R. Leeks’ daughter also remembered that as well as their  bricks and mortar business her family were also local food producers.  She remembered they had an old nissen hut down Saxham Street’s Drift Way with free range chickens and also a shed with battery cages and they were registered with the Egg Marketing Board. Her Uncle had a large glass greenhouse which was heated by a boiler, with black water pipes. Tomatoes and lettuce were grown in the greenhouse which was demolished in the early 1960s and the pipes sold for £17.

This land was rented from Aunt Ivy (Ivy Cobbold) and the strip of grass field was accessible through a gateway where the rear ditch ends, a track abutted to Uncle Gordon’s home (it was then home to home help/nanny Mrs Carr but later bought and demolished and the ‘carpet man’s’ home built).