9 High Street

One of Lowestoft's Our Fallen lived here... 

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This photo taken in the late 1940s or early 1950s shows Nos. 7 to 10 High Street not long before they were demolished.  The vacant lot next to No. 7 is the site of No. 6 which has already been demolished.  When the 1911 census was taken it contained 5 rooms and was occupied by a fisherman named William Boggis with his wife, Frances, and their four young children.  It goes without saying that, apart from the approximate location, the property bore no resemblance to the house(s) that stood here in the 17th and 18th centuries. 

NOTES ON Nos. 7 to 9 HIGH STREET
Probably built in the late 18th century Nos. 7, 8 & 9 were probably originally 1 large house. By the early 19th century this house had been sub-divided into three houses to later be numbered 7 – 9 High Street.  In 1841 the site is described as being “3 houses and gardens”, all owned by one Samuel S. Brame (born 1814).  He was a doctor and surgeon who lived with his family in a large house on London Road South.  Nos. 7- 9 were occupied by his tenants. As far as can be ascertained No. 7 contained 4 rooms, as did No.8. No. 9 was said to contain 8 rooms, some of these appear to have been in a “wing” that extended over a garden in the rear.
Nos. 7 to 9 were separate properties until the 1950s when No. 7 expanded into No.8 and the latter ceased to be a separate property (see accompanying photos).
In the early 1960s these three properties (together with No.10) were demolished by the Town Council to extend the public garden to the south.  This garden was created when the buildings here (Nos. 11 to  25) were cleared away after destruction and damage caused by a German air raid on 12th May 1943.
CREDIT:Ivan Bunn

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During the 1960's the house and remaining terrace was struck by lighting and the council pulled down these remaining houses down right up to Arnold House

See also Lost End of High St

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 [Nos. 28 occupied the cleared ground-space of former Nos. 9-10 High Street.] - full list here

28. Isabell Monument – one cottage, with a small piece of ground 24 feet long by 28 wide, and with the use of a passage into the street on the north side of No. 27. Standing to the east of No. 27. Rent, 2d. per annum.

• Mary Savage (née Askew), on surrender of John Harris – 2.4.1645.

• Benjamin & Ann Chapman, on surrender of Mary Savage’s co-heirs – 22.3.1654.

• Isabell Monument, widow, daughter of Benjamin & Ann Chapman (later, Stanford), on surrender of her mother – 11.8.1708.

• Jonathan Belgrave, on surrender of Isabell Monument (mortgage for £8 8s 0d) – 22.9.1708 – debt settled, 7.12.1709.

• Hannah Smithson, widow, on surrender of Isabell Monument (mortgage for £12 12s 0d) – 5.10.1709 – debt settled (no date given).

• James Postle, on surrender of Isabell Monument (mortgage for £16.16s 0d) – 12.12.1711.

• William & Sarah Manthorpe, on the surrender of Isabell Monument – 22.2.1724 [update to listed tenant].

CREDIT:David Butcher