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Stories about Reepham Home Guard by Alec Rowe, beginning in 1938 when he was a teenager.

Richard Wilkin, born 12 May 1917, was the son of Thomas & Ellen Wilkin. In 1939 the Wilkin family was living at 2 Railway Terrace, New Road in Reepham. Richard served in the Far East with the Royal Norfolk Regiment and was captured in Singapore…

Two personal accounts of Reepham from 1935-1945 including music during the Second World War

One of two pill-boxes erected as part of home defences in WWII. This one is (?) in the field on the way to Booton alongside the Norwich Road. A second one was built near Jordan Green. Listed on Norfolk Heritage ExplorerNHER REF…

These are the men of the Home Guard who covered the Reepham, Alderford, Swannington, Attlebridge, Lenwade and Lyng Area. This photograph was taken outside Bawdeswell Hall.

In the centre of the front row is Major Gurney with Major Winch, Mr Dix,…

Newspaper cutting from The Eastern Daily Press dated 15 August 1979 recording the Thanksgiving service for late Mr. G.H. Anderson held at St. Mary's Reepham. Mr. Anderson lived at Candle Court, Church Street, Reepham.

A poem by G.G.F Published in The Norfolk Chronicle on 17 November 1939 recounting Reepham's response to the threat from Hitler

Standing (l–r): Bob Wasey, Jack Ling, Horace CollisonSeated (l–r): Gordon Frankland, William Burton, Cyril Lowe, Bob Smith, Ernest TuddenhamThe original source did not identify the man standing at the left-hand end. Based on comparison with item…