Noak Hill School

The school closed on 19th July 1977. It then became the School House Restaurant for a while before being purchased by the Heron Education Trust who ran the building as an independent faith school, this lasted a couple of years before it was placed back into auction and was purchased by the Hindu Welfare Association, who currently run it.
At the time the first two photographs were taken in 1981 it was a restaurant. The last photo by Don Tait was taken in 2011.

You can download the school logbooks here. These books detail the everyday events at the school and are in fact a brief diary of events. The transcripts of these books were provided to us by Ernie Herbert who painstakingly trancribed all 388 pages from the original hand written books.

There are three books. Number One,1878-1905. Number Two,1922-1951. Number Three,1973-1977. They make fascinating reading 388 pages in total.