108 High Street
Current
Wheatsheaf
108
High Street
Lowestoft
NR32 1XW
United Kingdom
Chloe Ray offers a friendly atmosphere of old school drinking with a new school feel.
History
One of Lowestoft's Our Fallen lived here... Formerly No. 4 Old Nelson Street
No108 The Wheatsheaf started out its life as the Herring Fisheries and belonged to one of the three beach companies. By 1900 the pub had changed it's name to the Spread Eagle Hotel and was run by Frederick Golder. In the Kelly's Directory for 1932 the pub was still the Spread Eagle Hotel but the landlord had changed to Mr Charles Samsom. By 1998 its name had changed again, this time it was called The Carousel but in 2016 the pub was known as the Wheatsheaf. In 2024 it was renamed back to The Carousel
Spread Eagle, 108 High Street. (Previously, Herring Fishery Inn). (Later, Carousel, Wheatsheaf) * Spreadeagle Hotel, 108 High Street, Lowestoft Residents at this address. 1891/Samuel G Marler/Licensed Victualler/36/St Pancras, London/Census 1891/Henry Gibbons/Father in Law/65/Norwich, Norfolk/Census 1891/Maria Gibbons/Mother in Law/61/Pakefield, Suffolk/Census 1891/Eliza Moll/Domestic Servant/19/Somerton, Norfolk/Census 1891/Edwin Culpeck/Boarder, Fisherman/20/Wickham Market, Suffolk/Census 1900 - Frederick Golder - Kelly’s Directory. 108 High Street. 1900 - Mr. F. Golder. Lowestoft Journal, 1st Sep 1900. 1901 - Frederick Golder (Age 32, Licenced Victualler, 108 High Street) RG13-1804-35-15 1905 - William Kilrick Hall - Lowestoft Cemetery Records. (Wife died) 1911 - William Hall (Age 51, Licensed Victualler, 108 High Street) - 1911 Census. 1911/William Hall/Licensed Victualler, widow/51/Lowestoft, Suffolk/Census 1911/Martha Armes/Domestic Servant/25/Lowestoft, Suffolk/Census 1911/Ethel Armes/Domestic Servant/17/Lowestoft, Suffolk/Census 1912 - William Kilwick Hall, Spreadeagle Hotel, 108 High Street. - Kelly’s Directory of Suffolk. 1914 - Matilda Armes (Age 65,) Lowestoft Cemetery. 1917 - William Archer Armes. (St. Margaret’s Church, War Memorial). 1922 - William Kilwick Hall - Kelly’s Directory. 1925/William Kilwick Hall/../../../Kellys Directory 1930 - Charles Sansom. 1947 - George William Leggett. 1970 - Leonard Baxter (Age 50, Publican) Kirkley Cemetery. 1976 - Terry Ludlam (Suffolk Heritage Direct). 1982 - Glen Cairns (Suffolk Heritage Direct). 1984 - January, closed with a sign stating “To Let” (Suffolk Heritage Direct). 1985 - Shirley Clark (Suffolk Heritage Direct). 1985 - Glen Mitchell Cairns - Bankruptcy. 1988 - Tony Sissen (Suffolk Heritage Direct). 1990 - James Bugg (age 32) and Sylvia Bugg (Name changed to the Carousel) * Provided by Ian White ** Provided By Colin Ager credit HistoryofSuffolk
Architecture
Nos. 105, 106, 107 & 108 - a single plot with one house in 1614, when it was occupied by Philip Hales (boatwright). By 1633, it was in the hands of Thomas Hawes (boatwright) - remaining with this family into the 18th century. The plot underwent subdivision under the Hawes family and, by 1720, there were four houses on the site - owned by Mrs. Deborah Ashby, who had remarried into the Ashby family of mariners and merchants after the death of her husband Thomas (also a mariner). He made his will in March 1686, but has no burial recorded in the parish registers. Possibly, lost at sea. CREDIT: David Butcher
Right from the 16th, 17th century Lowestoft, this actually was known as the south end. The three buildings we're just interested in, and there's a lot of buildings here to look at, are The Wheatsheaf and the two buildings immediately to the north of there. Until 1890 they weren't actually considered part of High Street but old Nelson Street. Back in 1870s. So this is almost the identical view. You can see now what's now the Triangle Market was fully developed buildings and shops on the west side, the left-hand side as you look these are the buildings that stood there before the street was widened in the 1880s. The three buildings on the right nearest the camera The Herring Fishery pub now the Wheatsheaf, then the little shop which was Albion House, and then this is two properties in actual fact, there's two front doors so these three properties have changed very radically from the ones that you saw in the earlier photograph. DEAN — Although they're still three different properties they've not put them together. IVAN — No, they've not put them together. This is now hairdressers and it's been rebuilt, the top has been rebuilt but certainly the shopfront is still there. The Wheatsheaf as it is today, back in the day, Herring Fishery, has been totally rebuilt as well it looks nothing like that today and of course this lovely house, early 19th if not late 18th century has totally gone and it was replaced for a while by this building. CREDIT: Ivan Bunn from transcript - Poetry People - High Street Histories
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I knew that building as the…
I knew that building as the Spread Eagle pub, just across the high street from the ATC headquarters. Had my first legal drink in there!
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