Author: Margaret Dowland
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Audrey Veness
For those of you familiar with the website will know that we already have the memoir of Audrey Veness. We a have been given a longer version which includes her early life in Suffolk and greater detail about her childhood in Southrepps. A lot of it repeats what is in the shorter version but we…
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Church Tower open 8th August
A late notice to let you all know that the Church tower will be open this Saturday from 10.30 until 4.00. There will be a ring up and down of the bells to start the proceedings and a demonstration as well. The History Hub will be there with photographs and memorabilia of the Church and…
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Nature Sightings.
We have added a new button to our home page Nature Sightings. Some of the flora on Southrepps Commons has been recorded as far back as 1886. Many surveys have been completed and there are there are over 500 plant species on the five Commons. Since 1990 records have also been kept of the fauna…
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Whitegates Road
Continuing our project on the houses of the village we are able to add the first and last houses on Whitegates Road. Thanks go to Louis De Soissons for his contribution about the Old Rectory. This also contains a few memories of times past at the Rectory so if you have any to share do…
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Southrepps Support Scheme 1992-2025
Thanks to Malcolm Hilson, we now have an excellent page on the Southrepps Support Scheme which for over 30 years coordinated villagers supporting their fellow villagers. We are very lucky to have been given old copies of their newsletter and past Mardlers which help fill in some of the village history. If you would like…
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So…
No not so what, but SO… the Southrepps based charity that supports early onset Alzheimer’s patients and their families. So if you want to now what goes on in the village hall on a Tuesday morning click here. If you belong to a group that uses the village hall please do tell us about your…
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Telephone boxes
We have added a short piece at the end of the page on telephone exchanges. The village used to have two public telephone boxes . We still have one working one in Lower Street. Click Here We would like to find out when they were changed from the Red ones to the ‘modern’ grey boxes.…
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Then and Now
In the Archive we have some postcards dating from about the 1920s, we are trying to recreate these images one hundred years later. Have a look to see how well we have done, you might be surprised by how little some have changed and others not at all. This is only Lower Street, Upper street…
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Louisa Pestell
There are many older residents who know the name Lou Pestell. She was a ‘lady of the road’ as my Mum would say. In an article in a book Norfolk Remember by Robert Bagshaw, he tells he story. I have transcribed it here. Thanks to Julian Daniels for finding this gem for us. If you…
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Norfolk Marathon
Did you take part in this years Norfolk marathon? Did you take you support the runners as they came through the village? If you did, did you take any photos? Please send them to us, or an account of your run and we can add them to our page. Click here