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Ipswich zoom meeting Cllr Carole Jones Contact in bury Suffolk sight meeting + newsletter article 2.5k Scanner - business dir idea 

Meeting with LADIA 

Ambassador event 8th mar John/christine to attend 

Added: 17 January, 2024
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#LowestoftDaysOfChristmas 10th day.. FROM SWAN INN and CROMWELL's HQ to well loved shops in many guises. Nos. 41-42 High Street, as seen today, are replacement buildings for "The Swan" inn, which once occupied the site and served as one of Lowestoft's premier hostelries during the 16th and 17th centuries. It was where Oliver Cromwell stayed overnight on 14 March 1643/44, when he came to Lowestoft (from Cambridge) with a force of cavalry, having heard tell of a shipment of arms either entering or leaving the town (it has never been established which).

Added: 21 December, 2023
William Buckingham Beatton
Many professional footballers served in the forces. Those killed in action included Lowestoft's own Ivan Flowers who played for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Mansfield Town. At a local level Abiah Sabberton (who also took part in tug of war), Thomas Chenery were both in the Great Eastern Railway football team. In 1898 Lowestoft football team captain, William Beatton, so impressed the opposing team Aston Villa (FA Cup winners and officially the best team in England) that they asked him to join them! Added: 17 December, 2023
Safe room
From 'Counting House' in 1812 to now a welcoming private residence , via a Bank manager taking refuge under his bed covers to avoid wartime bomb damage and a 1960's modern refit, this building has been through more than most! Added: 16 December, 2023
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On 15 December 1914 the sailing trawler Queen of Devon left Lowestoft for the fishing grounds. It was reckoned that the vessel would be home on 22nd December Added: 15 December, 2023
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THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE 1914
One famous, and unusual, incident during the First World War was the Christmas Truce of 1914. 

Added: 13 December, 2023

If you want to get really local you can put in your street or postcode. [more to follow...]

What do over 2000 casualties look like (large file)? As a spreadsheet, it looks interesting. Plot the home address to a street map, and the impact is sobering in its power.

Added: 11 December, 2023
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A £10m transformation of a former town hall building will bring "social and economic benefit", a council said.

The granting of planning permission means the building in Lowestoft, Suffolk, will become a multi-use hub and will include a cafe, gallery and a community event space. CREDIT: BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-67433556 

Added: 16 November, 2023
A perspective view of Lowestoft from the N. E. Battery by J. Cole, 1790

by Susan Steward and Harry Grainger

Added: 13 November, 2023
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Lowestoft, 1550-1750: Development and Change in a Suffolk Coastal Town by David Butcher

A detailed history of the town of Lowestoft, its society, economy, and topography. `A superbly researched study.... An excellent addition not only to the history of Suffolk but of early modern society and economy more generally.' Professor RICHARD SMITH, University of Cambridge.

Added: 12 November, 2023