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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.
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
Reepham personalities and institutions
Short profiles of four Reepham personalities - Jessie Brown MBE, Ben Stimpson, Wesley Piercy and Tony Ivins - and a brief outline of the Whitwell Hall County 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.
A thousand years of Salle
A brief history of Salle written to mark the Millennium in 2001
VAD Personnel WWI
List compiled from the Red Cross website of people involved with the running of Norfolk VAD 52 hospital based in Reepham.
Childhood memories of Reepham
A personal account of life in Reepham in the 1920s and 1930s by Ann Dickinson, a member of the Gibbs family
A brief history of Hackford parish through the last millennium
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.