40A High Street
Current
Golden Phoenix
40A
High Street
Lowestoft
NR32 1HY
United Kingdom
History
No40 was located in the gap between the Golden Phoenix and Broadland Aquatic's with a small passage running along side Broadland Aquatic's leading to Mariners Score. You can see in the 2nd picture, the Seaview Boarding House and the gold balls of the pawn brokers which was located at number 40. In 1865 Samuel Hawood owned the pawnbrokers, in the 1880's the business had passed to Mr William Scarlett, Around 1900 the business was purchased by Mr Smith along with the Seaview Hotel from where he ran his furnishing business. When No40 was hit by a bomb in the raids during the Second World War, Mr Smith had to move his pawn brokers to 38 London Road North which left the High Street without a pawn brokers for the first time in 100 years. Reported in the paper in 1865 Samuel Hawood, nearly signed his death warrant when he accepted a pistol as a pledge, Unredeemed, the pistol was entered in an auction in Norwich. The lot was called, the porter picked up the pistol and accidentally pulled the trigger and shot Mr. Hawood through the head. He fell, seriously wounded, but he survived.
CREDIT: Lowestoft High Street, The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker by Crispin Hook 2016 Get the book
Russell Walker » Lowestoft In the 60's Who recalls when it was like this in the High Street, please? The demolition of 38 High Street, Lowestoft which was formerly Smith's Complete House Furnishers Store. The gutted building next to it was Smith's also and advertised Baby Carriages and Furniture. Rebuilt in the 1960s into 4 shop units with overhead maisonettes, the end unit being The Golden Phoenix Chinese Takeaway.
Ronnie Cook's Butchers is to the right at 41 High Street with Mariners Score and Gaskins Wholesaler, Confectioner & Greengrocer shop
(right) is at No. 36. Photo was taken in 1957.
(Photographer unknown).
CREDIT Photos from Russell Walker's post
Architecture
Mr Smith also had the two buildings to the south of that and if you look at again quite often if you're studying the history of buildings that you want to see how they've changed look up to the roof lines and you can see here this is a perfect example judging by the front it's one continuous building but if you look at the roof line you can see it's definitely was once two separate buildings and there are clues there and when this was the temperance hotel Mr Smith had a furniture shop and a pawn shop here, so he obviously went up market and booked up the hotel when it closed and moved his business into there. so yeah, but of course all of that as with so many things has changed and they are in the process of being demolished. Look at it today here we've got some rather brutal 1950s architecture. Built in the Late 50s I should think, early 60s, You can see this is where the hotel, Smith's furniture emporium was. CREDIT: Ivan Bunn from transcript - Poetry People - High Street Histories
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