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Heather at Dunwich Heath
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| Lowestoft |
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| Lowestoft's biggest claim to fame is
that it is Great Britain's most easterly town. Unlike
Land's End or John 'O' Groats, for many years Lowestoft
did not really shout about this. Now the matter has been
put right and you can visit Ness Point (the most eastely
point) and see the "Euroscope". this is a giant
circular platform that shows the direction and distances
of major European towns and other points in Britain. Nearby
also you can look in amazement at the country's most easterly
landbased wind turbine. Made by local company SLP you
can stand literally at it's foot and gaze upwards (watch
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| Lowestoft South beach, looking
toward the South Pier |
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Lowestoft's
other claim to fame is that it was once one of the country's
major fishing ports. The area around Ness Point was at
one time known as the Beach Village and was home to many
of the town's inhabitants who worked in the fishing industry
either onland or at sea. In enormous floods that swept
much of England in 1953 the whole of the Beach Village
was underwater for several days.
It was the size of the catches that came into the local
harbour that caused major food producer Birds Eye to set
up their operation in the town. The fishing industry may
now be much depleted but Bird's Eye still dominate much
of the Beach Village area.
Leading up from the old Beach Village (very few houses
now remain) to the High Street, are tiny streets and steps
known locally as "scores".
Interesting photographs from old
Lowestoft can be found on the Anglia
Ancestors website.
You can learn much about the town's fishing past at the
Maritime Museum in the nearby Sparrow's Nest Park just
north of Ness Point. If you visit the South Pier and the
Yacht Basin you can go onboard a trawler and get a first
hand experience of life for the fisherman.
Lowestoft was heavily flooded in the 1953 floods, a book
on the time can be found
here» |
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Lowestoft's Maritime Museum
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One of the many scores -
Maltsters Score |
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At the top of Spurgeon
Score and at the meeting of St Peters Street and High Street
you will find "The Triangle" Market Place. There are
weekly markets on Fridays and Saturdays and regular specialist
markets held at this site as they have done for hundreds of
years. Recently the area has been regenerated and the stalls
have been modernised. There is another market in the town centre
at Britten Centre which takes place Tuesday, Friday and Saturday
(range of goods including clothes, fish, cakes and fruit and
veg).
In addition to fish, Lowestoft is also well-reknowned for its
Lowestoft Porcelain, distincitve was its blue and white designs.
(One of the finest collections of Lowestoft Porcelain can be
seen, not in Lowestoft but at Ipswich's
Christchurch Mansion). Pottery is once more being made in
Lowestoft and you can visit "The Kiln" which is located
at Whapload Road, opposite the exit to Somerfield's car park. |
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