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A pub crawl through history by Joyce Cox describing Reepham public houses.

Mary Lovick was summoned on the information of Arthur Charles Spinks of Scarning (an egg collector for Messrs Sainsbury), for selling eggs not of the quality demanded by the purchaser.

Group of fire fighters on their engine, all wearing masks.
Engine registration number ME 2513
Reepham firemen in masks at Salle Corner (the junction of Cawston Road and the road leading to Heydon).

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Queue outside Edward Gibbs & Son waiting to buy the first fireworks after World War II. 2 November 1946.

Two images of the first prize-giving at the newly-named Reepham High School. The headmaster Mr. E. Riddle Smith giving his address to the pupils & staff.

Short observational report with photographs by Kate Nightingale about the architectural history of The Foldgate.

Postcard of Forest School, Whitwell with porch and half the house covered with ivy and with low brick wall in the foreground.

FSC (Forest School Camps) was originally formed in 1948 by a group of former students and teachers from a radical…

Appears to be front cover of Forest School brochure, undated, showing children taking part in various outdoor activities.

Wesley Piercy's mother Lucy had two sisters, Frances and Elsie.

Frances Mary Piercy(1886-1969) - seated
Frances was the eldest child of Thomas Piercy and his wife Mary Besford Timbers. She worked as a domestic servant until she married William J…

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Photograph of Frank Leiper and Ethel Keeley, their marriage certificate (1918) and her VAD card. Ethel Keeley was the VAD night nurse at Reepham Hospital during WWI. She gives this as her address on their marriage certificate. Frank was wounded and…

Details of the memorial service held in March 1946 for Frank Brookes Walker, only son of John Plane Walker. John worked for Wallace King when it came to Reepham & later had his own store in the old Maltings at the corner of Back Street & Station…

B&W card of Towns End from South looking at shop on NW corner with Fred J Gibbs shop (Watchmaker/Tobacconist) on near left. No garage yet next to corner shop (Dixon's).On the reverse: Demolished 1936Second image is a sepia photograph wih text.

L. S. Frost General Stores on Station Road built in 1935. Mrs Lilian Frost in the doorway. Her mother-in-law Ada Frost ran the original shop on Towns End Corner.
Ada Frost died in 1957.
Photograph taken after decimalisation in 1971.

Article describing the winding up of the Collison Bros building business in Reepham.

From an article published in the Reepham Society Newsletter, Summer 1988

Sign declares "G. Fisher Grocer Draper and Outfitter"
Label on the back says the shop gave its name to Fisher's Alley. A second annotation says "G. Fisher mentioned in 1896 Kelly's Directory"

Taken before 1903 when the roof-line of Hall's, the…

G Fisher, Grocer, Draper and Outfitter, Market Place, Reepham, dated before 1903, with neighbouring saddler's shop.
This is an enhanced copy of GB/REE/1607301414 without the broken glass. It is also a wider view showing the roofline of the saddlers…

Photocopy of a newspaper cutting reporting on a successful Garden Fete held in the grounds of Dr. Perry's home. Boys from Watt's Naval Home performed during the afternoon, a fine tea was provided by local ladies and the evening entertainment was…

Programme for Reepham Garden Fete held on Thursday, July 16, 1914, by kind permission, in the grounds of E.V. Perry, Esquire.

Photograph of Miss Ann Gibbs presenting a bouquet of flowers to Mrs Tom Cook of Sennowe Park who opened the Fete.Later Ann became Mrs Ann Dickinson.
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