133b High street and 50 Dukes Head Street

The building started out life as Brett's and Sons and he sold house furnishings, but by the 1950's the building was taken over by Percy Wigg. He opened this business soon after the Second World War in Brett's and Sons old building on the corner of the High Street and Dukes Head Street. Percy Wigg along with this furnishing shop had premises in Oulton Broad at Bridge Road, and a coke and coal merchant's business in St Peters Street. Around the 1980's Percy retired and the business closed. In the 1980's my friend David van Zandt purchased the building and he set about converting it into flats and a shop unit. Once it had been converted it became a restaurant called Moby Dick and Brady's but in 2016 the shop is now Red Rose, finest Indian cuisine and takeaway.

CREDIT: Lowestoft High Street, The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker by Crispin Hook 2016 Get the book