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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…

Ten images. 4 black and white photographs of the children's tea party inside the Town Hall.

6 colour negatives showing preparation for the Street Parties in the Market Place and in Back Street.

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 &…

A newspaper report of traders' proposals to reinvigorate Reepham

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'.

In the mid-1950s cardboard tops were…

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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.

1min 27 second MP4 drone file of Salle Park.Click on the film icon to view.

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An account of the box tomb located in St Mary's Church, Reepham

Norwich Road in the early 1900s, with brief details about Beaver House, Jesse Bircham and John Rooke.

Information about Richard Amiss, a grocer, draper and tailor of Reepham in the mid-1800s.

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Some details of the life of Robert Eaglen, shepherd & gamekeeper, who lived on Bawdeswell Road.

A brief history of Salle written to mark the Millennium in 2001

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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…

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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…

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Folder of over 40 photographs taken before the garage closed in 2016. Two exterior views shown here.
Brief biography of Squire Abbs with two images.

Absolute surrender of Hackford Hall by Eliza Ann Holley and Windham Hunt Holley Esq to Arthur Leamon.

Transcription followed by copy of document.
Tr. Ref. No. SH_001_INDE

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.
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