Full programme of the East Anglian Brass Band Association's festival. Includes details of the competing bands with their conductors, test pieces, previous successes dating back to 1932, trophies to be awarded & relevant advertising.
Festival Concert given by Black Dyke Mills Band, conducted by Jack Emmott. The concert included the presentation of awards & trophies to successful bands who had competed in the 19th Annual EABBA Spring Festival. Autographed by G H Willcocks, a…
Full programme of the East Anglian Brass Band Association's festival. Includes details of the competing bands with their conductors, test pieces, previous successes dating back to 1932, trophies to be awarded & relevant advertising. Robert Austin had…
Newspaper cutting from the EDP-Arts Focus series with comments on regional brass band history, standards of playing, costs of running a brass band, fund-raising & the then current status of Reepham Band. Two photographs reproduced in column : 1940 &…
Round cardboard milk bottle tops, off-white background with red cow in the centre, 'FRESH FROM THE FARM : QUALITY GUARANTEED' written around the edge, a small red circle beneath the cow reads 'SIDE PRESS'.
A photocopy of a newspaper cutting showing a crowded Market Place in the 1920s or early 1930s. A personal suggestion is that is part of a Reepham Annual Band Festival; there are at least three lots of brass band members in uniform amongst the crowd…
An in-depth research paper on the history of Hackford parish from 1000 AD. Refer to GB/REE/2103301155 for an explanation of the sketches of All Saints.
Harry Hawes died in 1957 age 94. His widow allowed the Rev. Paul Kelly to transcribe Harry's handwritten notes and they were published in the parish magazine in instalments between Sept 1978 & Jan 1980. This document is a fresh copy made in 2021 of…
Label from a coat received in July 2024 by the Charity Shop in the Bircham Centre. Albert Valentine King was a tailor whose business operated from the premises that now contains Reepham Post Office.
In 1939 his widow Katherine King was still running…
Two ladies standing on the steps of Ada Frost's grocery shop on the NW corner of the crossroads. Signs proclaim bicycles, jams, tea, jellies, motor spirit; and there's a sundial high on the wall.