Garage High street
History
One of Lowestoft's Our Fallen lived here...
Watson’sGarage/ BP
In the 1850's the site was the location of the Cunningham School. It was in 1926 that the Lowestoft Corporation bought the old Cunningham School, pulled it down and sold the site to Messrs P.W. Watson and Sons. During the Second World War the garage was used by the Royal Navy to store and maintain their vehicles until it was destroyed in the Fokker Wolf Raid on the town in 1943 on the 12th May. In an phone book advert from 1967 the garage was described as "Watsons Lowestoft Ltd, est 1880 (Nuffield Services) motor agent and Engineers (North end garage)." In the 1980's the garage became Trimoco, and shortly after the garage became the filling station as can be seen in the picture on the left. CREDIT:Crispin Hook
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