Lowestoft

Lowestoft’s convalescent home was a gift to the town in 1877 from William Birbeck, who was himself ill – he died in 1897. Here some of the staff and patients are having a game of croquet on the front lawn while others look on, perhaps enjoying the benefits of a sunny day.
An extract from from"Times Gone By".

Lowestoft’s convalescent home was a gift to the town in 1877 from William Birbeck, who was himself ill – he died in 1897. Here some of the staff and patients are having a game of croquet on the front lawn while others look on, perhaps enjoying the benefits of a sunny day.
An extract from from"Countryside Poems".

At this time, close to the end of the Victorian era, staying fully clothed on the beach was very much the norm, with sand castles and donkey rides the prime amusements for the children; the adults relax in deck chairs, and shelter from the wind behind umbrellas. Lowestoft can be bracing any time of year...
An extract from from"East Anglia Pocket Album".

St Mary’s, one of the largest in Suffolk, is not a typical Suffolk wool church, and has an elegant lead spire. Inside is the 600-year-old Angelus Bell, one of the oldest in the country, which is inscribed ‘Ave Maria Gracia Plena Dominus Tecum’. Perhaps the man who made the bell had other things on his mind when it came to putting in the inscription, as he forgot to invert the words laterally in the mould, and they appear backwards on the finished article!
An extract from from"Ispwich Pocket Album".

A 20th-century means of pro- ducing power shares the banks of the Orwell with vessels which harness one of the oldest forms of power. With shallow mudflats along the banks of the tidal Orwell estuary, moored sailing boats end up on their keels twice a day.
An extract from from"Ispwich Pocket Album".