89 High Street
Current
89
High Street
Lowestoft
NR32 1QA
United Kingdom
Spice Den is a traditional family run restaurant, situated in the market square. We offer a wide variety of traditional Asian dishes guaranteed to tantalise the taste buds. You will be welcomed as our guests and treated to the finest hospitality when you dine.
History
No89 in 1865 was Adam and Smith, Baker's and Confectioner's, but by 1900 Thomas Francis Burgess had taken over the business from Adam and Smith. In the Kelly's Directory of 1932 George W Porter had taken over and was running his Confectionery business from this address until in 1940 when Hubert Bingham started his Pastry shop from No89. When the 2nd picture was taken in the late 1960's, early 1970's it was Bingham Restaurant coffee house. In the 3rd picture you will see an advert for Greenacre Butchery and Freezer centre taken from the advertiser in 1983 but since then it has been a number of restaurants such as Lorenzo's Italian Restaurant, Dragon house Chinese restaurant and in 2016 Spice Den Indian restaurant.
CREDIT: Lowestoft High Street, The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker by Crispin Hook 2016 Get the book
Bingham's Restaurant Advertisement from Lowestoft Corporation Street Map circa 1954
Architecture
Back in the 1950s & 60s, No. 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
Memories
I found George Adams in 1831 in the High Street, a Baker by trade, in the Lowestoft Directory of 1838 he was stated as a Ship bread maker and Confectioner. He was still in the High Street in 1841 with his wife Ann. George died November 1850_ I also have from the P.O. Directory 1869 of Cambs, Norfolk and Suffolk that there was still a Bakers and Confectioners run by Adams and Smith(Anns married niece, still at 89 High Street, Lowestoft, I’m wondering and muddled how the public house comes into the story! CREDIT: Julie Grove
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