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1800s

1850 Pakefield Light House moved to Kessingland because the channel had shifted. The Pakefield LH tower is still there, in the holiday centre. The light was finally extinguished in 1864.

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1832 Pakefield Lighthouse (red light) built to help navigate through the channel between the Barnard and Newcombe Sands. The station was made of brick.

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1832 Low Light rebuilt with brick foundation to stop it falling into the sea

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1894 Low Light moved inland again.

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1881 Low Light now also flashes. And had to be moved 80 yards inland, because of erosion.

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1872 - 74 The present High Light was built. It had a new optical revolving light, flashing at half-minute intervals.

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T. E. THIRTLE, GENERAL AND FURNISHING IRON-MONGER, AND BELLHANGER,45, HIGH STREET, LOWESTOFT. 

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Designed by John Louth Clemence

the Editor of Ths LANCET.

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

a means of securing duly qualified and skilled obstetric architect, I am enabled to send you an elevation, plan, &c., assistance on the one hand, and of enabling patients to contribute according to their means, and to cultivate habits

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“Lowestoft has of late assumed so prominent a status, not merely among the new watering-places which have acquired more or less popularity within the last few years, chiefly owing to the extension of facilities for railway travelling, but as the entrepôt of the important traffic now being developed between Northern Europe and this country, that a " Guide" to it should be prefaced with something a little more discursive than a purely local introduc-With this view. Added: 23 September, 2023