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Baling hay on a farm at Kerdiston with machinery driven by a 1921 7hp Marshall engine.

Richard Wilkin, born 12 May 1917, was the son of Thomas & Ellen Wilkin. In 1939 the Wilkin family was living at 2 Railway Terrace, New Road in Reepham. Richard served in the Far East with the Royal Norfolk Regiment and was captured in Singapore…

Copy of a view of Norwich Road, Booton, from the Kings Head looking towards Reepham. The cottages on the roadside are now mostly painted white. Original pc copied & enlarged

Tinted postcard giving a wide angle view of Church Plain, labelled Church Street. Mary Woods shop on the right with shutter box. Image taken before 1911. By that date Riches had taken over the store. No clock in ivy covered tower.

View down the hill towards Norwich Road taken in the late 1920s. The poster is advertising a harvest festival meeting. The I.X.L. Bakery has the name Barrow at the top of the sign.

Tinted postcard of The Star public house on Whitwell Street. It closed in 1935 and is now a private house.

Group of men outside the Old Rectory gates showing off a prize bull. Sidney Eglington on left, possibly Edward Gibbs at centre behind the bull, Richard Watts Austin, butcher, may be third from the right.
Irelands' Fat Cattle Show was held annually…

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…

View of Gibbs' terrace. The two-storey extension on the left-hand side was added in about 1907. This photograph dates before 1914. By WWI Edward Gibbs had a new sign which projected out from the building.
The name F. Gibbs refers to Fred Gibbs,…

Sketch of Booton Church dated 1830. From a framed photograph showing what the church was like before Whitwell Elwin totally redesigned it.

Studio portraits of Barbara Owen (1907- 2009) as a child.

A Tuck postcard of Whitwell Vicarage on Mill Road (here called The Rectory) which first appears in the 1881 census occupied by Rev W. H. Freeman. The house may have been built in the mid-1870s. The second postcard is a copy- the original would have…

Tinted postcard of Norwich Road looking towards the churches. The frontage of G. E. Gray the bootmaker remains the same. Gray is registered in the 1911 census.

Image of the terrace on the north side of the Market Place that currently contains the shop and post office. It shows the original format of a central house/shop with a smaller house/cottage on each side. The reverse of the postcard states 'Howard…

Remembrance card for Sarah Breese who died in 1867 aged 96. At the time of her death she was living with her daughter Mary in Norwich Road. Her husband Matthew died in 1840. Sarah, her husband Matthew and their daughter Mary are all buried in Reepham…

Postcard of Heydon Hall probably dating from the late 1920s. The term 'Moulton's Series' may refer to Cawston's postmaster from 1929 to 1934.
Restoration work was undertaken in the 1970s.

Postcard showing a view of Whitwell Hall before the brick extension was built at the side.

Postcard showing the entrance to the Moor House on the left with gardener's house visible behind the fence. The Black Lion public house can just be seen through the trees.

Image of St. Michael's & St. Mary's. Church tower and most of walls covered in ivy. Clock in place. Railings along the pathway.

Postcard view of St. Michael's and St. Mary's taken from Back Street.