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North Lowestoft Heritage Action Zone "The North Lowestoft Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) covers Lowestoft High Street and Scores, the Sparrow’s Nest Park and the Whapload Road area.   The aim of the HAZ is to promote the renovation and repair of historic buildings and public spaces to stimulate the economic revival of the area.

A project funded by the Arts Council is calling on people to share memories of a town's now-closed department store.

Tuttles Tales will examine Tuttles in Lowestoft, Suffolk, which closed in 1981, through personal stories and physical memorabilia.

The stories will be collated to inspire a production of the same name at The Seagull Theatre in March 2024.

Lowestoft, 1550-1750: Development and Change in a Suffolk Coastal Town by David Butcher

A detailed history of the town of Lowestoft, its society, economy, and topography. `A superbly researched study.... An excellent addition not only to the history of Suffolk but of early modern society and economy more generally.' Professor RICHARD SMITH, University of Cambridge.

A £10m transformation of a former town hall building will bring "social and economic benefit", a council said.

The granting of planning permission means the building in Lowestoft, Suffolk, will become a multi-use hub and will include a cafe, gallery and a community event space. CREDIT: BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-67433556 

#LowestoftDaysOfChristmas 10th day.. FROM SWAN INN and CROMWELL's HQ to well loved shops in many guises. Nos. 41-42 High Street, as seen today, are replacement buildings for "The Swan" inn, which once occupied the site and served as one of Lowestoft's premier hostelries during the 16th and 17th centuries. It was where Oliver Cromwell stayed overnight on 14 March 1643/44, when he came to Lowestoft (from Cambridge) with a force of cavalry, having heard tell of a shipment of arms either entering or leaving the town (it has never been established which).

This is a chronological account of Lowestoft's Triangle Market, which has been in existence for over 700 years. 

1208 King John issued Charter to Great Yarmouth creating Great Yarmouth as a free Burgh and other useful things, but were “...not being allowed to receive any custom of goods bought or sold in the market in Lothingland at any time of the year.” (Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft A reprint: with a chapter of more recent events by AE Murton 1897)

1251 Kessingland Market Charter granted in the reign of Henry 111

Lowestoft Town Council are busily working on rejuvenating The Triangle Market Place. The ex-Bob the Grocer's van is being re-furbished and re-roofed right now. Word has it that the new permanent stalls will be in place in the near future. Rock on, LTC..

Quiz NIght at the Triangle. 5 rounds, £2 per person, MAX five in a team.

Vinyl Night at Triangle Tavern featuring The Polemical Brothers. Bring your own Vinyl to guarantee at least one track you like!

Suffolk Recorders https://slhc.org.uk/recorders/ 

https://bit.ly/SocDayProg2024 

https://historicengland.org.uk/campaigns/help-write-history/everyday-heritage-grants/ 

Ipswich zoom meeting Cllr Carole Jones Contact in bury Suffolk sight meeting + newsletter article 2.5k Scanner - business dir idea 

Meeting with LADIA 

Ambassador event 8th mar John/christine to attend 

A collection of musings and ideas that may benefit the local community.. if only we could remember what they are! lol

• High Street leaflet highlighting the amazing diversity of businesses we have
• Use content from above as features on Facebook
• High St traders group (see Tim for details)
• Mini beach train but serving High St (hey all ideas welcome)
• A mailing list with regular updates/ offers
• umm .. other things that Piers said

Please add other ideas in the comments below...

Thank you for expressing your interest in using the Lowestoft branding assets.   Within the google drive there will be access to the Lowestoft Story, The Lowestoft Toolkit (brand guidelines), The Font, visual identity, visual language and the photography elements.   The link to access the documents is below

If you have any questions regarding anything within the google drive, then please let me know.

The mindless, unnecessary, criminal damage that is currently happening to the most easterly landmark in the UK must stop. The recent damage, (5/12/23) to the Euroscope at Ness Point will cost thousands of pounds of tax payers’ money to repair. 

The damage has been reported to the police. Please come forward with any information you may have on why this damaging action is happening and who the perpetrator may be. Please contact Suffolk Police on with any information by reporting online https://orlo.uk/Ci52d, 

Sometimes we have big household items which we need to replace. Quite often the replacements are second-hand, and households are left with large things which are difficult to get rid of, especially if you don't have access to a van or a trailer or something. And so sometimes they get dumped in back alleys or on the street. Fly-tipping. No one wants that.

Lowestoft Town Council has a remedy. They are funding a trial scheme 'Bulky Waste Free Collection and Disposal' service.

Historic England's Missing Pieces Project invites you to share your pictures and stories of the unique, significant and memorable places on the National Heritage List for England (otherwise known as ‘the List’). The List is a register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites across England.

Your view of a place, including Lowestoft,  is as unique as you are, so every snapshot and story you add is an important piece of the picture. 

'FROM SECRETS CORNER' IS Available NOW AT MORAL OF THE STORY! £12

Janice Burns & Jon Doran make a much-anticipated return to Lowestoft this winter!

Janice Burns & Jon Doran are an award-winning Anglo-Scottish duo who came together after discovering a shared love of traditional music. Their songs tell vivid stories about the nature of life and our place in the world. SOLD OUT

You go beneath some scaffolding, through a couple of doors, turn left and suddenly there's a different vista in front of you. Fairy lights, huge Desmond Baldry local landscapes, there's Books and Prints, an array of tables. Even a real piano. A counter. And quite likely, a smiling Piers. It all draws you in.

The Grit is an inviting place, which is odd as it's housed inside a brutal fortress County Court constructed in 1989, then closed twenty seven years later.

#LowestoftSKYLINE Challenge #2 because there is a ground level drop of over 10m between the top of the High street and the bottom, if we positioned each building accurately placing the Town Hall was at ground level (bottom of the screen) then Old Devereux building would be mostly underground! So we need to subtlety adjust each building image to ensure the Skyline page works correctly and makes maximum use of the screen area. This has a knock on effect when sizing each building correctly relative to each other, more on this next week. Launch date Sat 13/1/24
 

#ourfallenlowestoft FEATURED IN BBC NATIONAL MAGAZINE! Current issue of “Who Do You Think You Are?  Special thanks to Lowestoft Town Council and everyone who has generously shared their photos and memories with us. 

https://ourfallen.lowestoftoldandnow.org 

True Colours is a new group for the LGBTQ+ (over 18) community in Lowestoft. We meet socially once a month at The Kirkley Centre and we also organise walking trips, days out and other events for the LGBTQ+
community.

Without doubt, the biggest technical challenge for retrofitting historic buildings, such as Lowestoft Town Hall, is accommodating plant and services. Air-source heat pumps (ASHP) cannot be placed in basements, unlike traditional boilers, as they need air (obviously). They also must be visually and acoustically screened. Read more CREDIT: architectsjournal.co.uk
 

The first challenge is that many High Street buildings are so tall that even standing the other side of the street it isn’t possible to fit it all in! So as you can see in this example you have to take at an angle and then correct the perspective, add a very wide border to avoid losing any building details!. (Apple Photos > Edit > Crop > Vertical ) Having rechecked its height relative to the adjoining buildings we can then add it into the Skyline project. Only 152 still to do!

Front Bar. Triangle Tavern. Book Sale in aid of North Lowestoft Men's Shed

#LowestoftSKYLINE! For our next project we are celebrating the wonderful architecture we STILL have in Lowestoft and particularly in the Historic High Street. It is easy to look at a tired shop front and concentrate on what has been lost when if we would only LOOK UP we would see that 95% is still there and worthy of celebration and further investigation. To be launched this January and with wonderful insights written by local historian David Butcher, high resolution photos and links to Historic England. More to follow :-)

The History of the Land of Hope and Dreams

North Lowestoft Men's Shed is currently residing in a steel shed on the wasteland just to the west of Lowestoft Central Station's car park.

This is what we know of the land's history so far.

So far as we have discovered, there were no buildings on the land prior to the arrival of the railway in 1847.

However, the easternmost edge of Lake Lothing was there, and there may have been a quayside of some description – or maybe it was marshland?

Soon after 1947 siding was built

In 2019 Katie Carmichael wrote a research report on the shopfronts which survive on Lowestoft High Street display elements of styles and materials typical of their time, from the 1840s to the present day, whilst the evidence for lost historic shopfronts helps us to understand the character of the High Street over time.  

Local community group #We Are Here Lowestoft (#WAHL) has had a significant influence on our MP, Peter Aldous, and on this government's response to the Climate Change Emergency.

The Government has been forcing through parliament its Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill. Some intense lobbying of politicians over several years resulted in several important amendments being inserted. In a classic to-and-fro between the House of Commons and the House of Lords the amendments were removed in the Commons and re-instated in the Lords. 

 A new feature of the website is that from any High Street building page you can see it in the context of where it is in the street, relative to other buildings via a link (RHS or bottom) that takes you to the correct position in our street stroll! e.g. https://loan28.lowestoftoldandnow.org/58-high-street#history 

It even knows which of the two strolls to show it on, the east side or west side.. clever LOL

best wishes - Joe

Map of all the designated cycling routes round Lowestoft, and lots of other information, including bike shops and useful addresses.

Click on the link below and the map will open in a separate window. Use the 'back' button to return here. You can download it, too.

Some of the Bike Shops listed on the map no longer exist. Below is list of local shops that do!

Dunx Cycles
Bicycle store in Lowestoft, England
100 High St, Lowestoft NR32 1XW

01502 218118Website

Lowdown Creates Festival Hoedown

Lowestoft's culture zine, Lowdown, took a version of itself to FolkEast (August 17 – 20), and produced three editions in three days, plus a super-fast late-late Final, complete with a World Cup report!

If you were on Lowestoft's sunny South Beach on 28th August you may have seen people writing in the sand. It was a huge postcard to Rishi Sunak, our current Prime Minister. 

“Dear Rishi, hear our voice, save our beach, Floods 1953. Love, Lowestoft xxx”.

Many people watched and commented, and some Lowdown postcards – Lowdown's favourite social media – were completed. Being a holiday town, it wasn't just locals. 

The period of consultation was only 16 days. Get your comments in. See link below.

East Suffolk Council have announced their plans for the Battery Green car park and surrounding area.

The design team are Norwich-based architects Chaplin Farrant and Hemingway Design.

On Wednesday 4th October they presented a small exhibition showcasing the plans for us, the potential users, to examine.

It's not hard to think this is a Good Idea.

What do over 2000 casualties look like (large file)? As a spreadsheet, it looks interesting. Plot the home address to a street map, and the impact is sobering in its power.

The software we use could not cope with it on a single map without crashing, so we had to  slice it into THREE sections.

Sat, Dec. 2, 2023 10:00am — 3:00pm Join the festivities with our Christmas Market. The market is part of the build up to the Lowestoft Christmas Light Switch-On

It's not all that often that we can congratulate local councils.

Lowestoft Town Council has – it seems – listened to people and made some sensible decisions.

They had proposed bringing down the Triangle sails. Contentious, but not outrageous. This has been done. 

But they also proposed removing three of the four trees gracing the Triangle. There weren't many in the area who understood this idea. And they complained and objected.

North Lowestoft Men's Shed (aka NLMS) continues to consolidate its base. In this case, building a patio.

Using gravel-mesh as the patio base our next step is to spread gravel over it all. This will create a solid and secure surface on which to put our donated garden and chair set to catch the last of the summer sun.

We've also been donated high-quality kitchen cupboards by Lowestoft Tile Company in Wilde Street. A piece of work-surface has been attached to a metal table frame found abandoned in the High Street to create a work table.

We have a flag, too.

The Lowestoft Old and Now High Street Stroll

Creating the Stroll is technically quite difficult, and we use several different pieces of software and some specific coding to make it work. 

The basic idea is to reproduce a walk along Lowestoft's Historic High Street. Simples, eh.. We wanted to show it as it is, and simultaneously include historical information about the buildings. ( WEST side, EAST side, more )

Reported rumours that Triangle Trees were for the chop turn out to be true – sort of.

LO&N published on Friday 11th a story which noted rumours that the four trees in front of the Sails were coming down.

We wrote that clearly this was unlikely, as Lowestoft Town Council (LTC) recognised Climate Emergency and was an Earth Protector.

We had asked LTC what was going on.

Now, we have more facts.

Use It All, Lowestoft Old and Now Community Website, Food Savvy/Suffolk Recycle, Most Easterly Community Group, Friends of Dip Farm and Lowestoft Town Council all had stalls under the Triangle Sails on Saturday the 18th September 2021.

Lowestoft Heritage Open Days Week seems to have been a tremendous success, again. An amazing amount of effort and work put into it right across Lowestoft, mostly by volunteers. An astonishing 115 events were listed.

At the junction of St Peter's Street and the High Street there's a big sign saying 'Pedestrian Zone'. It looks quite clear to me but cars regularly pass by it. There were two signs but one of the signs was removed about a couple of weeks ago. Don't know why, or by whom.

The cars, the vans, even the bicycles, in that triangular area and down the road have long caused problems to people who foolishly think that when a big official sign says 'Pedestrian Zone' that's what it means.

Energetic Mod/Punk/Britpop London trio who have supported the likes of Blondie, The Libertines, Paul Cook & Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), & more!

One of the key features of this site is its ability to turn all content (that relates to a location) into a dynamic map and then filter it to show similar content together. 

For example we have information about allotments. So if you go to the web address https://loan28.lowestoftoldandnow.org/full/maps/ BUT then add allotments at the end 

https://loan28.lowestoftoldandnow.org/full/maps/allotments you will see (have a guess!) 

Lowestoft is a great place to shop. So whether you are looking for something for your home or maybe (because you deserve it) some pampering and personal care there is plenty of choice! Also if you are planning on eating in (and need supplies) or eating out or cant decide and want a takeaway it is all here.

by John Hadfield is the book for this month. 

Use It All is having to take a break.

We currently do not have anywhere to store collected recyclable material.

We hope to return in October, but in a slightly different form.

Still be collecting...

We will be collecting TetraPaks and possibly medicine blister packs on a regular basis. Other things we used to collect are now fairly easily dropped off at shops and supermarkets.

 'Lowestoft Our Fallen' will feature in the December issue of the Who Do You Think You Are? magazine, the official companion to the successful BBC TV series.

Innovative features of the Our Fallen project include finding 100 casualties who have never before appeared on any memorial and ability to search by postcode (a feature that is already being used by some schools).

Haydn - Nelson Mass and Missa Brevis in F

Monteverdi

Beatus Vir

Yay come along and be involved