HOLBROOK

Holbrook is located on the Shotley peninsula a few miles east of Ipswich. The Royal Hospital School, a large boarding school that relocated to Holbrook from Greenwich in 1933 following a generous benefaction by Gifford Sherman Reade of Holbrook, dominates the village.

The Street Holbrook.

The Compasses public house is the larger of two public houses that still serve the village.

All Saints church and the War memorial.

All saints church, a rather small church that has been much repaired and rebuilt, it is one of only a few churches in Suffolk to have a tower built on the side instead of the end.

An unusual sight, this cast iron gravestone was one of a pair in the churchyard. Of all the churchyards I have visited this is the first time I've seen cast iron gravestones.

Picturesque pink cottages along side the main road that runs through the village.

Further down the road is Holbrook Mill, now a private residence .

To the south of the village stands the famous Royal Hospital School, the largest boarding school in East Anglia. It was founded nearly 300 years ago as part of the Greenwich Hospital in London to educate the children of seafarers. The school moved to Holbrook in 1933 and the original Greenwich buildings now house the National Maritime Museum. The main tower of the school is a local landmark and can be seen for miles around.

This ships figurehead (Indian prince) was presented to the school in 1976 after the closure of HMS Ganges, the Royal Naval Training Establishment that was situated at nearby Shotley.

The inscription on this old cannon reads:
This cannon was presented by HRH Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, and was at the schools former home in Greenwich prior to its move to Holbrook in 1933. It was cast in the Ottoman lands in the period 1790-1791 and was probably one of a pair captured from the Turks on Kinaliada, Princes'Islands on 27 February 1807.