St. Thomas' School Noak Hill

A Memory of Noak Hill.

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 cousin went there too. My father worked at the farm which was owned by the Watt family. He used to drive his tractor by the school often. The farm was mixed, dairy and arable. The Neave family took a great interest in the school before the war. I know they had the church (St. Thomas') built just up the road. I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in getting the school built too. My grandfather was their gamekeeper and lived in the village around about the time these photos were taken.