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8 unusual facts about Lowestoft


Belton with Browston

The parish consists of the villages of Belton and Browston Green, and is situated some 8 km south-west of the town of Great Yarmouth and 10 km north-west of the Suffolk town of Lowestoft.

Gillingham, Norfolk

First Eastern Counties run the X2 through the village, which gives access to Beccles, Loddon, Norwich and Lowestoft as well as the smaller surrounding villages and Anglian Bus run the 580 to Beccles, Bungay, Harleston and Diss and the connecting 581 to Beccles and Great Yarmouth and the 146 which runs between Norwich and Lowestoft via Loddon and Beccles.

Haddiscoe

It is situated some 30 km south-east of the city of Norwich, but only 10 km west of the Suffolk town of Lowestoft.

Haddiscoe railway station, on the Wherry Lines service between Norwich and Lowestoft, is within the parish although approximately 2.5 km from the centre of the village.

Haddiscoe Cut

Cubitt therefore looked at alternatives, and produced a plan to link the Yare to Lowestoft, which would cost over £70,000.

Thurlton

Thurlton is a small village in South Norfolk, located 14 miles (22 km) south-east of the city of Norwich, and 9 miles (15 km) west of the Suffolk coastal town of Lowestoft.

Thwaite St Mary

It is also one of the staging posts for the popular Lowestoft summer air-show.

William Munnings Arnold

He was educated at home and then at private schools in Lowestoft and High Wycombe.


Bill Crooks

William Crooks (Mutford, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England 12 April 1908 – Gisborne, New Zealand, December 1986), known as Bill Crooks was manager of Eastwoodhill Arboretum, Ngatapa, Gisborne, from 1967-1974.

Freddy Gardner

Their home was the Sparrow's Nest at Lowestoft, an entertainment centre-cum-theatre appropriated by the Royal Navy, which also attracted theatre and radio stars such as Eric Barker.

Go Whippet

These have been running in various forms since 1957, and currently serve Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Felixstowe, Clacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea.

Great Yarmouth railway station

Yarmouth South Town railway station was owned by the Great Eastern Railway but operated as the a Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway and ran services through Gorleston and Lowestoft to join with the current East Suffolk Line for a mainline service to London.

James Paget Hospital

It serves a population of around 230,000 people in the Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney area.

The James Paget University Hospital (JPUH) is located at Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, on the A12 Lowestoft Road.

Lowestoft College

Miss C. Musson MBE ATD ARCA was appointed first as head of the Lowestoft School of Art and later also as Principal of the Technical Institute and School of Navigation.

Permission to Land

The band took inspiration for some of their work from the local north Suffolk area surrounding their home town, Lowestoft, including "Black Shuck", which mentions a fictional dog which supposedly haunts the church of the nearby village of Blythburgh.

River-class minesweeper

The concept was refined in the chartered trawlers HMS St David and HMS Venturer, and a total of twelve vessels, all named after British rivers, were constructed by Richards Shipbuilders at Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth at an approximate unit cost of £4.6 million.

Soft-paste porcelain

Recipes were closely guarded, as illustrated by the story of Robert Brown, a founding partner in the Lowestoft factory, who is said to have hidden in a barrel in Bow to observe the mixing of their porcelain.

UTC±00:00

#The easternmost settlement where UTC with DST is applied is Lowestoft in Suffolk, East Anglia, England (at just 1°45' E).

Yarmouth to Beccles Line

The scheme was promoted by Samuel Morton Peto who saw the opportunity to raise the status of Lowestoft by constructing a line which would give the town more direct access to London than the existing route via Norwich which he had also sponsored.


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