Hockwold Hall in 1918 with bell tents on the front lawn, and vegetables and fruit growing either side of the “banjo”

Prince and Princess Victor Duleep Singh spent WWI in Paris, and the Newcome family had no need of it. In 1918, the “Air Ministry” occupied the Hall, digging  a new well there, whilst constructing an aerodrome at Feltwell. A 2ft gauge railway was constructed by Robert MacAlpine to the aerodrome up the road past the Hall, from Lakenheath Station.