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Category Archives: Lowestoft & District
Gurkhas welcomed to Lowestoft
It was my privilege today to take two Gurkha veterans from the Gurkha community at Thurrock out to tea at Lowestoft. Although I am no longer a trustee I still have a keen interest in the Lord Kitchener Memorial Holday … Continue reading
Posted in East Anglia, Ld. Kitchener Mem. Holiday Centre, Lowestoft & District, Military History
Tagged gurkha, veterans
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On 6th May, remember – did your SCC member support the Lowestoft Record Office?
Today I received a letter from the Conservative Party urging me to use my postal vote to support their two candidates for the Lowestoft South Division of the Suffolk County Council on 6th May. The trouble is that the concept … Continue reading
Posted in Local history, Lowestoft & District, Personal rant
Tagged archive, archives, Hold, LRO, SCC, SORO
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The end of an era…
I have decided to step down as a trustee of the Lord Kitchener Memorial Holiday Centre, Lowestoft. With a family connection of active support going back to 1919 it’s a bit of a wrench but there comes a time when … Continue reading
Posted in Ld. Kitchener Mem. Holiday Centre, Local history, Lowestoft & District, Military History, Navy, Uncategorized, World War 1, World War 2
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Derek J. K. Sims, RIP
We had a somewhat erratic early childhood both of us being witness to domestic violence. Many years later I asked him how much he remembered of that and he said ‘quite a lot’ but we never otherwise discussed it. Perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Lowestoft & District, Personal rant, R.I.P.
Tagged Family history
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Lowestoft Record Office
Now that the Lowestoft Record Office as we had come to know it has closed and the start of the transfer of the contents of the strong room to Ipswich is imminent, it makes one wonder how the decision makers … Continue reading
Posted in Local history, Lowestoft & District, Personal rant
Tagged archive, archives, Hold, LRO, SCC, SORO
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Kitchener’s 2020
We are constantly amazed to find that some Lowestoft people do not realise that we exist. 2020 will be our 101st year of catering exclusively to ex armed, merchant and emergency service men and women (some longer than others), with … Continue reading
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Lowestoft WW2 Cuckoo postscript
With the 75th anniversary of the raid on 1st February 1942 fast approaching it is perhaps time for a brief postcript to the piece I wrote on Lowestoft’s ‘cuckoo’ air raid warning. Please read that first if you have not … Continue reading
Posted in East Anglia, Genealogy, Lowestoft & District, Military History, R.I.P., World War 2
Tagged air raid, cuckoo, Hilltop, Lowestoft, Siren, Victoria Road, War, WW2
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Lowestoft’s life-saving ‘Cuckoo’ alarm in WW2
The 1st February 2017 will be the 75th anniversary of a tragic incident which took place in Victoria Road, Lowestoft in 1942 during WW2, when a mother and her two children were killed by a German bomb. Their deaths, however, … Continue reading
Posted in East Anglia, Genealogy, Lowestoft & District, Military History, Navy, R.I.P., Royal Naval Patrol Service, World War 2
Tagged air raid, alarm, alert, cuckoo, destructor, immediate danger, labour unrest, Lowestoft, shelter, shipyards, WW2
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Historical Lowestoft lithograph
I was very tempted with this today. Lot no. 2 in Key’s auction of East Anglian Art at Aylsham was described as a mid-19th Century hand-coloured lithograph, after J. Reid and engraved by F. Jones, a ‘View of the New … Continue reading
Posted in Bookselling, East Anglia, Ephemera, Illustrators, Lowestoft & District
Tagged 19th century, Keys Aylsham, lithograph, Lowestoft, Reid
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Edward Seago and Pegasus
Recently I was privileged to be able to visit the Dutch House, the home and studio of the artist Edward Seago at Ludham in Norfolk. For those unfamiliar with him Edward Seago was born in Norwich, the younger son of … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Book stock, Books, East Anglia, Illustrators, Lowestoft & District, Military History, World War 2
Tagged Airborne, artist, dutch house, east anglia, Lowestoft, norwich, pegasus, seago, WW2
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