Category: 2) Recently added pages

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…

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…

As part of Our Houses project we have added our first house on Pit street Lilac cottage. Thanks to Rosemary for her help. read about it here.

Did you know that Southrepps had four pubs and several beer houses in the 19th century? Learn more about them all here.

A new addition for Lower Street. The Willows read about it here.

The travels of the Post Office up and down the High Street. Read about the history of the post office and its sub-post masters, from its arrival in the 19th century to its closure in the 21st century. Click here.

Woodhaven. We are very pleased to add the first house on Thorpe Road. Our thanks to Claire Claxton for all the photographs and information. Click here to read about it.

Patricia Moore moved with her father William Moore the local policeman to the village in 1951. Click here to read her story If you have a photograph of Patricia or her father or have any more information we would like to hear from you. Please use the contribute form of the website.

A fascinating set of reminiscences of a long-standing Southrepps family has recently been published and is well worth reading. Click here to read it.

The third, and penultimate section of the mammoth piece of work by Chris Shaw documenting the village’s participants in World War One has just been completed. It can be found here: do check it out!