Education
Brought up in Northampton, Noel Mobbs was educated at Bedford Modern School.
Brought up in Northampton, Noel Mobbs was educated at Bedford Modern School.
Another of Noel"s brothers, Edgar, was a well-known Rugby player. In 1920 he and Sir Percival Perry acquired Slough Depot, a vehicle park where thousands of disused military vehicles had been abandoned. First they sold the vehicles and then they converted the factories and let them out for industrial use, so establishing the Slough Trading Estate.
He was also keen to establish sporting and social facilities for the people of Slough and in 1928 he bought Stoke Park Golf Club for £30,000 and reformed lieutenant
He also established the Stoke Poges Garden which is open to the public as well as the Slough Community Centre which opened in 1936. Mobbs was an avid bridge player and in 1950 he chaired the British Bridge League.
He died in Bournemouth in 1959.
