HERITAGE

PRESS RELEASE

7/11/22

An innovative online project has just gone live on our local webscene.

Supported by Lowestoft Town Council and Woodworks Art Cafe, The Historic High Street Stroll can be found on community website Lowestoft Old and Now –https://lowestoftoldandnow.org/full/stroll 

Every building on the High Street appears, including several no longer there!

The Triangle Market area is graced by an infamously iconic architectural landmark we know as The Triangle Sails.

Immediately in front of them are some trees, planted around 30 years ago.

About five days ago temporary fences were erected in around the trees and the area below the sails.

Immediately, rumours started to circulate that the Town Council were about to chop down the trees.

On 27th September Lowestoft Town Council had voted to remove the sails, and work out ways to “...make it more visually appealing.” (LTC Minutes,27 Sept 2022 Full Council Meeting).

Designed by John Louth Clemence

the Editor of Ths LANCET.

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SIR, -Through the kindness of J. L. Clemence Esq.,

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Reported rumours that Triangle Trees were for the chop turn out to be true – sort of.

LO&N published on Friday 11th a story which noted rumours that the four trees in front of the Sails were coming down.

We wrote that clearly this was unlikely, as Lowestoft Town Council (LTC) recognised Climate Emergency and was an Earth Protector.

We had asked LTC what was going on.

Now, we have more facts.

Chosen by Amber Butchart, dress historian and curator

Lowestoft is my hometown, and this building on the High Street has always fascinated me. It was a Georgian dispensing chemist with an ornate frontage, complete with pharmacist bottles and jars in the windows. I was really sad to see it closed down a couple of years ago. This summer it rose from the ashes as RE Morris General Store stocking hardware goods and kitchenalia.

A great idea started a few years ago by The Lowestoft Archaeological & Local History Society and written by David Butcher. See them ALL here https://lowestoftoldandnow.org/related-topics/history/advent-day-essays 

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Coastal erosion (South beach, Lowestoft) 1906-2023 approx 200m!   Measuring from the current cliff-top edge to the east of All Saints Church (as was) to the low-water mark on a OS 25-inch map, revised in 1903 and published in 1905.   The lines in red are the old roads and buildings. 

See also Dave Burt FB

Thanks to Marion Hayes for an excellent photo from early 1900’s showing building work on the Town Hall. We had been struggling to find ANY front on old images for this historic building. Now it is pride of place on our stroll 

Revised (unofficial) local idea for train station improvement generates much interest on social media. Particularly in the light of previous official submission (bottom image)

it uses the towers that were originally on the front (Denmark Road) to soften the effect of the steel and glass extension