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Gibbs Ironmongers expanded and ivy covered + crowds at Towns End. Dixon's shop on corner across Station Road advertising "Triumph Cycles & Motors".On reverse :Darcy Collyer, Solicitor, in pith helmet"taken the first year of the great war. Welsh…

Eglington & Gooch's works existed on the site of the current Spar shop in Ollands Road employing a variety of skilled workmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, wheelwrights and farriers.

The view of the church towers in the background suggests that this is the workyard on the site of the current Spar shop and the yard behind it. Sidney Eglington is on the left, the older man in the three-piece suit may be Robert Parker Gooch who died…

Sepia postcard of Eglington & Gooch's machine works with a large assortment of agricultural equipment. The work yard based in the area of Malthouse Yard and the site of the Spar supermarket. The name on the right-hand shed is McCormick Harvesting…

Hard backed album marked "Jubilee 1977, List of Children receiving Crown Coins. Each sheet records 15 children, mostly in alphabetical order, who signed by hand or by finger print for their coin. One original 5/- coin remains with the album together…

Newspaper photograph of Reepham's Jubilee Queen, Mary Shepherd, on the Town Hall steps after the children's Jubilee party.

Embroidered Red Cross Badge in a gold frame. The badge was worked and given to Miss Evelyn Gibbs by one of the wounded soldiers during the First World War. Evelyn served as Assistant Commandant in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) in the Hackford…

Eva Mabel Leonard (1896-1977)

Studio portrait taken about 1918

Eva's husband was Reginald Fisher, youngest son of George Ephraim Fisher. George ran the grocery an drapery business from the premises that was once Motts Pharmacy, now the…

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Portrait photograph of Miss Evelyn Gibbs inscribed 'daughter of Mr. Edward Gibbs, Market Place, Reepham'.

During World War I Miss Gibbs served as the Assistant Commandant in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) of Hackford Military Hospital ,…

Towns End Corner looking toward Dereham Road. Crowd of people including some on flat roof of Pask's shop (Civil & Military High Class Tailor). Gospel Room on left beyond rounded corner wall.

Evidence gathered to prove that Hannah Ann Penny was the blood sister of Thomas Hunt, a sailor who died whilst serving on the ship 'Magicienne'.

Norfolk Research Committee : Excavation and Fieldwork to be carried out at Whitwell Hall on Saturday 31 March and Sunday 1 April - year tbc
This was part of a study course run by Chris Barringer and David Yaxley. These courses created a great…

Photocopies of entries from a book on hearth taxes for towns in Eynsford Hundred including the three parishes of Hackford, Reepham with Kerdiston & Whitwell. Familiar names appear, e.g. Dack, Coxfer, Gallant, Breese etc.
No indication of source.

Large crowd watching a fairground/circus organ on a carriage being pulled by 4 horses to Station Road from Towns End Corner.J.Dixon runs the corner shop.On the reverse of the photograph:Probably 1907, circus organ on its way to being set up in Sale…

View towards Reepham on the Cawston Road showing Fairway Garage and the water tower that stood near the junction with Orchard Lane.





Group photograph of 17 band members at an outdoor event. Probably Fakenham Band.
Tommy Ruffles Back Row, 2nd from right

Photocopy of newspaper advertisement placed by Messrs Irelands in a local paper concerning a sale to be held at the King's Arms Hotel on 2 October 1901. Lot 1 Rookery Farm with 177 acres of farmland and other buildings. Lot 2 Pettiwell Farm with…

Identification of some of the families who lived on Salle Street in the 1800s, particularly Joseph Leeds, landlord of the White Horse.

Items collected by Sally Aitcheson. Some are identified as photographs from a local newspaper. All are concerned with farming & rural history, some relating to Kerdiston. They are stuck on blue sugar paper & still have their original titles.

The…

Announcement in the Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser dated 27 February 1903 of the forthcoming marriage of Mr. F. R. S. Bircham and Miss Agnes Bruce.

Transcribed & edited report from the Eastern Daily Press of the wedding of Mr. Francis Bircham…
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