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Copy of sepia photograph in postcard format. Shops in view are Miller, H.C.Peck, & Wallace King. Marjorie Gibbs is the young woman with a camera.

Middlesex Regiment while stationed at Whitwell Hall, on parade with bicycles in Reepham Market Place.Miss K Hall loaned this image to the Reepham Society to copy & in 2020 the original postcard was donated to the Reepham Archive. On the reverse…

Reepham Fire Brigade attending a fire at a row of cottages near Stinton Hall, Salle.

Sidney (Togo) Eglington in right foreground.

Firemen present include:Harold Reeve, Reggie Seals, Bob Smith, Bob Hindry, L.J. Stearman and H.W. Voutt.

12 men with radios, 2 with weapons
Includes Brian Hardiment (4th from right in back row)

Back Row L to R:- Special Constables Sidney Morley, Vivien Woodhouse , Wennington, Edward HardimentFront Row L to R:-Special Constable HemmantWar Reserve Constable ShawPolice Constable Andrews, Inspector Joseph HearnPolice Constable Robert…

The Dial House, Reepham Market Place. The Well Head was built in 1900 and restored in 1996.Participants L to R :-Jan HenryBernard DyePaul White, June BettsStuart Beadle, Iain Wilson (Manager)Christine Galley (Town Clerk)

George Harrison on the left & E T Ruffles on the right

Band members are wearing the early uniform with self-coloured cording embroidered on the front & toggle fastenings.

This photograph was originally published as a postcard by H E Tansley, a photographer in Sheringham & Cromer, to celebrate the band's success at the Crystal Palace Championships in 1936. In a later reproduction the word 'Temperance' was removed.

Possibly pre WWI. Some of the uniforms are unusual but all have badges/insignia related to the Salvation Army.

At the Aldeburgh Festival in 1953Players include : Back row :- Pamela Barsted, Ray PlattenMiddle row :- Bernie Barsted, ?, Margaret MorganHazel Fowke , Nancy Woods, George Harrison, Imogen Holst, Tommy Ruffles Front row :- Godfrey Barsted, Jack…

Pamela Barsted joined the band in 1940, aged 15. Four band members are in cadet uniforms and two younger members have their school caps on. Older members George Harrison and George Cocking are by the pole at the back. Derek Woods is next to Pamela…

Yarmouth Marina, now demolished

Queen Mary, Ladies-in-Waiting & Members of the Ladies Committee at the concert in the Band Hall by Reepham Junior Band.

Sitting at the back
Ladies Committee Members L to R :-
Mrs Cocking, Mrs Voutts, Mrs Ruffles,
Mrs Ransome, Mrs Connie…

The girls behind the rail wearing hats include Florrie Chipperfield, born 1 Dec 1900 and Daisy Chipperfield born about 1906.

Sample box to carry seeds to establish quality of a crop. The screw top is decorated with 4 incised circles and some simple black paint patterns. It contains cereal seeds.
Maker, owner and period not known.

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Hand made wooden sway or brace with brass fittings, pre-cursor of the power drill

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Metal hand held tin opener in the form of a bull's head with long back and curved tail.

The short vertical spike rising from the head was intended to pierce a hole in the lid of a can, and the other was a cutting blade for see-sawing round the…

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