AREAS and TYPES

A good deal has been written about the scores over the years - not all of it accurate. What follows here is an account of these footways, working from north to south, and looking at them in both a topographical and historical context. The main sources used for the study are a Manor Roll of 1618 (which gives a complete account of landholding in the parish, together with location and tenancy stated) and a series of Manor Court minute books dating from 1582-85 and 1616-1756.

Lowdown Creates Festival Hoedown

Lowestoft's culture zine, Lowdown, took a version of itself to FolkEast (August 17 – 20), and produced three editions in three days, plus a super-fast late-late Final, complete with a World Cup report!

Sometimes we have big household items which we need to replace. Quite often the replacements are second-hand, and households are left with large things which are difficult to get rid of, especially if you don't have access to a van or a trailer or something. And so sometimes they get dumped in back alleys or on the street. Fly-tipping. No one wants that.

Lowestoft Town Council has a remedy. They are funding a trial scheme 'Bulky Waste Free Collection and Disposal' service.

The period of consultation was only 16 days. Get your comments in. See link below.

East Suffolk Council have announced their plans for the Battery Green car park and surrounding area.

The design team are Norwich-based architects Chaplin Farrant and Hemingway Design.

On Wednesday 4th October they presented a small exhibition showcasing the plans for us, the potential users, to examine.

It's not hard to think this is a Good Idea.

It's not all that often that we can congratulate local councils.

Lowestoft Town Council has – it seems – listened to people and made some sensible decisions.

They had proposed bringing down the Triangle sails. Contentious, but not outrageous. This has been done. 

But they also proposed removing three of the four trees gracing the Triangle. There weren't many in the area who understood this idea. And they complained and objected.

Once known as Gallows Score, with manorial documentation of c. 1720 relating to property ownership and transfer in this location showing both terms in use - which would seem to suggest that this was the time of change from one to the other. It has been postulated that the name perhaps relates to a Mr. Gallow, who lived nearby - but no one of that name has ever been found as a resident in the manorial records and an earlier association with a gibbet-pole (rather than the apparatus of execution itself) is feasible. 

Northernmost of the scores and originally known as Gunton Score probably because of its proximity to the boundary with that parish. It seems to have become “The Ravine” at some point during the latter part of the 19th century - perhaps coinciding with the creation of Belle Vue Park, which opened in 1874 on having been created as a public amenity from part of the old North Common. 

Read David Butcher's FULL Scores article

See also Lost End of High St