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Gary
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19th Century Lowestoft « Posted: 11 September 2009 at 08:42 AM »
There are some interesting drawings HERE of 19th Century Lowestoft for which you need to scroll across as opposed to up and down! I particularly love the lighthouse drawings that depict the old beach village houses below, it was certainly a much more interesting time! Smiley
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Re: 19th Century Lowestoft « Reply #1 Posted: 11 September 2009 at 09:10 AM »
Very interesting set of pictures, well discovered, Gary, & thanks for posting.

I've often wondered what Lowestoft looked like at the time of those pictures.  Scetches of that era aren't often seen, more's the pity. 

One view I would be interested in would be of what is now the bridge area of Lowestoft before the bridge was actually built, (that's the Harbour bridge).

Thanks again.
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Re: 19th Century Lowestoft « Reply #2 Posted: 11 September 2009 at 09:37 AM »
I don't recall ever seeing any pictures of Lowestoft before the swing bridge not even in books, but I am sure there must be some .... somewhere?  Huh Smiley
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Re: 19th Century Lowestoft « Reply #3 Posted: 11 September 2009 at 11:14 AM »
What great pics. Thanks Gary!

I wonder if the 2nd pic is of a real local sea rescue?
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Re: 19th Century Lowestoft « Reply #4 Posted: 11 September 2009 at 11:49 AM »
Looking at the drawing it's fair to say that this could well be the case as the detail is very realistic, almost as though it was drawn from a news event of the time perhaps!
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Re: 19th Century Lowestoft « Reply #5 Posted: 11 September 2009 at 12:39 PM »
Quote from: Gary on 11 September 2009 at 11:49 AM
Looking at the drawing it's fair to say that this could well be the case as the detail is very realistic, almost as though it was drawn from a news event of the time perhaps!

Yes. And what an heroic effort they're all putting in.
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Re: 19th Century Lowestoft « Reply #6 Posted: 11 September 2009 at 03:35 PM »
Lovely little set of pics Gary St Johns was a lovely church how they could have pulled it down I'll never know and the royal hotel is where we older babes spent our rocking days
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Re: 19th Century Lowestoft « Reply #7 Posted: 11 September 2009 at 03:50 PM »
Yes it's a real shame that a lot of our historic buildings were lost and St. John's Church was quite a significant building architecturally. There was a lot of damage to the building caused by the weather and much of this was attributed to the floods of 1953. However, I am sure that if such a decision were to be made today, then this building like many others would have been saved.
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Re: 19th Century Lowestoft « Reply #8 Posted: 11 September 2009 at 07:44 PM »
Absolutely loved those old pictures-just spent ages trolling through Suffolk and Oxfordshire. Thanks for the link
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Re: 19th Century Lowestoft « Reply #9 Posted: 11 September 2009 at 09:09 PM »
Great set of drawings of the town, two pictures I can't figure out where they are/were,  St. Peter's Chapel and The Grove.
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