3 20 1026 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/44559f4ac1200ab89824f0235cdc3588.pdf a4c5662cb8752eac706dfd75924029b7 PDF Text Text �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reepham Band Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/Groups/Reepham Band Text - printed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1957 19th Annual Festival Programme (EABBA) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1607301614 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 22 April 1957 (Easter Monday) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1957 St Andrews Hall, Norwich Description An account of the resource Full programme of the East Anglian Brass Band Association's festival. Includes details of the competing bands with their conductors, test pieces, previous successes dating back to 1932, trophies to be awarded & relevant advertising. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 8page booklet, pink paper 130mm x 200mm Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society RS Database 161 1957 East Anglian Brass Band Association St Andrews Hall https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/38ff5b30e6b7d6a531c971af93a75926.pdf aa417888f729e2f376532d4bc0e52d74 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reepham Band Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/Groups/Reepham Band Text - printed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1607301515 Title A name given to the resource 1957 Festival Concert : St Andrews Hall, Norwich Description An account of the resource Festival Concert given by Black Dyke Mills Band, conducted by Jack Emmott. The concert included the presentation of awards & trophies to successful bands who had competed in the 19th Annual EABBA Spring Festival. Autographed by G H Willcocks, a well-known conductor of brass bands. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 22 April 1957 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1957 St Andrews Hall, Norwich Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Paper leaflet 130mm x 210mm Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society RS Database 160 1957 band St Andrews Hall https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/f7efbb8f03054646a3ba948f9a22b7fb.pdf f1488a647c07bccb1a22c886e25954b9 PDF Text Text GB/REE/1607301648 �GB/REE/1607301648 �GB/REE/1607301648 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reepham Band Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/Groups/Reepham Band Text - printed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1958 20th Annual Festival Programme (EABBA) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1607301648 Description An account of the resource Full programme of the East Anglian Brass Band Association's festival. Includes details of the competing bands with their conductors, test pieces, previous successes dating back to 1932, trophies to be awarded & relevant advertising. Robert Austin had become the president, E. T. Ruffles having died the previous year. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 7 April 1958 (Easter Monday) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1958 St Andrews Hall, Norwich Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 12page booklet, blue paper 130mm x 200mm Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society RS Database 162 1958 East Anglian Brass Band Association Ruffles St Andrews Hall https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/b834fa924c7050f3a40e8eb1597a6065.jpg f9ed15658ded89f3caa58d2a7b8fd413 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/5870884042c10cb70f5635453ed4f5ca.jpg 2a29a0f2d2c61c3fffb30835282a72d6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1977 Silver Jubilee Parties Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2209101120 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 4 B&W 115 X 80 mm photographs 6 Coloured negatives Events/1977 Silver Jubilee [File 5, Archive Box 105] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1977 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1977 Description An account of the resource Ten images. 4 black and white photographs of the children's tea party inside the Town Hall. 6 colour negatives showing preparation for the Street Parties in the Market Place and in Back Street. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Betts 2022 1977 Market Place Silver Jubilee https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/115ca1e8df48f942220b3faaf4752c32.pdf 201f6a0d2155d1728de87ae94eabfe7a PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reepham Band Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/Groups/Reepham Band Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1984 : Reepham Band Description An account of the resource Newspaper cutting from the EDP-Arts Focus series with comments on regional brass band history, standards of playing, costs of running a brass band, fund-raising & the then current status of Reepham Band. Two photographs reproduced in column : 1940 & 1984. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 16 August 1984 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1984 Reepham Band Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1608201936 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newspaper cutting 190mm x 300mm Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Eastern Daily Press https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/cf6b09cdc96589ebb3d2099c2d82faa0.pdf 2948e1c97534d7bcc2eb710d2eaca176 PDF Text Text 30 Years Ago – Reepham in 1954  Traders’ duty “to help bring Reepham back to life”  At a meeting of the Management Committee of Reepham Chamber of Trade and  Commerce last night, Mr. Ben Stimpson reported on the reaction of three students at  Liverpool University who made a survey of Reepham in the summer. He said they  were “appalled” at the lack of sewerage and piped water, and they considered the  town “half dead”.  Mr. Stimpson considered it was the duty of the Chamber to help to bring Reepham  back to life, and without water and sewerage no industry or private housing was  likely. Reepham had plenty of space and suitable sites without taking up agricultural  land. There were a number of empty houses that could not be hired and a number of  condemned houses all over the town.  ‘Parlous state’  Their main industry was agriculture, and he observed, “What a good thing it would  be if we could attract to Reepham, say, a quick‐freeze plant or canning factory, which  would benefit the whole community. This vision was impossible of fulfilment without  water or sewerage.  “Here we have empty houses, an empty garage and vacant building plots, and unless  something is not done soon the tradespeople will have empty pockets.”  As it seemed Reepham would never have sewerage and water without “creating a  hell of a fuss about it”, he moved that letters be sent to their MP, their county  councillor, their four representatives to the RDC, and the parish council, drawing  attention to the parlous state in which Reepham found itself through lack of those  essential modern amenities.  Could take light industry  The letters will point out that Reepham had electricity, roads and sites that could  accommodate light industry and houses at considerably less expense and without  defacing a Norfolk beauty spot, as was proposed in the Stratton Strawless scheme.  The motion was carried unanimously.  From the Eastern Daily Press, Saturday November 20, 1954, published in the  Reepham Society Newsletter, May 1985  � Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. 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Title A name given to the resource 30 Years Ago – Reepham in 1954 Description An account of the resource A newspaper report of traders' proposals to reinvigorate Reepham Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/21081750 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource A4 PDF Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society Newsletter May 1985 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Eastern Daily Press Reepham Chamber of Trade and Commerce https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/0b62558e4a577bb8ab51898d0ba07c91.jpg ceb3fcc0b482c64a3f165b18c70ebc38 Artefact-physical Physical objects other than texts, photographs, maps etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1602181205 Title A name given to the resource 7 Milk Bottle Tops Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Pre 1967 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Pre 1967 Gibbs Shop, Reepham Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society Marjorie Gibbs Relation A related resource All items in Box 56 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Cardboard discs 42mm dia Description An account of the resource Round cardboard milk bottle tops, off-white background with red cow in the centre, 'FRESH FROM THE FARM : QUALITY GUARANTEED' written around the edge, a small red circle beneath the cow reads 'SIDE PRESS'. In the mid-1950s cardboard tops were deemed unhygienic and banned in some locations. Gibbs https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/23e317a2c1c50b338b6c8df5d7ef2a9f.jpg a9d5ebe6ca757761299f4d061a318151 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reepham Band Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/Groups/Reepham Band Photograph-printed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1608221150 Title A name given to the resource A Big Blow Description An account of the resource A photocopy of a newspaper cutting showing a crowded Market Place in the 1920s or early 1930s. A personal suggestion is that is part of a Reepham Annual Band Festival; there are at least three lots of brass band members in uniform amongst the crowd which also includes women and children.<br /><br />The heading 'A Big Blow' is also more suggestive of a band event rather than a gathering of agricultural workers. Hilton's Stores gives a possible date of 1923 or later. <em>(JDA/Aug/2016)</em><br /><br /><em>Included with this item are notes by Wesley Piercy about this picture indicating that it might have been a county rally of agricultural workers.</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1920s or 30s Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1920s or 30s Reepham Market Place Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource A4 photocopy Ring Box 2 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society RS Database 173 Band Contest Hilton's Stores https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/bc7533863807d939fa22a8fb0d2612e4.pdf 4ea4e180cd63a5030b78ab8fb229fde9 PDF Text Text A brief history of Hackford parish through the last millennium By Jennifer Roberts Jennifer Roberts lives in Pettywell and has been there now for several years. She is a qualified archaeologist. Though no longer practising that discipline she has a deep interest in local history. She is another of our authors who has completed a local history course under the aegis of Chris Barringer. This article is the result of the research carried out on her course and since. The view from a slightly different standpoint, that of Hackford, gives new details about the history of Reepham and its satellite villages. Hackford-by-Reepham is one of the three parishes sharing the communal churchyard in Reepham. The parish includes most of the town of Reepham and land on either side of the Eyn Brook. It is possible that the boundaries of the parish were determined by the heath and common on either side but this is by no means certain. It is possible that the name Hackford was derived from haca, a hook, or hoecc, a flood or sluice gate. “Ford” is Anglo-Saxon for river crossing. The name then could either mean a “ford at the bend of the river” or “the sluice gate (for catching fish) at the ford”. At the turn of the last millennium, just before the Norman Conquest the principal lordship of Hackford was held by a freeman called Wither. It is possible that Reepham was at the centre of a large Anglo-Saxon estate. After the Norman Conquest it was given to Earl William de Warrene, just one of the 139 manors he held. Although William de Warrene resided frequently at nearby Castle Acre, at the time of the Domesday survey the manor of Hackford was held by a person called Turold. There were few inhabitants, probably only 17 or 18 families lived in the area. The land was farmed, some was put down as meadow but cereals must have been grown as there was a mill. Honey and wax were important products. Beeswax was used for church candles, and it was the tradition for beekeepers to supply their local church. Hackford at that time had five skeps of bees. It had woodland able to support 30 swine. Sheep, rounceys (horses) and cattle were also kept. There was a church supported by 11 acres of land. It was valued at 15 marks. The manor passed through William de Warrene’s heirs for the next 200 years. in 1276/7 a Saturday market and annual fair charter was granted to Sir John de Vaux, who owned both the manors of Hackford and Reepham. An unofficial market had existed in the “cemetery of Reepham” for many years before the Bishop of Norwich, in 1240, ordered the Sheriff of Norfolk to ensure that a new market place was found. The market was held on Saturdays, with a fair on the “eve, day and morrow” of the feast of Saints Peter and Paul (29th June). The present market place lies in the parish of Hackford, but it is not known if this was the site decided on in the 13th century. �By the following century, the de Roos family held land in Hackford, probably as tenants of the de Warrenes. A few years later they are mentioned as being the holders of the knight’s fees and paying returns to the Duchy of Lancaster. Some of the local inhabitants during medieval times must have been fairly rich for the church of All Saints had a collection of rich vestments, communion ware and church ornaments, including silver chalices, a portable cross and a holy oil vessel. The vestments included some made from worsted, fusteyn (fustian) and velvet and silk. Margaret and Ralph Vernon, Hackford landowners, were possibly some of the major benefactors during the later part of the 14th century. During that century several of the Hackford residents stood surety, along with citizens of other parishes, to locals who were in trouble with the law. Brice of Hackford stood surety when Agnes Renandgo and her sister Emma were released on bail after being arrested for the murder of Richard Brightman at Billingford. A Richard of Hackford also stood surety in a murder case when Robert of Holden was accused of robbing and killing Henry of Clermont. Other 14th century crimes include robbery. One night William Rillo had one quarter-and-a-half of barley, worth 5/-, stolen from him. A Roger Willok was charged but acquitted for the offence. Some information about the medieval inhabitants of Reepham and Hackford parish can be gleaned from the old wills. For instance in 1429 Robert Baxter, a citizen of Norwich, is mentioned as owning lands in Hackford. Fifty years later Hugh atte Fenn made a will leaving 6/8d towards the upkeep of the church. He also left money, to be obtained from the sale of his lands and manors in Hackford, to help scholars at Cambridge and Oxford as long as they were not wasters and haunters of alehouses. William Cubit, the rector, in a will dated 1505, gave to the town and the church of Hackford a drinking house with two acres of land to have a yearly obituary kept in the church. He also mentioned that the guilds and “drinkings” of all the four parishes, i.e., Hackford, Whitwell, Reepham and Kerdiston, be kept there if they desired it. In a will dated a few years later John Goddying gave 6/8d towards the making of a chapel in the south part of the church if one happened to be erected there. If not, the money was to go to the upkeep of the church. In 1543 a fire burnt down most of All Saints, the parish church of Hackford, along with its church goods, ornaments and jewels. The fire also destroyed most of the town. The tower and parts of the west gable were the only parts of the church that survived. They were pulled down in 1790/6. It is, however, possible that a part of the gable can be seen in the tower of St Michael’s. A drawing in 1784 by E.F. Boon shows that the surviving tower had a chequerboard parapet and diagonal buttresses. The �south wall of the tower had a square sound hole and the porch an elaborate doorway. As a result of the fire, Hackford parish lost its independence and was joined with Whitwell. On 18th April 1544, an agreement was made between Robert Coke, owner of the fee simple of the church of Whitwell, Christopher Lockwode, clerk, parson of Hackford and vicar of Whitwell, and Thomas Bayfield, William Brese and John Blofield, parishioners of Hackford, that the church and rectory of Hackford was to be consolidated with Whitwell by William, Bishop of Norwich. According to this indenture all the parties were in agreement. However, some of the parishioners obviously intended that the church should be rebuilt. One, Anthony Sugate, bequeathed 20 marks (1 mark = 13/4d or 66.6p) towards its rebuilding. Some of the surviving church plate was sold in 1547 for £20, probably to stop the ministers of Edward VI getting their hands on it. Some of the church materials were used to repair roads in the parish and some were used to build the transept in Whitwell church. During the reign of Elizabeth I each parish had to provide a militia. The parish was involved in a muster in 1577. An inventory was taken of “all Common Armor, Artelery munition and weponne and every ptecular pson shewed”. It was found that the town had “one Corselet, one peke, too Curreors et Dom furnished”(!). Three people were also able to support arms. Vynse Hawude, Thomas Crotche and Roger Hase were able to furnish a few bows and arrows, pikes and helmets between them. The Bishop’s court had some dealings with local drunks. John Twithney and Henry Bagrave were brought before the Bishop’s representative on a charge of being common drunks. Henry Bagrave, who swore and resisted arrest later, confessed to being drunk every day of the week and was ordered to do penance. Around this time the inhabitants were having problems with a person called Robert Kirk. It seems he was extracting money from the people as fines and then keeping it for his own use. The parishioners paid him 6/- as payment for a fine for not planting hemp. A Thomas Croche then paid him 2/6d and then swore on “his book” to make a payment of 5/- yearly. Mr Berte, “Gent”, also agreed to pay Kirk 5/- a year for all years to come. Nathaniel Bacon set up an enquiry into Kirk’s misdeeds but the outcome of this appears to be lost. Hackford gained some notoriety during the Commonwealth when the parish refused to billet a party of troops because the commanding officer referred to the parish as Reepham instead of Hackford. At the same time the parish was paying £3.3s.10d per month towards the upkeep of troops and the furnishing of ammunition for the Royalist cause. As in Elizabeth’s time, the inhabitants were expected to attend �musters. Hackford men formed a Foot Militia under Sir W. Doylys, which mustered at Heydon Ollands on 24th September 1661 to be inspected. During the 17th century, weavers in Hackford, as in many of the local parishes, supplied worsted. During 1657 Henry Juby, a local worsted weaver, must have been having a period of prosperity. Surviving records show that he took on several apprentices: Matthew Bale, Roger Hammond and John Humfrey were indented for seven years while a John Crotch was indented for eight years. The social make-up of the parish changed during the next 100 years. The worsted weavers gradually disappeared, a result of cheap products from Yorkshire, and tanning became important as a local industry. The tanners were wealthy enough as a group to make wills. There was also an increase in the number of shops and professionals in the parish. Grocers, bakers, brewers, a surgeon and an excise officer were all wealthy enough to make wills. The provision of services increased rapidly so by the middle of the next century the inhabitants of Reepham and Hackford were well provided for. The town of Reepham had all the services that would be expected from a local market town. All needs were catered for, ranging from the people supplying the local brewing and malting industry with barrels, to those who made hats and dresses for the local female population. The town was well served by bakers, butchers, grocers, confectioners, cabinetmakers, gardeners and drapers. There was even a hairdresser. The parish was also served by a number of inns and taverns, most in the town but at least one, the Lamb Beer House, stood in the countryside. Links with Norwich, and thence the outside world, were maintained by a coach and carrier service. Local people believed it was the purity of the water which led to the excellence of the local ales. Although there were several brewers and maltsters in the parish, the Birchams were the major producers, so much so that when they were bought out in 1878, they had 50 associated pubs. In the parish generally though there was very little industrial activity. Like the worsted weavers of previous centuries, tanning also seemed to have disappeared from the parish, although there were tanneries in the local area. At the beginning of the 19th century the poor children of Hackford were reported to have been receiving a sufficient education. They attended a mix of Sunday school, evening school and day school. In 1837, however, the Rev. Holley established a school in the Old Poor House consisting of a boys’ school and a girls’ school and a house where the schoolmasters and mistresses could live. By 1844 the rector’s daughter had begun to hold a Sunday school in the school building. These were church schools for the children of Hackford and Whitwell. The children of Reepham parish had to wait until 1847 when St Mary’s School was set up. An inspector’s report �in 1869 said the National School was conducted in a highly satisfactory manner. The Methodists had also set up a schoolroom when they built the chapel in 1817. Goodwin Kilburn had run a day and boarding school in Reepham since 1836, when in 1846 he decided to sell up and emigrate. A Mrs Woolmer also ran a school for girls. The pauper children received an education in the workhouse. The poor Hackford children at this time went to Buxton. Their education must have been a somewhat patchy one for there seems to have been a problem in keeping and finding suitable mistresses. A Poor House had existed in Reepham for the inhabitants of Hackford for many years, but, by the 1840s, the poor of Reepham and Hackford were sent to the Aylsham Union Workhouse,1 which also included the old Gilbert Union workhouses at Buxton and Oulton until the new workhouse was built in 1849. Hackford parish paid around £100 annually towards the cost of housing its paupers. Some of the older inhabitants were receiving outdoor relief, which allowed them to live in their own homes. This came to around 2/6d per week. There were also several charities, which provided relief by paying out money for emigration and for people who had sudden illnesses and accidents. Most of the charity payouts were under the control of William Bircham. In April 1846 smallpox made its appearance in Hackford and the workhouse medical officer was asked to vaccinate the inhabitants. They protested. The outbreak continued and by October it had been decided to give extra money so all in the Reepham area could be vaccinated. Life must have been miserable for the poor of Reepham and Hackford, with the majority living in little more than hovels. However, the more able poor and the lower-middle classes were able to emigrate to a better life in the colonies. Goodwin Kilburn, the schoolmaster, is an example of this trend. He was 36, married with two small children, when he put the following advert in the Norfolk Chronicle. He was not the only local to emigrate between 1836−1842. The St Stephen’s charity had paid for some people in Reepham to go to America and it also paid for a Widow Beales to go to Ireland. Union workhouses served a “union” of parishes and these larger workhouses replaced the smaller parish workhouses. 1 �[Errata: Transcription of the newspaper entry regarding Goodwin Kilburn should read “to a distant county” not “country”.] In common with the rest of Norfolk, by the 19th century Hackford was celebrated for the growth of its barley. Other crops grown included turnips, peas and beans, clover and wheat. A certain amount was kept under grass, especially by the river and stream margins. Stock keeping was also important and provided some local employment in the form of drovers, tanners and cattle dealers. The annual stock fair continued to take place on 29th June. In 1804 William Bircham, who farmed 840 acres of the parish, was the major landowner. He improved his soil by marling and liming, used a six-year rotation but did not have any of the new threshing or drill machines. By 1846 the major landowners included the Rev. J. Bedingfeld Collyer, who owned 182 acres and resided at Hackford Hall, the Rev. J. Humphrey, who owned 144 acres, and John Sewell, who farmed 108 acres. Most of the land seemed to be farmed by small tenant farmers. Hackford escaped the wholesale destruction of machinery and property, which the rest of Norfolk suffered during the Swing Riots. �Maybe this was because the small tenant farmers could only afford to farm in the traditional way. By the 19th century around 23% of the local population were employed in agriculture on a permanent basis, although many more were employed doing seasonal work. Children were able to earn as much as 5d a day bird scaring, while gangs of women were employed hoeing, planting beans and thinning turnips. Many of the local clergymen were concerned for the morality and welfare of the fieldworking women especially as the gang masters were “rough bullying fellows who would bluster and swear”. A number of Hackford women, once the fieldwork was done, earned a few more pence by weaving straw hats. In 1804 a farm labourer would earn 1/6d daily rising to 4/6d at harvest. During the last millennium Hackford has been an essentially rural parish dependent on the small market town of Reepham for its infrastructure. This has remained largely unchanged although recent changes in mobility have brought Norwich and the wider world into commuting distance, thereby bringing new sources of money into the parish. From the Reepham Society Magazine, Millennium Edition, April 2001 Land use in Hackford 1846 (based on the Tithe Apportionment Map). �An aerial view of Reepham’s three churches. The last remnant of Hackford church can just be seen at the right of the clump of yews. The photograph can be dated by some differences from a present-day view. For instance, York House (top left) can be seen in the process of restoration in the background. �Hackford Hall. In 1846, at the time of the Tithe Apportionments, this was home to the Venerable John Bedingfield Collyer, Archdeacon of Norwich. �Pettywell Place, now lived in by Howard and Margaret Blandford-Baker, was formerly owned by the Eglington family. In 1846 it was owned by John Sewell but occupied by Margaret Rodham. This plaque adorns the wall in the yard of the Old Brewery. It marks the site of the former Bircham’s Brewery erected by William Bircham in 1839. �There was no piped water supply to Reepham until the 1950s. This well, which has now been restored, also in the Old Brewery yard, was the source of water for the brewing of Reepham Ale until 1876. � Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. 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Title A name given to the resource A brief history of Hackford parish through the last millennium Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2411061210 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource A4 PDF 11 pages Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001 Description An account of the resource An in-depth research paper on the history of Hackford parish from 1000 AD. <br /><br /><em>Refer to GB/REE/2103301155 for an explanation of the sketches of All Saints.</em> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jennifer Roberts Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Reepham Society Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Scanned and edited by Geoff Fisher Hackford Hackford Parish https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/d1f4b4fd42e62c6e1ab19ff7875726fc.mp4 ef0caf1a337555ff027d4f40c99d6489 Video-digital Digitally stored visual recording that plays over a period of time. 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Title A name given to the resource A Country House in Norfolk Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2309131030 Description An account of the resource 1min 27 second MP4 drone file of Salle Park.<br /><br /><em>Click on the film icon to view.</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2018 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Philip Leeder Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Anglia Aerial Images aerial https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/378b415af60b8f24b89d2c33b3f62675.pdf a84f456c39ac28a9ecce809f75d2c4ee PDF Text Text A Hero of Crecy? Reepham is one of those parishes, mostly to be found in East Anglia, which has more than one church in its churchyard. Reepham is unique in originally having held three churches in the one churchyard. Anyone who wants to follow up the 'shared churchyard' phenomenon is referred to an unpublished thesis by Nick Groves held in the Centre of East Anglian Studies, University of East Anglia1. This article was intended to be written about the shared churchyard but the subject has been thoroughly explored by Nick Groves in recent years and anything I wrote would be largely based on his work. Reepham is unique in having not just two but three churches in one churchyard. Such sharing has led to legends about shared inheritances and sisters who did not get on but the real reason for the sharing of the churchyard by Whitwell, Hackford and Kerdiston-with-Reepham is buried in the complex development of both lay and clerical aspects of the parishes. In Reepham's case this may be even more complex as it is possible that there were other churches or chapels in one or more of the three parishes. Grove's view is that Reepham's parochial development may be unique. He suggests that the concentration of churches in one churchyard may be the result of the coalescence of four separate parishes once tenurial holdings had become splintered and intercalated. There may, of course, originally have been something very special, perhaps sacred, about the site which focused the spiritual life of the parishes in this way for so long a period of time. Another distinction which St. Mary's church, Reepham, enjoys is the presence on the north side of the chancel of a magnificent decorated Gothic box-tomb, said to be of Sir Roger de Kerdeston who died in 1337. On the floor of the chancel is the brass of his grandson, Sir William (d. 1391). But, is it the tomb of Sir Roger? The identification of the occupant of the tomb seems to have been made some time ago by Blomefield2 or Stothard3 and has been accepted in local literature ever since. Certainly, this is the generally held 1 Anyone wishing to follow up this fascinating topic is recommended to Nick Grave's unpublished thesis; Two Sisters: Two Churches which is held in the department of East Anglian Studies at UEA. 2 Blomefield, F & Parkin, C. An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk (London: 1805) 3 Stothard,C A. The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain (London: 1817) �belief in Reepham and the information published in the church leaflets despite at least one primary source and three learned secondary sources which suggested a different occupant of the tomb. My attention was drawn to the identity of the occupant of this tomb by a chapter in Curry and Hughes' Arms, Armour and Fortifications of the Hundred Years War4. Kemp's chapter on church monuments of the time reviews the characteristics of monuments of this period and concludes that, judging by both the architectural style of the tomb and the style of armour which the effigy is wearing, the tomb is too late to be the tomb of Sir Roger. Indeed, the year of his death, 1337, was the year when Edward III fully committed himself to the first campaign of the Hundred Years War. Kemp's source for the identification of the box tomb is an article by Martindale (1989)5 which compares three tombs of similar and unique style, the knights lying uncomfortably, with arms and legs crossed, on a bed of stones. He suggests that the model for the tombs may be a classical statue in Rome which was mistakenly thought, throughout the Middle Ages, to represent Mars. Mars would have been seen as an appropriate inspiration for the tombs of heroes of the French Wars such as Sir Oliver Ingham, Seneschal of Gascony, and Sir William de Kerdeston who fought at Crecy in 1346. The third tomb in the group is at Burrough Green, Cambs. and is much more difficult to identify as it has been moved and greatly altered. The Reepham tomb is the best preserved of the three, though the Perpendicular canopy is badly damaged and the tomb is now recessed into the wall. All of these tombs, though displaying quality workmanship, had a considerable degree of painting rather than carving, much of which has now disappeared. The back panel of Sir Oliver's tomb at Ingham has been described by Stothard (1817) as still showing the remains of a hunting scene on the back panel whilst the de Kerdeston tomb still held vestiges of light blue and scarlet paint on the inside of the canopy at the time. Unfortunately, the colouring of the heraldic shields has also disappeared. Other characteristic features of the time which appear on the tomb of this hero, again comparable with features of the Ingham tomb; are the weepers along the side of the tomb chest and the angel high up in the west side, holding a shield, and the elaborate spires of the canopy, now somewhat damaged. Angels began to appear towards the end of the fourteenth century and, in this instance, the angel is intended to represent the transport of the soul of the deceased to heaven. All these monumental details date the tomb to the transitional period between the Decorated and Perpendicular Gothic periods, confirming the suggestion that this tomb is more likely to be that of the Sir William who died in 4 Kemp, B. English Church Monuments during the Period of the Hundred Years War in: Curry, A & Hughes, M (eds) Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War. (Woodbridge: Boydeil Press 1994). 5 Martindale, A. The Knights and the Bed of Stones: A Learned Confusion of the Fourteenth Century , J. Brit. Arch. Assoc CXLII (1989):64-73 �1361 than the earlier Sir Roger. The final piece of evidence is documentary and much stronger. The Complete Peerage is a gold-mine for anyone wishing to trace old family histories and contains information on the de Kerdeston family for just this period. It should be pointed out that the family owned lands elsewhere, including at Claxton and others brought into the family by marriage. The entry for Sir Roger tells us that he was born circa 1273 and fought in the Scottish wars, being knighted with Edward II after a muster in Berwick (1301). In 1324 he attended the Great Council in Westminster as a Knight of the Shire for Norfolk. He acted as a Commissioner of Array, and in 1331/2 was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk and Keeper of Norwich Castle and from 1333 was one of the custodians of the coast. (The 'Auld Alliance' was now in existence and there would be enemy ships passing between France and Scotland.) He was summoned once more to attend the King in the north and before his death appears to have been made Lord of Kerdeston. In 1337 he died and, here we have it, was buried in Langley Abbey. The Annals of Langley read as follows: Anno domini mcccxxxvii obiit dominus Rogerus de Kerdeston' miles et sepelitur in ecelesia Abbatie de Langley juxta matrem suam et ex parte australi eiusdem ecclesie. Sir William, his son, was born in 1307 and joined Edward III on both of his early campaigns in France and the Low Countries. He was present at the first battle of the Hundred Years War, the naval clash at Sluys in 1340. Two years later he joined the King's next expedition to France with 10 men-at-arms and 10 archers. In 1346 he fought as a banneret at Crecy and was present at the famous siege of Calais at which Queen Phillipa begged for the lives of the burghers of Calais. William was married three times and died in 1361 leaving no legitimate son. He had a number of children from the three marriages but, strangely, only Maud, born in 1324, was born in wedlock. Maud married John de Burghersh and from hereon the legitimate branch of the family moved to Essex. This appears to be the man who is buried in the elaborate box-tomb in Reepham church. He was certainly a hero of the wars and it appears that Norfolk would be all too aware of the war as demands to support both naval and land forces were made on the county. Norfolk churches contain a number of tombs of the leaders who fought in this early successful stage of the war when some of the battles best known in England were won. These two lords of Kerdeston would be the most likely members of their family to receive a local accolade for their services in the French and Scottish wars and the evidence for Sir William has already been explored. If we accept that the occupant of the box-tomb is Sir William, we then have to identify the knight and his wife represented on the brass in the chancel floor. It is generally accepted at present that the brass is of Sir William de Kerdeston who �inherited the Kerdeston estate from his father despite his illegitimacy. The son of Maud, another John de Burghesh, had been excluded from the Kerdeston lands by his grandfather's will because John had other lands in Essex and Lincoln and his grandfather obviously wished to provide for his other children. John's father died young and he became the King's ward. It was, perhaps, this which led the Burghesh family to continue to claim the Kerdeston lands. They were finally settled on William de Kerdeston's family in 1372. The brass, putatively dated to 1369, possibly belongs to this illegitimate Sir William. Unfortunately, the 'Complete Peerage' gives us very little on his career except for the details of the inheritance dispute which dragged on into the fifteenth century before the lands were finally settled on the de la Pole family. There is also the possibility that the brass may represent John de Burghesh who fought in France though he appears to have been buried at Hatfield Peverel in Essex. So far the evidence points to the box-tomb's occupant being Sir William (d. 1361) but whether the brass is that of the second Sir William has not yet been proven. More research is needed. The complications of inheritance through the female line and of second marriages by widows have confused the picture. The documents in the case, however, show some interesting links with well-known families (see also genealogical table). Maud's granddaughter married Thomas, son of a certain Geoffrey Chaucer. Their child, Alice, married William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk. Once the Poles retained the manor of Kerdeston, their tenant until 1498 was Sir Terry Robsart who had married an Elizabeth Kerdeston, great grandson of the Hero of Crecy. His granddaughter was Amy Robsart. Kerdeston may be a Norfolk backwater now but it was on the edge of great affairs five hundred years ago. Kate Nightingale January 1998 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 1998 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1337 - 1498 Reepham Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1705061129 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource K Nightingale Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Verbatim CD-R (585) Digital PDF document Local History/K Nightingale [File 10] Description An account of the resource An account of the box tomb located in St Mary's Church, Reepham Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved Crecy Pre-1500 St Mary's https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/ae85a78d28cae1e8a94559df517dc5b5.pdf 6a719098f85ab2744de0717f0dc3a6f4 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Monday, September 16, 2019 A hive of business activity on Norwich Road October’s photograph from the Reepham Life 2019 Calendar shows a very quiet picture of Norwich Road, Reepham, in the early 1900s (probably on a Monday, judging by the washing hanging out). The first building on the right housed a harness maker, John Rooke: saddles and harnesses can be seen draped over the wall. He later moved to Cawston, but kept a shop on the other side of the road, which can be seen on the left in the picture below, taken later. The railings in both pictures have disappeared, but the holes in the top of the wall, in front of the modern houses, can still be seen. The ground where John Rooke built his new shop was at one time a garden belonging to Jesse Bircham, the chemist whose shop can be seen in the second picture. Jesse’s mother Hannah had worked for Thomas Staples, another chemist, for many years and carried on the business after he died in 1858. Jesse joined the business with his mother in the 1890s and continued until his death in 1925. �Further along on the right was the house lived in by the Beaver family. Still called Beaver House, it was bought by Catherine Gooch’s father when she married Arnold Beaver in the 1890s and Arnold ran a grocery and drapery, and also sold household furnishings and tea. Arnold later became an assessor and collector of taxes and in 1922 was appointed a Justice of the Peace. Around the time of the calendar photograph, other occupants of Norwich Road included a veterinary surgeon, a grocer and draper, a boot and shoemaker, Salvation Army officers, a plumber, a painter/decorator and later a butcher, whose shop was in the building behind the children. Janet Archer � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. 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Title A name given to the resource A hive of business activity on Norwich Road Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 2019 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Norwich Road Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1909241230 Description An account of the resource Norwich Road in the early 1900s, with brief details about Beaver House, Jesse Bircham and John Rooke. Beaver Bircham Norwich Road RL Calendar 2019 Staples https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/a5ef85ea799b1a87b23b19c5bf1f100e.pdf ce121e27bf05fa6bcab99d1bdebca2c7 PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Friday, June 16, 2017 A riddle from the grocery store Can a man’s pocket be empty when he’s got something in it? Yes, when he’s got a hole in it! This is one of the riddles printed underneath a series of cartoons on a large sheet of paper with “Richard Amiss Grocer, Draper & General Dealer” and “Reepham” beneath each one. The paper is broadsheet size and looks like an early form of advertising. One side contains 12 cartoons with an extra riddle underneath. The other side has snippets of songs that come from familiar folk songs, such as The Keel Row, sentimental ditties and humorous music hall songs popular in the mid-19th century, such I won’t be a nun. Maybe the whole sheet was used for wrapping large items bought in Richard Amiss’s shop? It would not have been cheap to have sheets like this printed so we assume that Amiss was a fairly prosperous merchant; he is mentioned in various early directories as a Grocer, Draper & Tailor. In 1841 he was working as a tailor in Norwich Road with two young apprentices. Ten years later he is named as a Master Tailor, Grocer & Draper employing a Journeyman Tailor with two apprentices and by 1861 his shop was in the Market Place. Richard Amiss had at least four children: two boys, Alfred and Elijah, who died in their youth, and two daughters, Louise and Pamela. Louise married Samuel Sewell Eglington. Pamela, the youngest daughter, married Edward Page, a carpenter and coal merchant. By 1871 the Pages were running the Crown Inn and Pamela continued to run the Crown after Edward’s death in 1911. Janet Archer � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource From 2016 to the present Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/From the Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF documents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Riddle from the Grocery Store Description An account of the resource Information about Richard Amiss, a grocer, draper and tailor of Reepham in the mid-1800s. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 2017 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131545 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Amiss Page https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/e7c68058641e9c48915943921e7cb08a.pdf a8e56fdb464e0a5f862ec2482b0d010e PDF Text Text from the Archive Post date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 A shepherd and his sheep Sheep and their wool were an important economic force from medieval times. By the middle of the 17th century two-thirds of England’s foreign commerce was based on wool, and everyone who had land, from peasants to major landowners, raised sheep. Evidence of the landowners’ prosperity can be seen in the many beautiful churches in Norfolk, such as St Peter and St Paul, Salle. The March picture in the Reepham Life 2018 Calendar of the shepherd and his boy reminds us that by the 19th century things were very different and sheep were traded primarily for their meat. The Reepham Archive believes that this is a photograph of a young Robert Eaglen possibly with his father John. John Eaglen was a shepherd all his life, born in Little Witchingham in 1832. As a boy he lived in Booton, and after marrying we find him living in Low Common Cottages in Whitwell with his wife Emily and a large family. Robert (born 1874) also became a shepherd for a while and two of his brothers are called “Shepherd’s Page” in the occupation column of the 1881 Census. By 1911 Robert was married with two children and had become a gamekeeper, living on Bawdeswell Road. The Norfolk Electoral Rolls for 1919 show him with his wife Laurena working as a gamekeeper on an estate near Swaffham. (Topically, Laurena also had the vote on account of her husband having an occupation and of them not being lodgers – they were renting their house at the time.) Although her parents moved away from Reepham, Robert’s daughter Fernleigh married Arthur Hardiment of Hardiment’s Stores, the grocery shop in Reepham’s Market Place. Janet Archer � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From the Archive Description An account of the resource Illustrated articles contributed to Reepham Life and to Reepham & District Community News. From 2018 most articles related to matching months in Reepham Life Calendars. 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Title A name given to the resource A Shepherd and his Sheep Description An account of the resource Some details of the life of Robert Eaglen, shepherd & gamekeeper, who lived on Bawdeswell Road. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 2018 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1907131525 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital PDF document Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource JDA Eaglen Hardiment RL Calendar 2018 shepherd https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/78bc6226e1c2241a92b846b154a63906.pdf a8268619a3d301daf5240f53364cada7 PDF Text Text A thousand years of Salle During the millennium year, Salle village, church and estate celebrated the history of Salle on a beautiful June day. Morning service was attended by most of the villagers, followed by drinks at the hall with Sir John White before everyone joined in a barbeque at the Village Institute. The afternoon was spent in watching a cricket match or climbing the church tower for a glimpse of the splendid view from the top. This was a real traditional village event made all the better by the blessing of good weather. To bring memories of the past into the present, Claire Buxton, chairman of the Parish Meeting, with help from long-time inhabitants of the village, such as Ben Stimpson, had organised an exhibition in the church. This included archive material and a fascinating display of metal detector finds dating back across most of the last two millennia and collected by Richard Saunders who lives and works in Salle. This article is based on a brief history of Salle which was available as a handout on the day. Origins Salle lies on the top of the Norfolk watershed between the Bure and Wensum rivers. It is, in very many ways, a typical Norfolk village. Its history from before the beginning of this millennium illustrates what was and is happening in many other Norfolk villages. The name “Salle” is usually taken to derive from sallows, the old name for willows but other suggestions have been put forward. Is it a corruption of “aul” the old English word for hall? One of the manors in the village was once known as Kingshall which could easily lend itself to shortening as “Sall”. Or perhaps it is related to an old northern word describing a high, windy place that appears in the Cumberland name Black Sail Pass? Salle is high and windy − for Norfolk. The land of the village has always belonged to one or other of the manors in the parish. Now, it is almost entirely part of the Salle Farms estate. Before the improvements of recent centuries this would have been regarded as poor soil and used for sheep, much perhaps remaining as common land which was important also for the poorer villagers. In the past, those with common rights not only grazed their animals on the common but also collected wood and kindling and wild fruit. This left their own small plots, or “pightles”, to be cultivated to feed the family. As in the rest of the county, enclosure started quite early in Salle to meet the changing needs of the farms. Commons and small pightles and closes have now long been enclosed and those old, open fields themselves have been changed to meet the needs of modern farming practices. A small landowner in the village is the church but it is the large and beautiful church itself which is the jewel in Salle’s crown and perhaps the best known building in this part of Norfolk. Salle church has recently figured in England’s Thousand Best �Churches by Simon Jenkins (1999). No one should leave the village without making a tour of this unique church. Built on the wealth of the wool grown on the sheep which grazed the local heaths, its presence emphasises the change from stock farming to arable which has taken place over the centuries as the farming families who built it grew wealthier. Heath, pasture and woodland have now largely given place to open arable fields. The building of Salle church by a group of leading sheep farmers in the 15th century and its maintenance since by leading local families shows how such families have always been important in supporting the life and people of a village and its surroundings. The families and manors of Salle Perhaps the most important historian of Salle is Rev. Walter Parsons who was the parson here for over 30 years. As a former scholar of Pembroke College and Dean of Selwyn College, Cambridge, he took great interest in researching the history of his parish. His book Salle saves all of us much time and effort when researching the early history of the village, the manors and the church. It provides invaluable information on the history of the village and is available from Reepham Library. Salle also figures in the Paston Letters. One of the Salle manors belonged to the Mauteby family, one of whose daughters married into the Paston family. Although litigious and concerned about keeping a grip on their lands, like so many medieval Norfolk farmers and lords, the letters concerning Salle directly are often concerned with the promotion of a courtship between John Paston and Margery Brewes. The Pastons remained closely associated with Salle for the next 100 years. Salle itself is mentioned in Domesday Book when it was said to have four manors. The history of the manors is well testified. Today, Salle Moor Hall and Stinton Manor House probably represent the site of two of the manors while a third was probably finally destroyed when Salle Hall was built. Parsons speculates that the fourth manor house was sited on the Wood Dalling side of Gatehouse Farm near the bridge over the stream. Salle Moor Hall was a Bullen (Boleyn) possession from the 14th to the 16th century. Yes, that is the family of Anne Boleyn! But there is no evidence that she ever lived in Norfolk! More recently in the hands of the Stimpson family, Salle Moor Hall now belongs to Ardisher Naghshineh who is farming this land organically. Ben Stimpson is now the only member of the Stimpson family still living in Salle. Though now past his 90th birthday, he remains a forceful member of the community and was, until very recently, still a churchwarden. His knowledge of the past and present of Salle village and its church and people is unsurpassed. Stinton Manor is the manor that was formerly a royal manor but that was before the Norman Conquest. Domesday Book tells us that this “Kings Manor” belonged to �Godwin − the father of King Harold. Harold, himself, held Cawston. By the time of Domesday, both were held by one Ralph who was made Earl of Norfolk. He rebelled and his lands were given to the new Earl, William de Warenne, one of William’s major lords who built Castle Acre. Stinton House, having passed through the hands of the Townsends of Raynham and Bulwer Longs of neighbouring Heydon, is now part of the Salle estate and is, at present, the home of Paul Hovesen, the Salle Farms estate manager who came here from Denmark some 13 years ago. Many other well-known Norfolk families have held land in Salle: the Briggs, Fountaines, Pastons, Townsends and Earles, to name but a few. After Edward Hase created the park and built the hall in 1765 it passed to the Jodrell family after Richard Paul Jodrell of Lewknor in Oxfordshire married his daughter. She had inherited the right to a baronetcy from her uncle, John Lombe, which now passed to the Jodrells. The Jodrells were squires here until Major Timothy White, who owned the chain of chemist shops, now absorbed by Boots, bought the estate in 1890. Both these families have done a great deal to both preserve and to develop the estate and parish of Salle. Farms and farmers of Salle One interesting point emerging from early history is a suggestion that this was an area with many “freemen” in the Middle Ages. Their counterparts, after the 16th century, were the yeomen farmers, tenants of the remaining farms in the village, all of which now belong in one capacity or another to the estate. These were the successful men who prospered by buying up and enclosing land after the collapse of the feudal system. A number of their old farmhouses have been sold off as private houses though some remain as part of the estate. A typical example of an old farmhouse is Park Farm, formerly Bog Farm, standing on the edge of old water meadows which lie between Salle and the former royal manor of Cawston. This is now the home of Andrew and Claire Buxton. Andrew farmed with his brothers in Heydon and now works for himself while Claire is chairman of Salle Parish Meeting. Park Farm stood empty for some years until it was used as a film set for the television production of Mill on the Floss, which was filmed largely on location around mid-Norfolk. Since then, it has been restored with a considerable degree of sympathy to retain much of its original character. The date 1770 can be discerned in the brickwork on the front of the house but the house is older than this. Like many Norfolk houses it has been refurbished or rebuilt repeatedly over the years. Manor Farm, which may have been closely associated with Dorothy Repps, motherin-law of the builder of Salle Hall, remains an integral part of the estate as the farm office. It probably started life as a common-edge manor house in the Middle Ages. The late 18th century estate maps indicate that the area that is now Bluestone Wood �was then common land as was an area near the bridge on the way to Cawston. The name “Brake Pasture” of a field next to the park, also indicates common. A “brake” was a field cut out of common or heath. The insertion of an older staircase into Manor Farm may have been carried out because Edward Hase lived in Manor Farm after the destruction of the former manor house. The date on Park Farm also seems to link the improvements to these two farms with the creation of the park and building of the hall in the late 18th century. Practically next door to Manor Farm lies Cherry Tree Farm. This still belongs to the Bulwer Longs of Heydon and illustrates how closely interlinked all the villages, manors and farms of this group of villages are. This probably stems from the old manorial system when strips of land were held in a variety of open fields, not always close together or even in the same parish. Later, we find farmers owning strips belonging to different manors. This is shown particularly clearly on the 1846 tithe map where the few remaining strips still held by individuals show where the old open fields existed. This intermix also affected the parish boundaries. Until very recently a long strip of Reepham parish cut right across Salle Park, balanced by a strip of Salle, which reached down to Reepham Moor. The parish boundary has now been changed to adjust this anomaly which had been perpetuated over time, possibly due to old land ownership boundaries, perhaps to allow a manor or tenant to have a mix of arable land and water meadow. Salle Village The village itself is not large, consisting of a scatter of houses leading down past the cricket pitch from the church. It comprises cottages probably built on the sites of the old “tofts and crofts”, formerly worked by tenants who may also have been craftsmen and whose families would have spun and woven woollen cloth in the time between all their other tasks. Even in the past the number of brick built or stone houses would not have been much more than now. There would, however, have been many more residents, working the land, carrying out their trades in the village or working as servants on the farms. Families were also much larger, and expectations lower, until well into this century, so each house supported more people. The old school house still stands opposite the church. The school was originally a “non-provided school”, that is to say, it belonged to the estate and was administered under an agreement with the Board of Education as a church school. As owner, the squire was, therefore, chairman of the Board of Managers and appointed several of them. Surviving correspondence in the White family archives gives interesting insights into the running of the school around the turn of the century. Education was already fairly closely controlled and inspected and the school developed over time to �include examinations and scholarships as opportunities opened up. The staff consisted of a headmistress, most of whom seem to have come from southern counties and were required to have musical skills and to be able to teach physical education as well as the other more usual attributes of any teacher. The headmistress was supported by one assistant teacher and/or a “monitress” who was a senior pupil of promise. The letters of these women, written when applying for the job, indicate that they had very little money. Shades of Jane Eyre! Before the First World War children would have finished their education by 12 years of age. In such a rural area, holidays were taken to allow the children to help with the harvest and these had to be specifically requested from the education authorities. Mrs Williamson, the last teacher, is buried in the churchyard. Next door is the Lynton White Institute, built by the White family, which provides a home for the Parish Meeting and a site for social events, not least cricket teas, as the institute stands on the edge of a splendid cricket field. On the other side of the field is the forge, owned by the church and still a fully fitted working forge, though no longer regularly used. The first of the houses in the village is the former “White Horse” public house now converted to a dwelling house since its closure in the late 1960s. The Street continues down to Gatehouse Farm between two rows of cottages, some of which are occupied by estate workers. There were more cottages around the eastern fringe of the park and a dairy farm in the park but there is very little more than a few bricks left from these buildings. More interesting are the houses in the park itself and the picturesque style lodge cottages at the four entrances to the park. These have one unique feature as lodges: they are on the opposite side of the road from the hall. Most of them have now been adapted or enlarged by the estate to meet the needs of their inhabitants. The village is, obviously, dominated by its magnificent church but nothing has been included here, as booklets on the history of the church are available in the church. Suffice to say that the church of St Peter and St Paul continues to attract visitors to view its architectural splendour and music lovers who wish to take advantage of its excellent acoustics to perform and listen to concerts and to make recordings. Salle Park By far the largest house in the village is Salle House. Edward Hase created the park itself in the late 18th century before he built the house. A map, still in existence, shows how Edward Hase bought up small closes and strips to make the park, processes know to historians as “engrossment” and “emparkment”. When Edward Hase died, he fortunately left a Memorandum Book which Sir Richard Jodrell continued to use after he succeeded in 1804 so we can date and follow some of the early developments in the park. Gardens and trees were planted, a beautiful walled �garden still remains in use and there is an icehouse in the shrubbery. Work continues to maintain house and gardens in their present good order. Pat Dennis, who has now returned to the village of his birth, keeps the gardens in order without the army of under-gardeners and boys of former days. He still lives in the old gardener’s house next to the walled garden. Fortunately, pleasure gardens were not fashionable when the house was built and were never planned to be very large though extended across the south lawn as far as an ornamental ha-ha before 1846. One particularly happy aspect of the park is the number of magnificent trees it contains. Of course, creators of parks, following the ideas of Humphry Repton (now buried in Aylsham churchyard) and Capability Brown, looked for a natural effect in their new parks. Trees were often planted in clumps or as shelter belts but also in “rows”. One way of achieving a rapid mature effect was to retain the trees which had formerly stood in hedgerows along field boundaries. It is possible to identify these former hedge lines from aerial photographs and old maps even though, in their more mature state, the lines are not always obvious as trees succumb to old age or storms. Many trees have been felled during the 200 years of the park’s existence. However, one major oak tree, which must predate the park by some considerable time, still remains. It is now a huge and venerable veteran supporting considerable amounts of wildlife. The park trees have always been well cared for and a new avenue of horse chestnut trees is now beginning to grow up along the main drive across the park. New plantings of park trees also include Turkey, evergreen, red and English oaks. Salle House Salle House was built in 1763. It is a mid-Georgian neoclassical building influenced by the emerging forces of romanticism. It consists of a two-and-a-half storey central wing of seven bays, built in red brick with a stone Ionic pediment on both north and south elevations and a hipped roof surrounded by a balustrade. The architraves of the principal doors are also of stone. A single-storey wing extends to both east and west where two courts were converted to an orangery on the east and a billiard room on the west in Major White’s time. The Victorian upper storey, added over the billiard room, has since been demolished. Beyond the wings, low two-storied buildings extend on either side – to the coach house and stables on the east. The appearance of Salle House is now almost identical to a drawing on an estate map of 1807. This, however, is due to work carried out by Sir John White who has now restored the house both inside and outside while retaining its original character extremely well. Salle Farms Estate Salle Farms is now entirely arable. Crops include large-scale cultivation of barley, beet, beans, peas and wheat on land which, before the improvements of recent �centuries, would have been regarded as poor soil and used for sheep, The estate also remains conscious of its stewardship of the countryside. Successful modern farming is contract farming to meet the needs of large-scale food suppliers. Output is constantly monitored by the use of satellite technology. In addition to the large-scale production of grain, pulses and sugar beet, a recent addition has been the appearance of plantations of Christmas trees which provide work during quieter periods of the year. Areas of set-aside supplement other conservation innovations that are now possible Attitudes to the countryside have changed in recent years and many who formerly knew little about it are able to get out and about and have demanded access to a countryside which they regard as a common heritage. This can be a two-edged sword. Unlimited access can be disruptive to wildlife habitat, to game birds and to growing crops alike. However, many footpaths and green lanes marked on the OS maps are maintained to provide walks across the estate. Some paths have been diverted round the edges of fields rather than cutting through the middle. Those who wish to quibble at this should remind themselves that walking along the hedge is much more interesting as this is where the greatest variety of flora and fauna is to be seen. In addition to the more conspicuous pheasants and partridges reared on the estate, and the ever-present rabbits, there are less evident denizens of this land. Stoats, weasels and other small mammals are much shyer but are still in abundance where there is a large rabbit population. Though many small birds have disappeared in recent years there are a number of larger birds to be seen. Herons and kestrels are regular hunters in the area. Barn owls are becoming re-established and three are nesting on the estate. Recently, a group of Canada geese have settled near one of the ponds. These birds can be a mixed blessing and have become a nuisance on some farms elsewhere. The more remote part of the estate is hare country and numbers of mad March hares are to be seen every spring. Yes, there are large fields but many new hedges have been planted and old hedges preserved. Other conservation measures are being undertaken. These include the planting of broadleaf trees along the old railway line near the Cawston boundary and maintenance of existing patches of woodland on the estate. One important conservation measure now being implemented is the scheme whereby four-metre strips along watercourses are left as permanent set-aside to reduce the risk of contamination of ground water by pesticides and so forth. The watercourse, which crosses the estate from beyond Wood Dalling, winding round past Cawston to Booton, is a case in point. Anyone who walks down the road by the side of Wood Dalling church should note the ditch on the right-hand side which is full of wildflowers, especially primroses and orchids in springtime. This ditch now has a �preservation order on it. Yet, it was dug very recently, showing that modern farming activity is not always destructive. Much of the information in this article was obtained from the White papers and Bullen papers, now held in the Norfolk Record Office. From the Reepham Society Magazine, Millennium Edition, April 2001 Salle church from the south on a winter‘s day in January. This huge and beautiful church dominates the skyline. �Manor Farm as it today when it is in use as the Salle Farms estate office. Salle village street looking west from the church. The larger house on the left was formerly the White Horse public house. �Salle Hall from the southern garden. The park is so thickly planted with trees that there is only one sight line from which the hall can be seen. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource A thousand years of Salle Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2411291145 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource A4 PDF 10 pages Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001 Description An account of the resource A brief history of Salle written to mark the Millennium in 2001 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived From the Reepham Society Magazine, Millennium Edition, April 2001 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Reepham Society Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Scanned and edited by Geoff Fisher Salle https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/cdf67a9bfbc6d71c91ab9f5cb9d6ed67.pdf 2686efd83740d69b9183492b570b3ef8 PDF Text Text Parish Magazine September 1978 A TRUE STORY told by Henry Edward Hawes May 1st 1953 ____________ Of Reepham, starting from Messr. Allen's Bus Garage, taking the Right hand side of the Road, up and around the Market Place to the Town's End, and around by the other side of the Market Place, Church Plain, by the two Churches, finishing at St.Mary's School, mentioning the names and trades of People dating from about 1868, or about 85 years ago. ____________ I was put to Rebecca Goose's house now known as Swiss Cottage, with about 8 or 9 boys and girls during the Summer Holiday, the National School being closed mothers paying threepence a week. Mrs. Allen's house adjoining was occupied by Mr. George Howard who was Carpenter and Builder. His house was built of clay, with a grape vine on the front. His workshops was a thac (thatched?) barn. He had Three sons, William, George and Fred and one daughter named Esther. My father was foreman. Next was a twenty five Quarter Malt House with Barley Chamber, Steep lined with lead, two floors, kiln, malt store pump, and a large enclosed ground known as Malt House Yard. This was sold by auction at the King's Arms Hotel by Messrs. Spelman on Wednesday March 26th 1879. Next come the George and Dragon. This was tenanted by Mr. Dennis Hurrell. His daughter Hannah was housekeeper; afterwards she married John Coe the pig dealer etc. Next come Messrs. Randall's Ironmonger Shop. The tenant was Alfred C. Savoury, he carried on business as Baker, Confectioner - Bricklayer and Smoked Meat. He had a talking parrot, his wife had a sister named Savage who lived at Brandistone, she came to Reepham on Wednesdays with donkey and tumbril for drams from the Brewery. When the parrot thought the sisters had sufficient talk it would call out "Go away (you and) your old dickey (donkey?) Mrs. (Missus)". Next come Randell's house and premises. The tenant was Robert Parker Gooch he employed a blacksmith Richard Bishop and his son. It was a public house known as Ferrier's Arms (Farrier's Arms). He also sold Arnold's Ale in 4 1/2 and 9 gallon casks. He also sold milk at 1 1/2 d per pint. The Gentlemen Urinal can be seen today. The walls of part of the house now used as stores are built in clay. There were three daughters Jane Margaret and Catherine. Next come the Butcher's shop. The tenant was Joe Burton. He was a fine built man and carried on the butchering business for many years, until his sight failed. I was sent by my mother on Tuesday nights with a large basin with her name wrote in ink and called for it on Wednesdays. It was for bullock's fry 8 1/2 d per lb. The liver was given in free. (Ration books quite unknown). Parish Magazine October 1978 A TRUE STORY (continued) Now we come to the thatch houses. The tenant was James Sizeling who had one son and I think he had two daughters. His business was Postillion at the Kings Arms Hotel. On Saturdays he went to Norwich mounted, with red coat on, a bugler behind, this was in John Badcock's time leaving the Kings Arms at 9 o'clock returning about 5.30. �Now we come to Mr. Pratt's house and the other two houses on Church Plain. Pratt's house was occupied by Mrs. Leeds she was a sister of Burton the butcher. Her husband was otherwise known as Greyhound Stephen. They kept cows and sold milk at 1 1/2 d per pint. The cow mangers can be seen on enquiry from Mrs. Pratt at the shop. Now we come to the cottage occupied by W. Morris. This was occupied by Mr. Mason he was a cooper by trade and made tubs etc. for the Bircham's Brewery. The other two cottages on Church Plain. One was occupied by my grandfather James Hawes who was a Tailor by trade and my Aunt Betsy Hawes who did dressmaking. She had two grown up apprentices, Mrs. Russell, wife of John Russell, and Sally Dove, daughter of Dove, farmer, Gt. Witchingham. My grandfather told me he had to make yearly for Samuel Bircham Esq, Booton Hall, ten duffle coats for men, and Betsy made ten scarlet petticoats for women. These the Esquire gave away to the aged and Poor at Christmas time (Bless his kindness). The memorial stone with his name on also some of his family who died in their teens in St. Michael's near the belfry. The other tenant was Mrs. Vardigans (Miss). For her living she cleaned and dyed straw hats, she always wore a bonnet and shawl. The shawl was a bit bronze in colour I guess from age. I believe she delivered letters round the market place and the outskirts on Sunday mornings. After her death Barney Southgate took the cottage. He was a travelling handsaw sharpener. His wife did a little in the straw hat but not much. Next come the Tailors shop. This was a lock up shop, Mr. Thomas Bircham was the tenant. He had several grown up apprentices. Mr. Charles Frankland the Moor, also Mr. W. A. Pask the well known tailor. Mr. Pask died about ten years ago. The next come Mrs. Gowan's (Mrs. Goward) house. This house I was born in. I was born on Sept. 23rd 1863 this will make me just about 90 years old. The next come the Post Office. I remember Mr. John Boon, Boot and Shoe maker, living there. They had two daughters and one son, Jane Ethel and Henry. Ethel now lives at Carlton Forehoe, Barnham Broom, We exchange friendly letters together. After the Boon family moved out Mr. Shepherd moved in. He was a cooper by trade and made wash killers, Flour Kids and other fancy goods. He came to Reepham as a married man police constable and lived at the police station next door to Inspector Woolner (Woolmer?). He had two sons, Charles and Harry, these were both school pals of mine. After Mr. Shepherd had been in Reepham about three years his wife fancied another husband so Shepherd became a single man and had to leave his police station house. Mr. Shepherd took in Harry Everitt as an apprentice. Harry was another pal of mine. Harry's parents lived in the house now occupied by Mr. Utting, near the Chapel. His father was Gardener to the Reverend Holley who lived in the Market Place. Next come the house occupied by Mr. William Bishop the watch and clock maker. It was occupied by Barber Rudd. He had a big mound under the front window about 3 feet high and about 4 feet 6 wide made of mould and stones, covered with ivy etc. The barber did a good trade in rearing canaries. He also learnt the good men of Reepham how to use the boxing gloves. The barber was my God Father (what a choice for my parents to make) unless they thought of the relationship. The Barber's wife and my grandmother were sisters. �Parish Magazine February 1979 A TRUE STORY (being a continuation of the description by the late Mr. Henry Edward Hawes in 1953 of Reepham Market Place as he remembered it about 1868- the first two instalments having appeared in the Sept. & Oct. issues) The alley adjoining to Bishop's shop years ago went as the name St.John's Alley, otherwise Barber Rudd's Alley. The cottage now occupied by Mr. William Fuller (once Lines' and Barrets') was formerly two cottages. One occupied by Mrs. Hannah Mears who was a good midwife. The other was occupied by Punch Frost, his daughter Mrs. Manthorpe, her husband and their son and daughter (they were packed in like pills in a box). The house now occupied by Robert Allen and family was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Eglington and their well known son Mr. Sidney Eglington. Mr. Mark Eglington had a small farm at Kerdistone which made him late home some nights. Mrs. Eglington, who sometimes went to have a gossip with her mother, Mrs. Robert Parker Gooch, left me in charge with Sidney to rock the cradle. If he was a bit unruly I would give him a slight pat. If he cried a little it was alright, if he got loud both of us would cry till my mother would come and finish the rocking, she only living in the same yard my father putting me to bed up the attic near the sky. I was Mr. Sidney Senior ten years. The cottage now occupied by Mr. Henry Coe against the Salvation Army. Mr. Henry Coe was relation to Mr. Overton who travelled in the country with his ventriloquial knowledge, Mr. Coe acting as his agent in advance etc. His house was formerly occupied by Mr. Blythe. Mr. Blythe was a Boot and shoe repairer, he had three sons, Tony who was a tailor, Joshua who worked in the Ollands garden as a gardener in Brewer Bircham's time. The other one was Tom who was apprentice to Mr. Goddard as a cabinet maker. The next comes Mr. Cocking's property. Before Mr. Cocking bought it from Mr. William Allen it formerly belonged to Mr. St.John. Mr. Allen soon altered it and employed four different tradesmen at one time. Mr. Thomas Blythe, builder, Foulsham put in the shop front. Mr. Allen's brother from Burnham came over, made the approach to the shop by altering the railing from the front to crossways, he putting up a date stone as can be seen today 1884. The other tradesman was Mr. Thomas Tomasten of Gt. Witchingham who did what brickwork was required, the other was my father who did the carpentering work. Before Mr. Allen purchased the property it was owned by Mr. St.John who carried on business as a tallow chandler and made the ordinary tallow candles, also the rush candles. A man named Todd came from Norwich with a large cart and horse and took most of them. The writer have seen them making the candles, anyone can see the lath window where the candles were made. (Perhaps Messrs. Fords' yard is the best view of the window.) Parish Magazine March 1979 A TRUE STORY (continued) Mrs. Miller's front room and the bedroom above was used for drying the candles, there were pegs around the two rooms made of wood similar to hat and cloak hooks. The access from the front room to the bedroom had a wide rough step ladder. Mr. St.John had two tall smart daughters. He thought more of the daughters than he did his wife. He provided a chestnut coloured pony and Phaeton for them go out to drives etc. A man named James Vardigans was paid to keep the the phaeton and harness clean. Mr. St.John was Captain of the Reepham Manual Fire Brigade. Every year at Midsummer time he had the Fire Brigade in the Market Place for a practice. Mr. William Bircham the Brewer had four or five water carts of water ready for the occasion. After the practice St. John gave the firemen a shilling each and then the men adjourned to the Brewery for light refreshments (the quantity was best known to themselves). Mr. Francis Bircham, second son of the Brewer, got the boys all together and when the engine played the water over the Bank buildings he gave the Hip Hip Hurrah and then again Hip Hip Hurrah! The practice was always in the noon time. �Now came the premises of Messrs. Ford this was tenanted by Mr. Ormiston, Baker and Confectioner. There were two sons John and Ernest, also two or three daughters. John the eldest son was Sergt. in the Reepham Volunteers, they wore grey suits at that time. According to the grave stone on the Hackford cemetery it read Mrs. John Ormiston born March 8th 1855 Died June 18th 1883. They were regular attendants at St. Michael's Church. On Sunday mornings at 10.45 all the family could be seen going to church, Mr. Ormiston with tall silk hat and kid gloves, Mrs. Ormiston with her claret coloured silk dress. (She had some lovely curls.) The next house was occupied by Mr. Daverson (Davidson) the retired confectioner from the house occupied by the Ormiston family. Mr. Daverson had one daughter, she married John Redman Spencer. He farmed at Guestwick and died in the house now known as the Bircham Institute. Then next come the Brewery House with its beautiful Sun Dial. On the right hand side of the Brewery House was a Conservatory with a frontage 16 or 18 feet about 15 feet high. The house was occupied by Mr. William Bircham Jun. and his brother Francis Bircham. They kept a housekeeper Mrs. Ann Hazel and two other servants. They lived there many years and they both married from there. One was Mrs. Gillingwater, her husband was a farmer, Reepham Moor, the other was Mrs. Fred Self, she lived on the Ollands Road until she died. The boy known as Copperhold Jack was Walter Holt. He was the present Mrs. Ford's third brother. When he grew up he went to Canada. The following Mrs. Ford told me :- After Mr. F. Bircham had finished with the Times newspaper Walter Holt would fold up the paper and put it into the large black dog's mouth they kept. He would get hold of the dog's tail and take it to Mrs. Dalrymple who lived at the Moor House. She was Aunt to Mr. F. Bircham. In the Brewery House Yard against the Barber's Shop can be be seen an octagon tall shape roof, this is the cover over the Old Brewery Well. The well is 8 feet across it. I am told it is about 100 feet deep. The cover, I Henry E. Hawes did as the date prove, 1900. Mr. S. Bircham of 46 Parliament St., who wanted the oak to be of very old oak,so I told him about the old oak of Booton Windmill. He made arrangement for me to meet and we went and saw the old oak by going up a part of the Norwich Road through a gateway without the Miller's Knowledge. Mr. Bircham at once said Hawes, be down there in the morning and buy the lot at any price. Away I went in the morning, saw Charles Stackword and had the deal (you would be surprised what language he used when he made out what I wanted the oak for.) The weather vane, I had to use Mr. Bircham's initials S.B. entwined. The house against the well, Mr. S. Bircham had built for Mr. Scotten his wife and grown up daughter. Mr. Scotten was an old tenant of Mr. Bircham relations, who died at Thorpe near Norwich. I believe Mr. Scotten had to superintend and see to the making of gardens etc, that one can see today. When the Brewery was sold by auction on March the 26th 1879 the Picturesque Shrubbery and Plantation with Walks, Summer House, thickly planted with Evergreen and other shrubs and adorned with ornamental trees, this was bought by Dr. Perry who at once laid most of it down and let it in lots as allotments. Mr. Perry also bought several pieces inside the Brewery premises. Mr. Perry at once employed Mr. Thos. Blythe Builder Foulsham to take down the tall chimney shaft and other buildings. He built two cottages, one was tenanted by Mr. William Ford his first wife and family. The other was tenanted by Mr, Fred Gayford his wife and family. Mr. Perry had stabling made for Mr. William Dyball the horse trainer. Mr. Fred Howard the Builder had work shops, Timber yard etc. The Reepham Manual Fire Engine had also a home on the premises. All this Dr. Perry sold to Mr. Samuel Bircham. �Parish Magazine April 1979 A TRUE STORY (cont.) Next come the Barber's Shop (Swoish). Mrs. Robert Dyball, mother of the Dyball family, Horse breakers and trainer Thomas, William, George, and John. Mrs.D yball had two upstairs rooms which she let to the Reepham Drum and Fife Band. One evening a tea was provided for the Band and a few friends. Mr. William Bacon, a higgler by trade, made me a confession :I had a grey horse for my business, it would always pull up at public houses, if it saw a sign hanging out, so I bought a blind horse. This cured the job, and I have been a member of the temperance cause ever since. Next come Mr. Carman's shop. This was occupied by Mr. James Kirby Grocer and draper. After a time it was closed for about three or four months. Mr. Robert George employed Mr. George Howard the Builder, Norwich Road to refit the shop, new counters fittings etc. The next tenant was Mr. Alfred Roy, the father to the well known Wroxham grocers etc. Next come Mr. Hall's harness makers shop. The tenant was Mr. Prior. Next come the house now occupied by Mr. John Hall. The tenant was Mr. Woolmer watch and clock maker. Parish Magazine April 1979 A TRUE STORY (contd.) Mr. Woolmer wore a tall hat and black frock coat. Every night at about four o'clock you could see him on his way to the church to wind up the clock. One of the weights was made of iron the other was made of lead. Each was suspended on 15 or 16 feet of rope. They each worked up and down a long box. One day the ratchet of one of the weights got out of repair. The crank knocked the poor old man and hurt him. My mother with my help did the clock winding for a few months. I remember seeing one of the brass weights the date 1760. Next come Mr. Purdy's office. This was used as Reepham Reading Rooms. Mr. Farrow's door was the entrance, the window was a large pair of sashes and frames same size as the one above. Mrs. Hannah Bell was the caretaker, she lived down in the basement, and slept in the top storey. Francis Bircham Esq's office was on the next storey. The Reading Room had a curtain partition. The backside of the partition was used by young men playing on a billiard table, the front side was used by Newspaper Readers smoking their long clay pipes. Every quarter Mrs. Bell would hunt up the eighteen pennys contribution. One day I went to meet Mr. Sewell, a gentleman living at Buxton, who wanted a talk about making the Reading Room into a Bank. He soon got Mr. Edward Boardman of Norwich at work,and prepared the plans for me to fit up same as the bank. The window and door etc. now used by Messrs. Purdy. Mr. Owen was Bank Manager. Next come Barclay's Bank. This was used as a Chemist Shop. The door on the South side was similar to the door used by Mr. Farrow on the East side. That door was used as the chemist's house door, also the door was used for Gurney's Bank. The entrance to the Chemist's shop, Mr. Johnson Cripps. The chemist had an apprentice, Mr. George Fowler, a tall young man. The chemist and his wife did all the working of the Bank, also the Chemist shop. They took it by turns. Next come Penton's house, the Wool shop and part of Messrs. Gibbs shop. Mr. Heading had the above as a draper's shop. After that Mr. Gibbs let the house now occupied by Mrs. Penton to Mr. Morgan who carried on as Monumental Mason. The remainder I fitted up for the National Provincial Bank of England. They had it about three years. �Next come Mr. Edward Gibbs & Son, Ironmongers. This was carried on by Mr. William George, he had two men in the shop, Arthur Crisp and Mr. Millet. Mr. George had some very funny ideas, he had his shop windows full of skates at Reepham fair. The fair was the last day of June. He kept an iron grey colour pony which my Grandfather Hawes used to drive to Norwich, or North Elmham to bring stuff for the shop sometime I went with him. Parish Magazine August 1979 A TRUE STORY (continued) At Mr. George's death, Mr. Stephen Leeds took over the business, he had it about three years, and then Mr. Edward Gibbs took over the business. Next come Mr. Grief's shop. This was a harness makers shop carried on by Mr. Lawson, he had an apprentice who is still alive, Mr. William Alford retired postman. Just up the road the shop occupied by Mr. Grief was a Cabinet Makers Business carried on by Mr. William Griggs. He also smoked meat. His workshop was on the first floor. Today can be seen his pair of doors which opened into the shop. Across the road Mrs. Curtis shop also Plumes hair dressers shop. It's best for me to include the Miss Pask's shop also. All the above belonged to Mr. David Wright. There were three daughters, Celia, Kate and Polly. Polly when she was about eighteen went as Bar Maid at the Duke's Palace Hotel Norwich. The five sons were George John Robert and Peter. The Painter's shop was a very quaint place it had a pair of ledge doors facing the Towns End Plain. The walls were stone and bricks about 2 feet 6 inches high. The remainder of the wall was clay. The window had panes of glass about nine inches square. The roof was covered in with corrugated iron. Adjoining the painter's shop was a shop carried on by Celia and Kate they sold wool and fancy goods. The remainder of the building was the living department. Before Pask's shop was put up it was a nice patch of grass railed in with iron railing about four feet high and a wide gate. The gate was wide enough for a horse and cart to pass through. There was the road direction post. On Reepham fair day, the last day of June, donkeys, ponies and a few horses were tethered to the iron railing as far as the old pound (the pound was a square brick building with no roof, about 8 or 9 feet square. This stood opposite Mrs. Curtis living house pound road.) George and his sister Kate went to Foulsham, hired a house and building place and carried on business as a painter and glazier. The competition being keen he soon returned home to Reepham and opened up the old painter's shop as an ironmonger's shop. Next come the cement plain and direction post on the Towns End corner during the Sun Inn alterations. Messrs. Steward and Patterson gave this piece to the road, it formerly was stables etc. Next come the Sun Inn, this was a quaint public house with a thatch roof, please notice the chimneys now standing. The alterations to pub was carried out by Mr. William Watts, Builder, of Cawston, Mrs. Ann Boardman was the tenant. Mr. Arthur Crisp married the daughter and after a time took Cromer White Horse and brought up a large family. Next comes Mrs. Jewell. This was occupied by Mr. Spruell (?) (Spurrell). He lived a quiet life, his wife was Sarah, sister to the Ironmonger opposite, William George. Parish Magazine October 1979 A TRUE STORY (continued) Next comes Mr. K. Chapman. This was occupied by Mr. Skillings. He did a little printing, his wife kept a school for girls. �Next comes the fish shop. This was occupied by William Hannant. He carried on business as a corn chandler, also sold coal by the hundred weights (at 1/- per hundred weight). He had two sons, William and Joe (?). Mr. Hannant was very friendly with Mr. Glister of Dalle (Salle). He was farm bailiff to the Jodrells. These two went to Norwich to see Madame Card's manager. Madame Card was in Norwich a week Glister paid £25 down. Hannant at once saw Brewer Bircham so he could have the Sun Barn. Bircham was delighted. He had the Barn cleared out, distempered the walls, and arches painted on the walls. This can be seen today. The barn was named Gothic Hall. The two men I remembered she melodized (mesmerized?) was George Fowler and Harry Dye. Fowler nursed and fed a doll all the evening. Harry Dye sang a song he never learnt. Next comes the house next door. This was occupied by Miss Sands, a middle aged lady, she kept the Post Office and she kept two clerks, Miss Eliza Rudd (D. Chapman's Aunt), and John Hill. There was no entering the Post Office. There was a small door in the wall between the door and the window. Customers gave a tap on the small door and waited outside to be waited on. The next comes Mrs. Coe's boot and shoe shop, the Club room above, the cart shed in the King's Arms etc. This was a house occupied by Tailor Rudd, D. Chapman's grandfather. I have been there and had tea more than once. The next comes the King's Arms. This was occupied by Mr.Dickerson he had a large family. I have played with them up in their orchard. This orchard was the present Messrs. Irelands sale ground. Now come the Bircham Institute. Formerly the Rev. E. Holley lived there. He was a decent size property owner. He owned Hardiment's shop. He had a path in the church yard along Riches living room windows to a door leading into his rectory grounds, three cottages and Messrs. Moy's work shop, also Mrs. Symonds' house and premises. Mrs. Symonds' lot was a barn, stables and coach house. The Rev. Holley had a carriage and a pair of horses. He kept a gardener and coachman, also three servants in the house. He kept a curate, the Rev. James. He lived at Whitwell Street. After his death his wife did not live very long. Before she died her wish was that I should be one of her 6 bearers. As Mr. Robert Keeler who lived in the shop and house now occupied by Mrs. Beaver Norwich Road always did all first class undertaking, I had to go down to his for my rig up. I was then in my teens. The cloak was a few inches too long, so I had to take the rig up to my grandfathers Mr. James Hawes who was a tailor. This is the rig up tall hat with a silk band, cape, long cloak, and black gloves. Mrs. Holley was buried at Aylsham Burgh (grave very watery). When we come home I had a present given to me by Mr. Keeler, a golden sovereign. Parish Magazine November 1979 A TRUE STORY (continued) The shop now occupied by Hardiments was occupied by Mr. Hart. I slightly remember him. Then come Charles Barnes. He had two apprentices. They lodged with my grandmother Hawes. Charles Barnes had high ideas. He soon got himself into the Bankruptcy Court. A large Marquee was erected in the market place and all his goods and shackles were sold by auction. This gave Mr. A. Roy a chance to move out of Carmans shop into the one recently occupied by Charles Barnes. The oldest Miss Roy opened up a school for girls. The entrance to the same was by the side door facing the post office. Mr. & Mrs. Eglington parents of Sewell Eglington Sen. now retired farmer, Pettywell Farm Hackford, was sent there to school. They Put Me Among The Girls. Next come Mr. Riches' shop. This was occupied by Mr. John Gray who brought up a decent family. Mr. Gray was noted for his tobacco and tea. He had a Mr. Tomas Wajer (?Wyer?Whur?) who did most of taking out the goods. Mr. John Gray did a good liquor trade. �Next come the small shop against the church yard. This was occupied by Mr. W.A. Pask the well known tailor. He brought up a large family there he had a splendid workshop up at the back for his workman. Now the iron fencing on the plain. This was put there by Mrs. Bircham the Brewer. The enclosure is kept clean by Miss Ann Bircham up to this day. I have been told there was stocks fixed there many years ago. Now come St. Michael's Church. On the North side there is a good epigraph midway between the Church and the road wall. There is an iron tablet on the south side of the tower to Doctor Williams of Glamorganshire he lived in the Bircham Institute house. He went to a dinner party at Booton Hall on horse back. On coming home through the ford at Booton he fell and broke his neck, I have years ago taken the dates on the tablet and the stone on Booton bridge and they both agree. In the Church yard on the south side there are the remains of Hackford Church, Mr. H. C. Peck formerly of Reepham Now living at 50 Avondale Road, Gorleston on Sea, Norfolk has a good sketch of same. In a letter he wrote to me about two years ago, he said he would give the sketch to some one in Reepham. My father was parish clerk. I copied this from his grave stone :"Thomas Hawes Died March 1911 aged 77 years Clerk to this parish 49 years" Before we new seated the church the seating accommodation was all box shape pews - most of them had the names painted on the doors which used the pews. Reepham St. Mary church come next. My grandfather Job Henry Watson was clerk fourteen years. I remember a gallery at the west end, I believe the choir used the gallery, Miss Elizabeth Neal played the harmonium, Rev. Wilkinson was the Rector for many years. St. Mary's Church had some good donors in my recollection S. Bircham Esq of 46 Parliament Street London gave the organ. The Jodrell family of Salle Hall and the Rev. C. Marsh (rector of Salle church) could not agree, so the Jodrells attended Reepham Church. His tablet can be seen in the Chancel. The fine East Window bears the name of Richard Jodrell on it. The oak roof with lead was done by Messrs. Chapman and Son Builder Hanworth at the expense of Jodrell. I remember the Jodrells coming to Church Mr. Clements driving the pair of horses and phaeton. A person standing on the road against the south east corner of St. Mary's church and walk towards the Duke of York pub thirty walking paces then stop. You will stand in three parishes Reepham, Whitwell and Hackford. Then turn yourself half to the left you will be looking at the archway which formerly led to the old Rectory, next come the large house occupied by Mr. Jarvis. This was formerly Reepham Rectory. Parish Magazine January1980 A TRUE STORY (conclusion) Reepham Rectory was occupied by the Rev. M.M.U. Wilkinson. He had three daughters two of them are still alive. The Rectory was built by a Lincolnshire firm so I have been told. Mr. James Rudd who worked on the Rectory and worked for me afterwards. Rev. Wilkinson came here as a bachelor. �Next come the Britons house and chemist shop. This was formerly occupied by Mrs. Hannah Bircham she had four sons, Thomas Herbert Arthur and Jesse, and I believe two daughters one was married to Mr. Curson lawyer's manager in King's Lynn. The other married Mr. Richmond who lived in Booton Hall. Mrs. Bircham carried on the Chemistry many years, she also sold newspapers. I when a boy about seven years old called for my grandfather's Norfolk News to take to Reepham Moor. Her son Jesse took over the Chemist shop etc. at her death. Jesse practically rebuilt the house and shop. I did all the alterations etc. all the mahogany shop fittings, counter etc. All the time my men and myself was there, my men had light refreshment at lunch time, one week at the George & Dragon, next week the Duke of York. I myself had mine with Jesse and his housekeeper, Mrs. Howell, a drop of port and sponge cake. Jesse's portrait can be seen in the Band Hall Reepham. I must mention a few words respecting the Band Hall. Jesse built the Band Hall for a Sunday School with his friend Mr. John Walker. Walker found brains, Jesse found cash. I sold him the site for seventy pounds. Now come Messrs. Laugs house (Laine? Lang? Large?), shop and garden. Harvey Munford who lived in the George and Dragon his eldest daughter had the whole of the garden for a studio. This had glass sides & roof and on the front in large letters EAST ANGLIAN PHOTOGRAPH COMPANY. She had a Mr.Vivian who travelled the country with her. The shop and house was occupied by Mrs. Loades, tailor Pask's Aunt. She was housekeeper to Pork Springall a retired builder. In the shop she sold lime and whiting. Next come Woodcock's Jewellery shop. This was used by Mr. Robert Keeler as a salt store. He sold by wholesale blocks of salt about 16 or 18 inches long and about 6 or 7 square. Next come Mrs. Beavers. Mr. Beaver used the shop for grocery, furniture etc. I put this shop front in for him, this was formerly owned by Mr. Robert Keeler. Next come Mr. Hardiment's shop. This was two houses. One was owned by Miss Breeze. The other was occupied by Mrs. Timbers. She had a shop and sold women's boots only. She had a son, his name was Jeremiah. When he came home from abroad with his wife and family they lived in Kerdistone Old Hall. I do not remember whether he had any of the farm. He had a son with a gunpowdered face. He went as a clerk with Messrs. Ireland. The two houses, Miss Breeze and Mrs.Timbers, was bought by Mr. John Wright the painter. I altered them for him for his eldest daughter who married John Gray the boot maker. Next come Mrs. Coe's house and the cottage adjoining. Mrs. Coe's house was occupied by Mr. James Fish Boot and Shoe Maker. He kept 3 or 4 workmen at the back. The cottage was occupied by Mr. Boon who was Mr. James Fish's foreman. Next come Sidney Fenn's house. This was occupied by Mr. Dick Rodham. He kept a housekeeper, a Mrs. Cletheroe. Mr. Dick Rodham had a bosom friend, his name was William George the Ironmonger. They had a perpenetive (propensity?) for roaming about the place visiting houses such as The Kings Arms, The Sun, The Greyhound, The Lord Nelson, The Swan, The Lamb, Whitwell Star, The Duke Of York, The Farriers Arms, The George & Dragon The Black Lion, The Crown and Booton Kings Head. The Reepham none such would be on the look out for these two gentlemen. When Dick died he his property he left to his house keeper Mrs. Clitheroe and his niece Priscilla Parnell. This property has been sold during the last few days, Booton Kings Head, no later than May 30th 1953. � Text - printed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A True Story by Henry Edward Hawes Description An account of the resource 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. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1870s Market Place, Reepham Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2105281815 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 9pp A4 typescript Local History [File 10, Archive Box 110, Item 119] Families & Businesses [File 6] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society RS Database 658 Hawes https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/81300e034f12e7d18e6c1bb543745e0c.pdf a3a79e731e21663416280f8e57481b82 PDF Text Text Albert Valentine King Coat Label GB/REE/2509071050 � Artefact-digital A digital image specifically made to record the appearance of an artefact. This is, in fact, a 'Photograph-digital' but should be categorised separately because the image was made as a substitute for the artefact itself. This will normally only be used for an artefact that is not physically in the Archive. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A. V. King Coat Label Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2509071050 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital Families & Businesses [File 6] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930s Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1930s Description An account of the resource Label from a coat received in July 2024 by the Charity Shop in the Bircham Centre. Albert Valentine King was a tailor whose business operated from the premises that now contains Reepham Post Office. In 1939 his widow Katherine King was still running the draper's and outfitters shop with her son William. The business was later taken over by Henry Pratt. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bircham Centre Charity Shop King tailor https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/5c0c3f5941df825334c2365288e4806c.pdf c8f4eb55be0bdd80239ddba2b4f75d05 PDF Text Text Abbs Garage Frontage showing petrol pumps Side view looking towards School Road GB/REE/2509191500 � https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/cedcc9ea7bebf244984f9d0e8c092aaa.pdf 5e5aa6aec5b6e8fb75307c8a5b6eefb9 PDF Text Text Soames Edward Abbs (1885-1973) GB/REE/2509191500 Abbs Soames Edward Abbs was born in 1885 and began his working life as a general labourer and later a butcher in Dereham. By 1921 he was a motor engineer working John White's garage on School Road. That site eventually became a part of the Massey & Bridges company. In 1939 Squire Abbs was living at Bevan House on Dereham Road with his wife Alice and grandchildren Sheila & Daphne Barrow. They were the daughters of Stella, the Abbs' eldest daughter. Their second daughter Edna married Reginald Seals who worked at Abbs Garage. Soames died in 1973 and is buried in the Whitwell Road cemetery. This clipping appeared in the London Evening Standard on Tuesday, 9 Jan 1973. As yet no reference to Soames' patent has been found. Photographs of Squire Abbs courtesy of Roger Wyand �� Photograph-digital Any photograph for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The photograph can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a photograph owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Abbs Garage 2015 Description An account of the resource Folder of over 40 photographs taken before the garage closed in 2016. Two exterior views shown here. Brief biography of Squire Abbs with two images. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2015 Reepham Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2509191500 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital Families & Businesses [File 6, Archive Box 106] 2015 Abbs garage School Road https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/6a4e6822e52812829016184a086d5dd3.pdf 6765375d668d4b4be5e812aaaadc938f PDF Text Text Reepham Archive Item Record IDENTIFIER (Reference Code) TITLE (Title) GB/REE/1512201423 CREATOR (Name of Creator) Not known DATE (Date(s)) ITEM TYPE 1880 FORMAT (Extent & medium of the item) Paper, 413mm x 253mm COVERAGE (Scope and content) 1880, Hackford TAGS (Finding Aids) Holley, Leamon, Hackford, 1880 Notes Identifier: Title: Creator: Date: Format: Coverage: Tags: Manor of Hackford Hall, Absolute surrender: Miss E A Holley and W H Holley Esq to Mr Arthur Leamon Text - Handwritten Large Legal Documents Always use the format: yymmddhhminmin Use existing title. 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When complete, add identifier to item and place form ready for data input. �Date 4 1880 Manor of Hackford Hall Miss E A Holley and W H Holley Esq to Mr Arthur Leamon copy Draft Absolute Surrender examined with original S Foster 22 Oct 1880 Manor of Hackford Hall Whereas by Statutory proceedings taken out of Court for this Manor on the 13th day of May 1880 Eliza Anne Holley 1CNR of Hackford next Reepham in the County of Norfolk but now of Brandeston in the same County & Windham Hunt Holley of Oakhampton in the County of Devon Esq were after the death & under or by virtue of the Will & a Codicil thereto of Edward Holley late of Hackford next Reepham 1CNR Clerk formerly a Copyhold tenant of this Manor duly admitted tenants to the Copyhold hereditas & previous holder of this Manor of which the said Edwd Holley died seised being (inter alia) the hereditas 1CNR surrendered. To hold to them the E A Holley & W H Holley their heirs exors & admon upon the trusts & according to the form & effect of the 2nd Will & Codicil of the Edwd Holley deced at the Will of the Lord & according to the custom of the Manor And whereas the Testator by the Codicil to the Will 1CNR & empowered the E A Holley & W H Holley to make sale & dispose of all or any part of the Real Estate of the Testator both freehold and copyhold (except the dwellinghouse occupied by him which he had given to his wife for her life and which was not to be sold until after her death, And the Testator declared that the receipt of the Trustees should be a good & sufficient discharge to any purchase or other person paying any money under any of the trusts therein contained And whereas the E A Holley & W H Holley lately contracted & agreed with Arthur Leamon of Whitwell Hall in the Coy of Norfolk Gentleman for the absolute sale to him of the hereditas & premises hereinafter mentioned at the price of £285. Now be it rememd that on the respective days mentd in the several captions hereunder written the said E A Holley & W H Holley came before us the several persons who have signed our respective names to such captions being (----) Deputy Stewards of the Manor for this turn and purpose only duly authorised in pursuance of a Covenant for that purpose contained in a certain Indenture or Deed of Covenant bearing date the (blank) day of (blank) 1880 made between the E A Holley & W H Holley of the one part & the said Arthur Leamon of the other part & in common of the sum of £285 sterling the purchase money for the Copyhold hereditas hereinafter mentioned to be surrendered the payment whereof is acknowledged by the Indenture & the receipt for the same endowed thereon They the E A Holley & W H Holley Did out of Court Surrender out of their & each of their hands into the hands of the Lord of the Manor by the hands of the respective Deputy Stewards of the Manor by the 1CNR �according to the custom of the Manor. All those 10 perches of land be the same more or less with a messuage in 3 1CNR in which Martin Barrett John Gray & William Bishop formerly dwelt & a Blacksmiths Shop. 1CNR & other buildings standing & being thereon many years once in the occupation of Luke Parfield afterwards of Seymour Jewell & once of the Martin Barrett situate lying & being in Hackford next Reepham and next the Queens Highway called the Back Street towds the South & East next buildings & premises belonging to the parish of Hackford next Reepham also many years since occupied as a Workhouse towards the north & land & premises formerly belonging to Peter 5CNR Williams deed late of the Edward Holley deed & now of the same A. Leamon towards the West with the rights, liberties & appurtenances thereto belonging as the same are now in the occupation of Samuel King & his under tenant. To which premises the Edward Holley deed was admitted tenant at a Court held for the said Manor on the 31st day of Decm 1838 under a Bargain & Sale from the Exors of Luke Parfield deced And the revon & revons, remainder & remainders of the said surrendered hereditas & premises. And all the Estate right, title and interest whatsoever of them the said E A Holley & W H Holley of in to or out of the said hereditament and premises. To the of the said Arthur Leamon his heirs and assigns for ever absolutely according to custom of the said Manor. This Surrender was passed by the above named Eliza Anna Holley & taken & accepted by me on the (blank) day of (blank) 1880. Deputy Steward as a paid In the presence of (blank) This Surrender was passed by the above named Windham Hunt Holley & taken & accepted by me on the (blank) day of (blank) 1880. Deputy Steward as a paid In the presence of (blank) ������ Text-handwritten Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1512201423 Title A name given to the resource Absolute surrender of Hackford Hall Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1880 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Paper 413 x 253mm Land, Property & Titles [File 8] Transcriptions [File 19] Large Documents Box Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1880 Hackford Hall Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society Description An account of the resource Absolute surrender of Hackford Hall by Eliza Ann Holley and Windham Hunt Holley Esq to Arthur Leamon. Transcription followed by copy of document. Tr. Ref. No. SH_001_INDE 1880s Hackford Hall Holley Leamon https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/e34fc6edacae2e6b3241487862cc4feb.jpg d28469953e3ffd0caea315558f4a45de Photograph-printed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ada Frost's at Towns End Corner Description An account of the resource Two ladies standing on the steps of Ada Frost's grocery shop on the NW corner of the crossroads. Signs proclaim bicycles, jams, tea, jellies, motor spirit; and there's a sundial high on the wall. The two ladies are presumed to be Ada and her daughter Doris. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930s (est) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1609131620 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource B&W photograph 165 x 240mm Streets & Buildings [File 17, Archive Box 117] Families & Businesses/Frost [File 6] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society RS Database 282 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Towns End, Reepham Frost shop Towns End