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Garage High street

Current
Shell

244
High Street
Lowestoft
NR32 1HU
United Kingdom

History
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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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