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Garage High street

    Current
    Shell

    244
    High Street
    Lowestoft
    NR32 1HU
    United Kingdom

    History
    Cunningham School 1877 CREDIT: Ford Jenkins
    Cunningham School 1877 CREDIT: Ford Jenkins
     1983 CREDIT:Russell Walker
    1983 CREDIT:Russell Walker
     Class photograph at Cunningham School
    Class photograph at Cunningham School
     High Street
    High Street
     Lowestoft by G.H.E. but probably taken in the late 1890s
    Lowestoft by G.H.E. but probably taken in the late 1890s
     Class photograph at Cunningham School
    Class photograph at Cunningham School
     High Street
    High Street
     Lowestoft by G.H.E. but probably taken in the late 1890s
    Lowestoft by G.H.E. but probably taken in the late 1890s
     1986
    1986
     1943 CREDIT:Bob Collis
    1943 CREDIT:Bob Collis
    1900
    1900 CREDIT:Pip Denwood
    The old Datson garage before BP
    The old Datson garage before BP CREDIT:Crispin Hook

    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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