NLMS Heritage Open Day

North Lowestoft Men's Shed is open on Wednesday 13th September 11am - 1pm.

BEWARE: The land is uneven, it's full of plants that can rise up and attack ie brambles, and there are no laid paths, BUT it's full of history and we'll be only too glad to stop doing whatever we are doing and chat with visitors!

We've put our new shed on what was the old Cattle Docks in Denmark Road, where livestock was loaded/unloaded. There's not much of the actual dock left, though we do have some large pieces of concrete with steel posts embedded in them, which may have been the main gateway to the loading platform.

A siding ran through the land, almost from the beginning of the railway. There's an OS map from 1884 showing what appears to be a turntable, though we haven't found any evidence on the ground - or anywhere else - for its existence.

Later maps show the development of the tracked area, and the cattle docks are clearly marked on the 1905 OS map.

We're hoping that Aviation historian Bob Collis will add a lot more to our knowledge of the site when he gives his talk (11am Sunday 17th) and walk (Sunday 2pm 17th), as part of Heritage Open Days.