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Repps Road<\/strong>, Martham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Repps Road looking east<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This ancient road has always been the main route into the village from the west and was at one time referred to as one of the five King’s Highways entering Martham Green<\/a><\/em> (the others being what we now know as Rollesby Road<\/a><\/em>, Black Street,<\/a><\/em> White Street<\/a><\/em> and Hemsby Road<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a smock mill built in Repps Road in 1850 which you can read more about by clicking HERE<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also the page called 148 Hill House & 150 Oak Villa, Repps Road.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information about the former Star Inn, Repps Road click HERE. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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By 2020 Martham Post Office<\/a><\/em> shown here (next door to The Star Inn was No26 Repps Road), re-named Clamps Close, left of it is No28 called Morningside, then No30 known as The Wilderness.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The main run of older properties on Repps Road are on the north side, numbers 26 to 68 (evens). Below are photographs of them all. Numbers 26 to 64 were built before the railway<\/a><\/em> in 1877 because they exist on the drawings of plans for the railway<\/a><\/em> but if you know more precise dates for when any of them were built, or have any other information about them, please contact me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clamps Close, 26 Repps Road.<\/strong> The former Post Office<\/a><\/em> and hairdressers run by Arthur Ribbands.<\/a><\/em> When Arthur ran his business there it was called Sheppey House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Morningside, 28 Repps Road. <\/strong>
In 1939, widower, Robert Dove (1862-1946) lived here with two of his children. He was a carpenter. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Wilderness, 30 Repps Road.<\/strong><\/a><\/em> The house was a former vets. You can read its full history by clicking on its name.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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32 Repps Road.<\/strong>
Loxwood Villa was built in 1850\/51 although it was not called by this name until 1879. You can read the full history of the house HERE.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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34 to 38 Repps Road.<\/strong>
In 1939 this was three sperate cottages.
No34 was occupied by George Thomas Harriss who was a retired roadman born in 1872.
No36 was occupied by Alfred & Edith Rouse.
No38 was occupied by Benjamin & Emma Self and their daughter Edith.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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40 Repps Road.<\/strong>
In 1939 the head of household was Mildred Braddock, nee Harris (1902-1963) the widow of Edwin Braddock. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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42 Repps Road.<\/strong>
The house was called Oaklands at some point in the past.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Garfield House, 44 Repps Road.<\/strong>
In 1939 Fred Ostler lived here. He was the railway<\/a><\/em> station master.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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46 Repps Road.<\/strong>
In 1939 the house seems to have been shared by four people; Edgar Richardson, James & Mary Chatten & Henry Newton.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Southerly, 48 Repps Road.<\/strong>
During 1937\/1939 Herbert & Florence Marsh lived here. Herbert was a retired pawnbroker.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Olive House, 50 Repps Road.<\/strong>
In 1929 Andrew Alexander Fyffe lived and worked here. He was an M.R.C.S. L.R.C.P. Physician & Surgeon & District Medical Officer to West Flegg.
For many years this was also the home and surgery of Dr. Patrick Rochford (1903-1995). He was listed as living there in 1937\/1939.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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52 Repps Road <\/strong>is missing nowadays but was the former area that Mill House Stores (Pitcher’s Store) stood on the road in front of Windmill House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inside the store<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Windmill House, 54 Repps Road.<\/strong>
This house derives from the time of the original smock mill<\/a><\/em> which was at the back of this site. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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Mill House, 56 Repps Road. <\/strong>
Modern house built at the front of the plot that had Repps Road smock mill <\/a><\/em>on it in the past. In 1939 the former house there was occupied by John & Miriam Dyball. John was a retired railway<\/a><\/em> platelayer.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Columbary, 58 Repps Road<\/strong>.
From at least 1911 to 1929, and perhaps longer, William Edward Cooke lived here and it was called Columbary.
The property was rented in the 1930’s by Robert Wilson Utting who named it ‘Bruce Rock’ after the town in Western Australia where he lived for 16 years. Robert’s son and daughter-in-law ran a B&B there and at the time named it ‘Gordon House’.
At some point before 1937 William Bracey<\/a><\/em>, the blackcurrant farmer, bought the house and it was put up for sale by his Executors in 1937 but did not attract any bids. In 1939 it was occupied by William & Grace Rigg and the name reverted to Columbary as it is today (2025).
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Morse House, 60 Repps Road.<\/strong>
The Bracey, farming family, owned the house in the early 20th century and in 1911 Henrietta Bracey, nee Broom, and two of her children were living there. In 1937 the Executors of William Bracey <\/a><\/em>put it up for auction and it was purchased by Mr H G Thirtle of Hemsby for \u00a3490.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fencote, 62 Repps Road.<\/strong>
Shown in the photograph on the right.
In 1939 Arthur & Ethel Alcock were living here. Arthur was a master painter and decorator.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The Poplars, 64 Repps Road.<\/strong>
Shown on the left of this photograph.
In 1937 the Executors of William Bracey<\/a><\/em> put the house up for auction and it was purchased by Mr Thirtle of Hemsby for \u00a3490.
In 1939 the widow of Anthony William Crisp,<\/a><\/em> Charlotte, nee Herring was living here with her companion Alice Norfolk.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Former Police House, 66 Repps Road.<\/strong>
In 1939 Frank & Hannah Copeman were living here. He was a policeman.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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68 Repps Road.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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112, 114, 116 & 118 Repps Road. This terrace of four houses was built in 1933 by Walter Harriss (1874-1946) <\/a><\/em>for some of his children. Walter lived with his large family in White Street <\/a><\/em>and was a very skilled wheelwright, carpenter and builder. It is likely that he was helped with the building of this terrace by his sons  Alfred, Philip and Eric.<\/p>\n\n\n

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112, 114, 116 & 118 Repps Road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

On the south side of Repps Road there are three detached bungalows Nos. 3, 5 and 7 that were built in the 1950’s by the owners of the Martham Boat Building Company.<\/a><\/em> During this period their business was in its heyday. Two of its directors lived there; the Managing Director Jimmy Brown lived at No5 whilst the Chief Designer, Maurice Davey, lived at No7. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For photographs of Repps Road click a thumbnail for a close-up and scroll through all the images from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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