poem by G.G.F Published in The Norfolk Chronicle on 17 November 1939 recounting Reepham's response to the threat from Hitler
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.
Soldiers and vehicles outside Reepham Red Cross Hospital
The current town hall was previously called Hackford Parish Hall, and earlier was the school for Hackford & Whitwell children. It was commandeered as a hospital during WWI.
Postcard sent from Reepham 11 Sept 1916 addressed to Mr. Frank Mole,…
Postcard sent from Reepham 11 Sept 1916 addressed to Mr. Frank Mole,…
Reepham Red Cross Hospital Group
Photograph taken in the churchyard at the side of Reepham Town Hall in 1917 showing officers, staff and patients of the hospital including Sister Stelling, Sister Keeley, Nurse Dewing, Nurse Maddison, Nurse Mortlock and Nurse Langton. Dr. E V Perry…
National Blood Transfusion Service
Regular sessions were held in the Old Brewery House Hotel during the 1960s - 1990s.
Mrs. Lawn in uniform. June Barrett is the donor in the foreground.
Mrs. Lawn in uniform. June Barrett is the donor in the foreground.
Meals on Wheels
Mrs. Ben Stimpson, Mr & Mrs Harold Rump and Mr & Mrs W.J. (Jack) Lawn loading lunches into the delivery car for the Meals on Wheels Service run by Reepham's Red Cross group.