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Photo taken by D.Kendall Chapman looking up Station Road with car approaching, Gable end of Gibbs Seed Room visible on right. Cycle shop with sun blinds down on left with neighbouring garage. Street light suspended over the cossroad and iron signpost…

Reepham Norfolk Town Map issued to celebrate The 75th Anniversary Year of the Bircham Centre. These maps were sold in aid of the Bircham Centre Restoration Fund for 15p each.

Reepham Town Hall set up as a hospital ward for recuperating soldiers. Dr. Perry stands at centre back.

Details taken from Fragments of a Village Life: Kay Baillie is one of the girls in the doorway at Town Farm House. Her grandfather, Horace Howard, owned it and passed it to her father, Dennis Howard, in 1918. When he retired in 1945 due to ill-health…

Photocopy of a portion of the original tithe map of Hackford next Reepham.

Sketch map of Reepham Town Centre copied from the tithe map for Hackford Parish, 1844, showing more clearly the numbers for each parcel of land. Can be linked to…

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Reepham Brass Band taking part in a contest to raise funds for N.A.N.S.A. in the year of the disabled.
Notice at the front of the stage states :-
'A charity entertainments contest featuring 18 brass bands from all over East Anglia.'

Not an EABBA…

Tony Moy & Steve Groom at Abbs Garage. Tony also pictured outside the garage.

Based on a talk on the history of Whitwell parish given to the Reepham Society

Postcard advertising Tommy Ruffles' Band. Since Tommy Ruffles was a Fakenham resident the brass players are most likely to have been members of Fakenham Band. This item is included because of Tommy Ruffles' longstanding connections with Reepham…

Tinted postcard of Tollgate House on Reepham Road, Bawdeswell.
Vulcan Series Postcard

John Bingley Barraclough was the incumbent for Hackford & Whitwell from 1911 to 1913, living at Whitwell Vicarage. Includes a statement of accounts.

5 items :- 1 cake tin 155mm dia x 75mm deep1 small rectangular shovel (for cooking?)1 rounded shovel 145mm x 55mm x 70mm1 small funnel 75mm dia x 127mm, small triangular hook on rim1 small funnel 65mm dia x 116mmThe cake tin is labelled 'Example of…

Family trees pertaining to the Timbers family of Reepham and Salle. Included is the report of Charles Timbers' funeral in 1922. He had been the manager of the Kerdiston estate for J. J. Bishop & later his son Arthur Bishop.

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Thurning, Ordnance Survey, 1906, second edition, surveyed in 1884-85, revised in 1905, scale 1:2500, ref. Norfolk Sheet XXVII 9, showing Thurning Hall and Tyby.

Thurning, Ordnance Survey, 1906, second edition, surveyed in 1885, revised in 1905, scale 1:2500, ref. Norfolk Sheet XXVII 5, showing Thurning Hall and church.

Early photograph, taken before 1934, with a presentation border. It shows the threshing model 'steamed up' suggesting that it was a fully workable model. The model was made by Fred J, Gibbs, nephew of Edward Gibbs.

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Corn threshing. Possibly a demonstration or competition, seeing the cars and tractors parked around the field.Reg. No. OCL 55W was issued in 1981.

On the reverse is written "Nurses at Bircham Centre, then known as Hackford House, 1914-1918 War". Mabel Dewing is the nurse on the left.

Three similar professional quality photographs of Reepham. Taken after the development of Merchants Yard & the Spar supermarket. Abbs Garage still existent as are the buildings behind the Old Brewery House Hotel.

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Three views of Ollands Road taken in the late 1960s (?). Two show the top of Ollands Road. Part of the sign for the Crown public house can just be seen at the edge on the right. A third view, looking down the road, showing part of buildings that were…
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