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133b High street and 50 Dukes Head Street

    Current
    MarkG Bistro Wine bar
    Interior
    Interior
    Delicious crab supper
    Delicious crab supper

    133b
    High street and 50 Dukes Head Street
    Lowestoft
    NR32 1JY
    United Kingdom

    MarkG Bistro Wine Bar uses local, rustic, seasonal and sustainable British ingredients, with menus created on a daily basis offering the freshest market dishes. 

    History
     CREDIT:BurtCollyer 134HighStColebyWiggC
    CREDIT:BurtCollyer 134HighStColebyWiggC
     1989 Eastway Dukes Head Street CREDIT;Crispin Hook
    1989 Eastway Dukes Head Street CREDIT;Crispin Hook
    Holy Guacamole 2021
    Holy Guacamole 2021

    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

    Architecture
    133b High Street
    Credit: Joe Thompson

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