88 High Street
Current
88
High Street
Lowestoft
United Kingdom
History
Around the 1850's No88 was the Jolly Maltster Public House, but listed at this address in 1865 Henry Mobbs Jr was running his Butchery business. (His brother William ran the other shop in Tanning street) By 1932 the Kelly's Directory has the Singer Sewing Machine Co at the address, but by 1967 G and PJames was running his Ladies Hairdressers from this address. Panda Books started off at this address in the 1970's but by 1978 it had moved to bigger premises at No117, after that it became a health food shop and then finally Royston's Curios, as you can see in the picture on the right taken in 1998.
CREDIT: Lowestoft High Street, The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker by Crispin Hook 2016 Get the book
Architecture
Back in the 1950s & 60s, No. [88] 89 was Bingham’s Restaurant - and going further back to the 1850s & 60s, it was the “Jolly Maltster” public house - hence, the name of the score next door. The original building of all on this site, dating back to the first half of the 14th century, would have been a dwelling-house of some kind. The Manor Roll of 1618 lists a house belonging to Thomas King, but it was unlikely to have been the original one. A hundred years later, in c. 1720, it was still a house of some kind occupied by Stephen Hawes (mariner) and is described as a “small tenement” with a quarter acre of land, with use of a well and right-of-way to the Denes. CREDIT: David Butcher
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