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95 98 High Street

    Current
    Lavash Kitchen

    95
    High Street
    Lowestoft
    NR32 1XW
    United Kingdom

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    History
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    CREDIT: Crispin Hook 1996
    CREDIT: Crispin Hook 1996

    This shop is made up from four different shops which had been knocked through into one large unit, as far back as 1865 No95 was the offices of the Suffolk Mercury and John Thomas Hendly was their chief reporter. In 1876 No96 was Mr William and Henry Brand shop which they ran as a Tailors and Outfitters. In 1865-1876 No97-98 was Pratt and Thirle who operated the shop as a Linen Drapers and Silk Merchants but by 1900 No 98 had become separated from No97 and had become Edwin Starling's Hairdressers. It wasn't until 1932 when it was recorded in the Kelly's Directory that the buildings had all been knocked together to form The London Drapery Stores. During the 1960's Tailorite Ltd had moved in and were selling House Furnishings. As you can see in the 1st picture, the  just before it was turned into O'Reillys Irish Bar. In 1999 O'Reilly made history by getting into the Guiness Book of Records for that year for having the U.K's longest bar which measured at 128ft. 5 inches. O'Reillys had a number of shop front facade's running down one side of the building inside and when Grizzleys came about in 2006 I had to dress one shop front inside as a sweet shop and install ten 20p sweet machines in front of it. That was back in the day I ran a vending machine business. Before it became Grizzleys and then the Prospect it was part of the Greenfields empire and most recently Ashby's Kitchen and by 2016 Marmaris Turkish Grill.

    CREDIT: Lowestoft High Street, The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker by Crispin Hook 2016 Get the book

    Architecture
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    CREDIT Joe Thompson 2023

    Nos. 94, 95 & 96 - a house subdivided into two parts, owned in 1618 by Elizabeth Pacy (fisherman’s widow) - previously held by John Palmer, who disposed of it to her in 1608. Remained in the Pacy family’s possession into the 18th century, when it was in the hands of Margaret Tubby (widow) - she having come into the property in two stages(1679 & 1703). Her maiden name was Pacy and she was still in occupancy in 1720. CREDIT: David Butcher 

     

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