Title
A True Story by Henry Edward Hawes
Date
1953
Description
Harry Hawes died in 1957 age 94. His widow allowed the Rev. Paul Kelly to transcribe Harry's handwritten notes and they were published in the parish magazine in instalments between Sept 1978 & Jan 1980. This document is a fresh copy made in 2021 of those instalments.
Harry probably wrote it in 1953 and for each building he first gives the name of the current tenant, i.e. in the 1950s, before going on to his own recollection of previous residents in the 1870s and sometimes later.
Additions and possible corrections are displayed in brackets in a different font. It is the closest we can get to Harry's original handwritten notes.
Short extracts from Harry's writings were used as the basis for the Reepham Society publication Harry Hawes' Walk and the subsequent exhibition, Historic Buildings of Reepham, in 2003.
An earlier version transcribed by Tony Ivins was entitled Past News 1949 and includes Reepham Moor.
Harry probably wrote it in 1953 and for each building he first gives the name of the current tenant, i.e. in the 1950s, before going on to his own recollection of previous residents in the 1870s and sometimes later.
Additions and possible corrections are displayed in brackets in a different font. It is the closest we can get to Harry's original handwritten notes.
Short extracts from Harry's writings were used as the basis for the Reepham Society publication Harry Hawes' Walk and the subsequent exhibition, Historic Buildings of Reepham, in 2003.
An earlier version transcribed by Tony Ivins was entitled Past News 1949 and includes Reepham Moor.