Nature

Meet at the carpark at the end of Grand Avenue, near Deans Beans

Join Suffolk Beach Cleans for an Easter Monday Beach Clean to work off all the chocolate eggs!

We usually clean for an hour (weather depending!) As always everyone is welcome and all equipment will be provided - but if you have your own gloves and litter pickers please bring them. Dogs Welcome! Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

Please let us know if you intend to come as it helps for getting equipment ready.

We look forward to 'seaing' you on the beach!

In May 2023, after its public launch in April, members gathered on the land. These photos show the land, and us starting to clear the spot we'd chosen as the site of our shed.

Some photos from March 2025

The Mayfly, burgeoning coffee and cultural High Street hub, is turning some derelict land into, well, something else. A community garden? A mini-wildlife reserve? Butterfly haven? Part of a grand scheme to upgrade the whole of the cliff-face? It'll be up to those who get involved, said Piers Colby, le patron of The Mayfly and community catalyst.

On what had turned out to be  General Election Day, The Mayfly Garden Group welcomed Dr Ian Bedford and Dannny Suggit, Production Manager of PlantGrow Ltd

The Shed continues. We regularly meet on Wednesdays at 10am on land next to Lowestoft Station carpark.

For many years, the piece of land was a siding and cattle dock for the railway. We've found eleven posts. They are very robust – huge steel bars (possibly rail track) embedded in concrete. We have tried many ways of chopping the concrete off. We have failed. Up until now.

Pictured are the larvae of the brown-tailed moth. There's several colonies on the Land of Hope and Dreams. They look like spider-web nurseries, but they are actually “ … a silken tent”. Some will be pleased to know they eat the young leaves of brambles, amongst others.

The hairs on the larvae can cause irritation to the skin, about the same strength as a stinging nettle, and on rare instances can cause severe skin reaction and rash. So best not to give them a friendly stroke.

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.

The crime scene is at the junction of Links Road with Gunton Cliff (was Esplanade). A tree has been neatly felled. The illegal, as described by Lowestoft Town Council, tree removal has caused much consternation. LTC have acted fast. The police are investigating.

Smaller trees have been removed nearby, as well. The trees are probably self-set sycamores.

The felling took place in Gunton Ward, which is bounded on the south by The Ravine.

Festival of Light has become The Beach of Dreams – a spectacular installation of 500 individually designed silk flags on Lowestoft South Beach on 26th and 27th June.

Over fifty people were lucky enough to get free seeds and compost this weekend, courtesy of Most Easterly Community Group.

'Help Make the High Street Bloom' gave away seeds for people to brighten up their windowsills and balconies and gardens. So later in the year there will be new begonias and sunflowers and even radishes greeting the sun, not to mention glorious cornflowers and rampant ranunculus.