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Market Place North
View of the Market Place with snow on the ground.
Market Place North & West
Wide angle view showing the north & west sides of the Market Place.
Market Place North Side
North and part of the west side of the Market Place viewed from Church Plain.
Market Place South & West
View towards Dereham Road taken after 1921 when Edward Gibbs made his son a partner. Austin the butcher now replaced with Utting. No petrol pumps at Towns End Corner.
Market Place North & East
View across the Market Place towards the north & east sides. Ford the baker & Hilton's Stores present plus Wallace King (in Reepham 1913-1919).
Market Place North & East
View across the Market Place towards the north & east sides. Carlton House & Melton House in the centre with W. J. Ford Hilton's Stores both visible.
Jewell's postcard.
Jewell's postcard.
Church Plain from the Market Place
View towards St. Michael's with the clock in place. Suggests a date later than 1937 when the clock was replaced. Street light suspended across the road.
Market Place towards the Church
View towards St. Michael's tower including Peck's shop. Newsboards report the disappearance of Gustav Hamel in May 1914. Hamel was a famous pioneering aviator and was flying from Paris to Hendon when his plane disappeared over the Channel after…
Market Place South West
View across the Market Place showing Stoner's shop, Austin the butcher and the Sun Inn. Possibly taken at the end of market day, judging by the number of carts still parked.
Methodist Chapel
View of the Methodist Chapel taken from the cottages opposite the car park on Station Road.
Norwich Road towards the churches
View of Norwich Road towards the churches, taken from the junction with Bircham Road.
Norwich Road to the East
View along Norwich Road with schoolchildren on left, saddler's shop on right and Gray's bootmaker shop further down the road.
Eglington & Gooch Machine Works
Eglington & Gooch's works existed on the site of the current Spar shop in Ollands Road employing a variety of skilled workmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, wheelwrights and farriers.
Sidney Eglington outside Gibbs
Sidney Eglington having a rest outside Gibbs shop. There appears to be some kind of shelter in front of Hackford House.
Hospital Blues
Group of soldiers in their 'Hospital Blues' outside the back of Hackford House, later to become the Bircham Centre. The house included a room or rooms for recreation and for extra beds.
Nurses Dewing & Gibbs
Nurses Mabel Dewing & Evelyn Gibbs with unknown soldiers.
Towns End Corner
View from Towns End towards the Market Place. Gibbs has water tanks on sale, Frost's garage is selling BP & Shell petrol, & Mrs. Fred Gibbs' new shop can just be seen on the RH edge.
Market Place South
South side of the Market Place looking towards the KIngs Arms. D. & H. Kendall Chapman's premises show that the post office has removed & now sells cards, stationery, sweets, Walls Ice Cream etc.Note the white telephone box.
Back Street
View along Back Street from beside The Oaks looking west towards School Road. Back wall of Kings Arms on right, part of Nelson Cottage visible on left.
Market Place South West
View from the Market Place towards Dereham Road. Utting the butcher and Jewell the drug & photographic shops in view.