In 1992 the Reepham Society nominated Whitwell Common for Broadland's Green Award. Whitwell Common did not receive the award.The notes are held for the background information they contain:- nomination forms and reports on Whitwell Common Volunteers'…
Tracing made by Kate Nightingale made 5 March 1993 of a map belonging to Mr Tony Ivins of Whitwell Hall. See also GB/REE/2108041645, Occupants of Whitwell Common Cottages in 1905 & 1971 by Ann Middlemas
Documents connected with grazing rights on Whitwell Common including a list of commoners from 1924 & a letter from 1928 informing them about changes in the rules.
The commoners were entitled, for 5 shillings a year, to graze up to two split-hoof…
A history of Whitwell & Reepham Station and the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GN) from the station opening in 1882 to 1959 when passenger services ceased.
Background to the statue made by William Lain in the 1970s. The 'Walking Man' stood in the yard on Norwich Road where William Lain had a stonemasonry and sculpting business.
Two postcards of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Station Road. They show the same image by different publishers, dating from after 1904. The schoolroom end of the building has been enlarged and a porch added. The cottages on the left remain but…
Watts Austin, born around 1830, butcher, with his wife, in about 1904.
His father, also Watts Austin, 1802-1877 was a butcher. He married Ann Pye who was listed as a pauper at her death in 1884.
Decorated charabanc outside the Bircham Institute.On the reverse: Walter Reeve's Charabanc. Lad sitting on front - Austin Burton.Austin Burton died aged about 90 in about 2018. Estimated date of this photograph is around 1939.
Wallace King, House Furnishers of Norwich, based in part of Hackford House with stabling/storage on the fish & chip shop site in Back Street, 1913-1919. John Plane Walker is on the far left.