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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.
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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.Mission Room on far leftOn the reverse of the photograph:Probably 1907, circus organ on its way to…

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…

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.
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