Arnold's Bequest

Located in North Lowestoft, this charity land was bestowed to the people of Lowestoft by Frank Thomas Arnold, in memory of his son, Captain Ferdinand Arnold. The charity was founded by his will that was verified at Norwich on the 3rd February in 1941, five months after his death on the 24th September 1940, Frank Thomas Arnold detailed in the document:

‘In memory of my son, Captain Ferdinand Frank William Arnold of the First Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment, who was killed at Sonnebeke on Saint George’s Day 1915. I device free of all death duties to the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Lowestoft as and for a park or recreation ground for the use and enjoyment of the public. The enclosure of grass land belonging to me, known as the Slopes containing two acres and three roods of thereabouts lying in the Borough of Lowestoft and having frontage to High Street Lighthouse Score and Whapload Road, together with the dwellinghouse adjoining the said land and known as Number 1 High Street.’

CREDIT: Lowestoft Town Council