OLD HOCKHAM

 

As with most villages many buildings have changed, been improved and disappeared and events have been long forgotten by some.

Here are a few pictures as a reminder of the village and some of its buildings and events.

Unicorn Garage circa 1935

Hockham Old Bakers Shop

The Crown Pub circa 1900

Home Farm Barn circa 1960

Hockham Football Team 1956-57(The Lion Pub is in the background)

Aerial Picture of the Village 1952(The Eagle Pub is in the centre)

Harling Road circa 1910

 

Hockham School circa 1901

Hockham School Pupils in 1900

 

The ladies of the village celebrate the Queens Silver Jubilee in 1977.

Back row from left; Doreen Howe, Christine Rogers, Ruth Hardy, Jean Carter, Moira Stevens, Jennifer Howe, Barbara Breakwell and Pearl Church.

Front row from left; Jean Nurse, Penny Watkins, Delia Lean, Linda Pountain, Pat Howard, Pat Stuart, Jackie Currie and Etta Smith.

 

The village green in 1945 with the Old Lion and its barn in the background

VicarageRd in circa 1900

Arcadia in the Harling Rd, demolished in the early 1990's

Alice and Friends at the Mad Hatters Tea Party 2002

Hockham Flower Show in around 1900.

Now Walnut Close, this barn made way for housing in the not so distant past.

Wretham & Hockham station around 1914. Known affectionately as the "Crab & Winkle" line.

Hockham Church Wall paintings.

Geoff Stuart as the Mad Hatter or is it the Mad Hatter as Geoff Stuart!?