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| Low Light Moved inland | 1894 Low Light moved inland again. / 9 April, 2024 | |
| Low Light finally extinguished | 
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1923 Low Light extinguished, as the Stanford Channel was no more. / 9 April, 2024 |
| Lowestoft High Light House fully automatic | 1974 the High Light is now fully automatic. / 9 April, 2024 | |
| A Brief History of Lowestoft Trams | 
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Early in 1903 construction started of the Tramway from Florence Road in Pakefield to Yarmouth Road in north Lowestoft. / 9 April, 2024 |
| 1803 Lighthouse Low Light rebuilt with larger reflector | 9 April, 2024 | |
| Low Light rebuilt with brick foundation | 1832 Low Light rebuilt with brick foundation to stop it falling into the sea / 9 April, 2024 | |
| Pakefield get their own Lighthouse | 1832 Pakefield Lighthouse (red light) built to help navigate through the channel between the Barnard and Newcombe Sands. The station was made of brick. / 9 April, 2024 | |
| Pakefield Light House moved | 1850 Pakefield Light House moved to Kessingland because the channel had shifted. The Pakefield LH tower is still there, in the holiday centre. The light was finally extinguished in 1864. / 9 April, 2024 | |
| Pepys builds the High Light | 
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1676 Samuel Pepys was elected a Master of the Trinity Brethren, and immediately sanctioned a new Lowestoft lighthouse. / 9 April, 2024 |
| Christopher Saxton map showed | 
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Christopher Saxton map showed Easton Ness as the most easterly point of Great Britain. Over the next decades, the action of the sea caused the salient to migrate north, to Lowestoft Ness. / 9 April, 2024 |
| Pakefield Lighthouse Extinguished for good | As the sandbanks shifted and Pakefield lighthouse was declared redundant and closed in 1864. / 9 April, 2024 | |
| Low Light washed away? | 1706 the remaining Low Light ceased operation, possibly because "...the sea overwhelmed it..." (p97 Lights of East Anglia by Neville Long, 1983) / 9 April, 2024 | |
| New wooden moveable Low Light built | 9 April, 2024 | |
| Low Light Moved | 1735 Low Light moved because of changes to Stan(d)ford Channel / 9 April, 2024 | |
| Lowestoft High Light 1914 and World War One | 
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This postcard is amazingly franked 31st July 1914, just four days before Britain declared war . The message reads "Having a [illegible] time here. / 9 April, 2024 |