Lowestoft Lighthouse Timeline
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1670's The Lowestoft Lights were re-built again. A few years previously John Clayton had erected a coal-light a couple of miles north at Corton.
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1676 Samuel Pepys was elected a Master of the Trinity Brethren, and immediately sanctioned a new Lowestoft lighthouse. -
1706 the remaining Low Light ceased operation, possibly because "...the sea overwhelmed it..." (p97 Lights of East Anglia by Neville Long, 1983)
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1778 A 'spangle light' was tested for one night on Lowestoft Low Light by several Trinity Elders sailing out to sea. The design was never permanently used.
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1796 High Light fitted with "eleven Argand burners set in the focus of silvered reflectors" (p102 Lights of East Anglia by Neville Long, 1983)
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1832 Pakefield Lighthouse (red light) built to help navigate through the channel between the Barnard and Newcombe Sands. The station was made of brick.
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1832 Low Light rebuilt with brick foundation to stop it falling into the sea
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1850 Pakefield Light House moved to Kessingland because the channel had shifted. The Pakefield LH tower is still there, in the holiday centre. The light was finally extinguished in 1864.
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As the sandbanks shifted and Pakefield lighthouse was declared redundant and closed in 1864.
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1867 A completely new Lowestoft Low Light, made of wrought iron. It was designed to be moveable. -
1872 - 74 The present High Light was built. It had a new optical revolving light, flashing at half-minute intervals.
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1881 Low Light now also flashes. And had to be moved 80 yards inland, because of erosion.
