Nostalgic memories of Noak Hill's local history

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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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Dies anyone remember the convent in priory road noak hill ? I remember seeing the nuns walking down the road in their bkack habits. I used to run away feeling scared
This is the village shop on the road leading toward Romford. I often went there as a child in the 1950s. Nell tried to stock everything people would need and always kept a chair in the shop because it was a long walk for some people to get to there. My father remembers Nell saying that she did not have an item in the shop which he wanted so she offered to get it for him when she next went to Romford on the bus. ...see more
Outside the school is Lottie Knight who lived in Noak Hill all her life and who used to give me sweets when I was a child and she was an old lady. The man with the Suffolk punch horse is George Oval who I did not know, but his younger brother Bob also lived in the village and gave me sweets. We all knew each other there. My parents and their brothers and sisters all attended the school before me. My ...see more
I lived in Chequers Road, called Chequers lane in these photos. The girl in the photo is standing outside her gate in the house that was next door. My house was the other side of the tree. When the photo was taken there were two old wooden cottages which my father helped to pull down when the new brick ones were built. They were farm worker's cottages. The one where the girl stands was for the cow man and the other ...see more
It was 1947, when my parents were told they would be able to move from their one room in a house to a Prefab in Harold Hill. My mother was pregnant. You didn't start school until you were 5. The closest school was Hilldene Primary, off of Straight Road. I wasn't yet 5. My parents were told of Noak Hill School. They went and spoke with the Head Mistress, I believe, who accepted me to start ...see more
I was at this school all through the 50s and celebrated the Queens Coronation at the school. All the girls wore a little paper crown on the group photograph that was taken. I had happy memories of my time there and keep in touch with one of the girls I went to school with and now we are in our 60s. I have vivid memories of two old gentlemen coming to the school and they must be long dead now but it seems ...see more