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Samuel Bircham with the Wood Pigeon and Peewit Patrols and their leaders outside Hackford House. Amy Rump is the 'girl scout' on the horse.

Annotated copy included.

Original postcard of large group of soldiers and nurses in the grounds of Hackford House during WWI with the tower of St. Michael's Church in the background. Many men are wearing the blue uniform of wounded soldiers.

List of landowners in alphabetical order, with occupiers, tithe numbers, land names & land usage. Earliest list of copies from tithe apportionment documents, probably made by Tony Ivins.Relates to Item “Hackford Tithe Apportionments”.First page…

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Notice of a public meeting to be held on 25 October 1929 at 8 pm in the Parish Hall.
The meeting was called to ascertain whether it was the wish of the Parish Meeting that Aylsham District Council should expend £132.10s.0d. in repairing Hackford…

Group of children taken outside the school gates in School Road, Reepham.

Copies of Hackford Apportionments Lists from Norfolk Record Office. Landowner names listed in alphabetical order beginning with William Bircham. Beginning of list shown here with portion of related map showing 206-The Ollands Estate.These records…

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A page of sample extracts from a complete digital copy of Hackford next Reepham tithe map & apportionments. The document was begun in 1844. Areas of land on the map are numbered and a list of landowners shows the land they owned & the names…

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Hall's Saddlers shop in Reepham Market Place.
From L to R :-
Mr John Ebenezer Hall, Bertie Hall (son), travelling tramp known as Old John,
Charlie Gaskin, Bob Wasey (apprentice).

Original postcard marked Hall Road, Reepham. On the reverse:-Ollands Road, Reepham, NorfolkMiss Anne Bircham (in pram)Nursemaid Dorothy Basham?Mr Symonds in cart, (Evan Symonds Father)Mrs. Dick Hatley. (Dates : Anne Bircham was born in 1913)Two…

Undated photograph with un-named man outside - possibly Bertie Hall or his father John Ebenezer Hall who died in 1955

Small B&W photo of shop on Market Place corner with four people in doorway (no names). Sign above "A.S.HARDIMENT". Wooden rail is topped with spikes.
Accompanied by text by Arthur Hardiment, nephew of A. S. Hardiment.

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Photograph and text from a local newspaper

Written to accompany the Reepham Society 2003 History Exhibition this publication uses quotes from Harry Hawes' memories of the town in the late 1800s to illustrate a history of the main buildings and their occupiers and their trades in the centre of…

40 second MP4 drone file of the harvesting process at Eves Hill.Click on the film icon to view.

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Three photographs of traction engines in use at harvest time. Possibly 1920s.

Henry John Piercy (1860-1933) was a great uncle of Wesley Piercy (cousin to Wesley's grandfather Thomas Piercy). Henry was married to Emma Bowes in 1884 and worked as a gardener. In 1901 he was working in Euston, Suffolk, for the Duke of Grafton at…

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Henry Maurice Pratt carried on his tailoring business in what is now Reepham's Post Office. It had been a tailor's for some years and was advertised as "The Little Shop with the Big Stock". Like Albert King Henry Pratt lived in Church Hill…

Herbert Fuller took over being caretaker at the Bircham Instutute when James Piercy retired. Herbert worked as a driver on Stimpson's coal lorry.

Illuminated address presented to Herbert Temple Owen in 1957 to mark his services as church warden for more than fifty years. Herbert came from North Walsham where his father was a clergyman. In 1901, at the age of 25, Herbert was already a bank…

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Harriet Sexton (1899-1934)
Baptised Harriet, Hettie Sexton was born in Briston in 1899. In 1911 she was boarding with Charles Timbers and his housekeeper in 5 Newland Villas. She was still lodging with Charles in 1921 in one of the cottages on The…

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