Noak Hill, The Lane To The Church 1908

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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 ...see more