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Article reporting the launch of a guide to open churches in Norfolk at St Michael's.

Two personal accounts of Reepham from 1935-1945 including music during the Second World War

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,…

Sample extract from a digital copy of Reepham St Mary & Kerdistone tithe map with areas of land numbered.
Parts of the map have been copied & analysed many times & results of this work are stored in the Tithe Documents Collection.
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Information on the church building with interior features described. Originally compiled by the head of of Reepham School (B.Wise?) in 1981 & re-issued in 1983 with foreword by David Rosenthal. The original 16pp version includes detailed historical…

Report from EDP of St. Michael's revamp in 2010, plus 3-fold pamphlet explaining changes to be made. Further cutting from 2011 reporting on RIBA award made to Norwich's A Squared architects.

A comprehensive history of Reepham Moor, including an account of Moor House, tithes and dwellings on The Moor.

A second picture of the scouts in front of Hackford House in 1911, including Amy Rump on a pony. Taken in the same year that the Hackford House Troop attended the King's Rally at Windsor.

Transcription of an inventory made in the 14th century. The list includes books, vestments and silver held by St. Mary's. Very few items listed for All Saints & St. Michael's.
Second sheet giving explanations of some of the terms.

Handwritten programme of events with advertisements from local businesses. Randells are advertising colour televisions.

Two letters from Edward Holley to his partner T. W. Purdy. The first talks of being ill, the second refers to Ivy House, Foulsham. He is resident at Ivy House in the 1921 census & Purdy is living in Woodgate House, Aylsham. The partners had a…

Extensive notes collated by Kate Nightingale for display at this exhibition which was organised by the Reepham Society History Group and coincided with the publication of the RS Millennium Magazine.

+ Detailed report on the successes of the 2001…

A small booklet about Reepham, printed in 1967, included this poem by Maggie Pye, which lamented the closure of Gibbs & Son.

This article written by Cyril Jolly appeared in the Eastern Daily Press in April 1967, shortly after the Edward Gibbs & Son business closed. It was republished in the Reepham Society Newsletter, Spring 1989.

From articles published in the Reepham Society Newsletter, Spring 1989, written by the editor, Michael Black, with assistance from Marjorie Gibbs.

Extracts from Broadland District Council's local plan for Reepham which shows and details the 50 listed buildings in Reepham

A brief history of The Ollands and its occupants, particularly the early 20th century author Edward Philips Oppenheim. Published in the Reepham Society Newsletter, November 1987

Ordnance Survey map, scale 1:2500, surveyed 1884