Southrepps History Hub

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  • Warren Road

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    Margaret Dowland
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    Warren Road is in Lower Street, and we are pleased to add our first house in the, Our Houses project; Larks Rise. You can also see a postcard of Warren Road in the 1920s/30s as well as the 1886 OS map. Click here. If you have any memories of The Hill please contact us.

  • The Reading Room

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    Margaret Dowland
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    The 1905 Ordnance Survey map of Lower Street shows a Reading Room. See if you agree with our research suggesting where it was located. Discover its history and how it evolved to give us today’s Lower Street Social Club. Click here. As always we would be delighted to hear from you if you can add…

  • Beechlands Park

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    Margaret Dowland
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    Read the new introduction to Beechlands Park, complete with 1907 map and aerial view. We also have information on two of the houses in this development. Can you add yours? Click here to read about it.

  • December update

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    Duncan Westlake
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    The Southrepps Society History Hub website is continuing to grow in size and coverage. The ‘Our Houses’ (https://southreppshistory.org.uk/buildings/our-houses/ ) project in particular has new information on some houses on Chapel Street, Thorpe Road and Lower Street. We’re still very keen for you to add yours: why not make it your New Year’s resolution! We now…

  • Chapel Street

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    Margaret Dowland
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    Is your house in Chapel Street ? Do you want to know the history of Chapel Street ? Using maps, census returns and Parish data Colin tells the history of Chapel Street and of his own house Cobble Cottage. Read it here Please send us a photograph and history of your house. Contact us if…

  • Our Houses

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    Margaret Dowland
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    We have added to two more houses on Lower Street as well as a map to help with location. Click here to read about them. Thank you to the owners for their help in this project. If you know anything more, or wish to correct information don’t hesitate to contact us.

  • Village schools

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    Margaret Dowland
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    When one thinks of schools in Southrepps the immediate thought is of Antingham and Southrepps School. Which is not in Southrepps at all. We do have some tantalising clues to the existence of private schools running in Upper Street as early as the 1660s. Click here to read more.

  • Sir William Cubitt

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    Margaret Dowland
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    Famous Victorian Civil Engineer William Cubitt worked with his father Joseph at Southrepps mill Lower Street between 1790 and 1801. It was here, he first learnt his technical skills repairing the village mill. To read more click here

  • The Cottrell Family

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    Margaret Dowland
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    Never heard of them ? No neither had I until it they were mentioned in the archive by Kenneth Walpole he said he had been researching them and that was all we had. So this is what I have managed to find out. I hope it is of some interest and it definitely links to…

  • Fourth instalment of World War One participant biographies now published.

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    Duncan Westlake
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    The fourth section of the mammoth piece of work by Chris Shaw documenting the village’s participants in World War One has just been completed, covering surnames beginning P-Z. It’s not quite the end of Chris’s work on this topic, as some 30 other possible participants have come to light and need investigating. It can be…