After the suicide of his father Robert, Philip Leamon and his brother Arthur took over the farming and tannery business. Philip soon got into debt leading to bankruptcy which resulted in the sale of the Whitwell Hall Estate.
Postcard of Dereham Road before surfacing and pavements. Wallace King boards can be seen on Hackford House. Telegraph pole indicates the presence of the telephone.Further copy in Norfolk Heritage Explorations - REEP48.
Dereham Road looking towards the Market Place with the Wallace King sign over the property now (2022) know as the Bircham Centre. Photograph taken around 1919.
Full size image shows a white pole near the entrance gate to the Kings Arms Bowing…
Looking downhill with Eynsford House hedge on left. No tarmac, no footway. Primitive Methodist Chapel in original state. Bircham centre in distance occupied by Wallace King's furniture stores. Curved cutaway corner on building on SE corner.
Research notes from Pigot's 1830 and White's 1845 Directories, 1851 Census Returns and Harry Hawes' recollections in 1953 on schooling in and around Reepham.
Aerial & wide angle images of Reepham town centre, focusing on the Dial House development in 2015. 12 images prepared for use in The Dial brochure.
Two examples given here from January & April 2015.
Poster to advertise the dinner, church parade, Friendly Societies' Demonstration, concert by Reepham Town Prize Silver Band and Church Service held on 5 and 6 August 1933.
Manorial records of local parishes, land ownership, details of livestock, ploughs, villeins, serfs etc. Re-transcribed from earlier photocopied transcriptions. Also includes but not digitised :- 4pp A4 handwritten notes of information2pp older…
Two postcards showing the communicating door between St. Michaels and St. Mary's churches, one view from St. Michael's vestry and the other looking from St. Mary's.
Both stamped 'Reepham Society' on the reverse.
Notes from George Kett about the writer who lived in Reepham in the 1920s. Portrait & title page from Robert Standish's biography shown here. More information in RS Magazine 1993.