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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.
Silver Jubilee Train
Silver Jubilee Train to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of passenger services on the Wroxham to County School branch line.
Armistice Day Parade
Parade assembled in Market Place, date unknown.
Market Place West
View from the Market Place towards Dereham Road. Barclays Bank on the right and Utting the butcher has been replaced with Wright, a fishmonger.
Kendall Chapman postcard.
Kendall Chapman postcard.
School Road
View looking down School Road from the school gates with Massey & Bridges garage in the distance.
Daisy Burton's Marriage
Extract from Sparham Deanery Magazine giving details of Daisy Burton's marriage to Alfred Morris Mole in 1913,
Booton Church
Image of Booton Church, possibly a Tuck postcard
Red Cross Hospital
Extract from a booklet issued to publicise the efforts made to the convalescence of wounded soldiers. Photograph taken at the back of the Bircham Centre
View from St. Michael's Tower
Bird's eye view of the Market Place showing Woods' shop and Peck's stores. The rear of the Bircham Centre is shown clearly on the left.
VAD Personnel WWI
List compiled from the Red Cross website of people involved with the running of Norfolk VAD 52 hospital based in Reepham.
Fairway Garage
View towards Reepham on the Cawston Road showing Fairway Garage and the water tower that stood near the junction with Orchard Lane.
Reepham in the 1920s
Copy of an article written by the Rev. A. G. Allcock for the East Anglian Town & Country Magazine. He describes his childhood days in Reepham in the 1920s. The accompanying advertisements give a taste of the shopping opportunities in the 1970s, e.g.…
Manor House Estate Sale, Great Witchingham
Particulars & Conditions of Sale of the Manor House Estate, including Eades Mill, at auction in Norwich 7th July 1877 under the will of Mr John Elmer Ebbetts.
Norwich Road
View of Norwich Road looking towards Booton. The white building was the storage for George Storey, painter & decorator. In the right foreground is Jesse Bircham's chemist shop & further along is the sign for George Grey's shop where he made &…
Greetings from Reepham
Postcard with selection of views compiled from other postcards. It may have been intended to be used as a Christmas Greetings card.
Ginnett's Circus
Very old image, possibly 1890s. Taken in the Market Place facing the chemist shop run by Johnson Cripps. In more recent times this building was once used by Barclay's Bank, later by Quinneys & more recently by Country Cottages. The large wagon in the…
Baptist Chapel
Very poor image of the chapel that stood in Fisher's Alley. (Included for historical reference.) Built in 1842 as a Baptist Chapel, later used by a Free Methodist group. After Methodist Union in 1935 it was used as a carpenter's workshop and later…