1850 book - Lowestoft with details of the new route to Denmark

“Lowestoft has of late assumed so prominent a status, not merely among the new watering-places which have acquired more or less popularity within the last few years, chiefly owing to the extension of facilities for railway travelling, but as the entrepôt of the important traffic now being developed between Northern Europe and this country, that a " Guide" to it should be prefaced with something a little more discursive than a purely local introduc-With this view. thererore, it is proposed to offer a brief sketch of the route between the Metropolis and the coast of Suffolk, vid the Eastern Counties Railway, the more especially as it is to the construction of that line, in connection with the Norfolk, that the present prosperity of Lowestoft, and the very flattering estimation in which it is held by the pleasure seekers of the eastern portions of England, are mainly owing. Few railways possess so many objects of interest, either historically or pictorially--facts that are made abundantly evident in a publication issued simultaneously with this, profusely illustrated, and somewhat similar in character, and the outline of whose plan we intend adopting in the annexed summary.

Starting, then, from the Bishopsgate Station in London, the traveller passes through a district redundant in national incident; Bow and Stratford standing near the oldest of our Roman highways, also spoken of by Chaucer, the latter forming the great depôt of the locomotive engines ; Hackney, which gave its name to carriages for occasional hire, and formerly inhabited by the ancient families of De Vere, Zouch, Brooke, Rich, and Rowe ;

-Tottenham, celebrated for its Cross, and as the favourite resting place of rare old.. [extract from introduction] 

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