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Memories from Heather Normand (née Beaver)

Beaver House, Norwich Road, 1900s
Lighted sign reads: Vet Surgeon, F B Taylor
Man in doorway probably Arnold Beaver

Walter Ford was a member of the Norwich Diocesan Association of Bellringers for 60 years and Reepham's tower captain from 1944. Walter began ringing when he was 15. He lived long enough to see the re-hanging & addition of two more bells (1977-1979)…

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Studio portrait of Benjamin Edmunds Wyand (1844-1913). He was born in Halvergate and worked as a blacksmith. By 1881 he was registered as a farmer in Whitwell and later censuses give his address as Eades Mill Farm, Great Witchingham.
Included is his…

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Benjamin Man was born at Houghton in the Hole and at one time worked as a seaman at Blakeney. He was a paid member of the Shipwrecked Fishermen & Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society in 1857. In 1871 he was listed as a hawker boarding on Back…

Presented to the town by Samuel Bircham in 1919 as a reading room and social centre, it continues to be a valuable meeting centre under the control of a board of trustees. It also houses the Reepham branch of Norfolk Public Libraries. Originally…

Aerial view of Reepham Market Place showing Bircham Centre, Kings Arms and shops opposite Post Office. "Hardiment's Stores" painted on wall of corner shop.Outside Bircham Centre - white telephone box, no bus shelter.

Article from the Eastern Daily Press in 2013 recording the opening of the Bircham Centre Archive Rooms, with illustrations of the Memorabilia Room.

Main photo Gill Wheatley : Administrator
Below Kate Brewster and Sue Ivins, Chair of the…

Colour photograph of the Bircham Centre kitchen in 2021 before it became the Book Room.

Undated photograph of the garden at the Bircham Institute showing heavy growth of ivy over the garden room door.

Bircham's Yard in the late 1970s. The water pump is still standing in situ.

Two similar views taken in the early 1900s from the top of St Michael's tower. Shows Overtons Bakery & Frankland's shop. Other buildings visible include Swiss Cottage and a section of the Ollands Estate.
The modern colour image was taken when…

View from St Michael's tower. Postcard inscribed July 1st 1920. No corner window on Bank House. No front door on shop currently butcher's.
Second image with new heading.

Description of a farrier's work with more information about Sidney Eglington's agricultural machinery business and the public beer house known as the Farriers Arms.

Blanche Dewing served as a VAD Nurse in Reepham during the First World War. She was the daughter of Martin Dewing and the family lived in Reepham Moor. The photograph on display in Reepham Archive is annotated “Blanche Dewing” & has always been…

Rev. George Hurst blessing a new ambulance in 1956. Members of the Red Cross are present & there are plenty of onlookers in the Market Place. Hints of a band far left, behind some Red Cross volunteers. Background includes fishmonger N.J.Wright,…

An account of an accident in 1811 in which a gentleman on horseback died while crossing the ford at Booton, some years before a bridge was constructed. Also an account of the removal of the windmill at Booton. Both articles from a handwritten letter…

View of the elaborate towers of St. Michael's Church, Booton. The Rev. Whitwell Elwin rebuilt the church over a period of thirty years from 1870 until his death in 1900.
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