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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. The second image shows some of the fittings from the original shop which were…

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.

View of Reepham town centre taken in the summer of 1994.

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Geoff Deal in his vegetable and fruit shop, Meloncaulie Rose. The shop was an institution in the Market Place for thirty years from the early 1990s to 2019

Conversion of the old George and Dragon Public House to two dwellings, carried on at the same time as the re-development of Malthouse Yard.

Newspaper cutting from The Eastern Daily Press dated 15 August 1979 recording the Thanksgiving service for late Mr. G.H. Anderson held at St. Mary's Reepham. Mr. Anderson lived at Candle Court, Church Street, Reepham.

Studio photograph of George Mason (1890-1959), probably taken when he enlisted during WWI.
In the 1920s George worked as a horseman at Eades Mill Farm for R. B. Howes. George married Lucy Piercy in 1923. In 1939 they were living in the Birchams…

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Dwelling house with sign board proclaiming G. Self Plumber & Decorator
Paperhanger Glazier
Pumps fixed & repaired

An article recording the life of George Reeve, 1890-1984

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An account of the life and businesses of George William Reeve, 1890-1984

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At 6.38 p.m. every weekday the 6.05 from Wroxham and the 6.05 from Dereham met briefly at Reepham Station. Used in RS Magazine 1991.

Crowded giant marquee at Sennowe Park (the home of Sir Thomas Cook, at one time president of the EABBA) in the early 1930s. Probably one of the early East Anglian Brass Band Association's Contests.

Two images of Edward Gibbs and Son's cartridges. In the 1993 Reepham Society Magazine (page 4) it is recorded "in the yard was a gunpowder magazine for cartridges were made here. A hundred cases were set up in a frame, filled with powder, shot and…

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Edward & Emma Gibbs with their three children Evelyn, Edward (Ned) and Marjorie. The second image, taken at a later date, is of Marjorie Gibbs with her pet rabbits, probably taken in the garden at The Laurels, the Gibbs family home on Dereham Road,…

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