Spirit of lost fishing ‘village’ rises again

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Whilst this is an article from the EDP, I feel that it's more appropriate placed here - as it's about a part of Lowestoft's history: The Grit.

Spirit of lost fishing ‘village’ rises again

It was once home to more than 2,000 people, all connected to Lowestoft’s booming fishing industry. But today, little remains that even hints at proof of The Grit’s existence. Sheena Grant finds out about a new show that aims to put that right.
It was the country’s most easterly community, perched where the land met the North Sea, but it was never given a proper name as it didn’t exist as a separate place. Not officially anyway.
In reality, of course, it did exist. In full, glorious technicolour. And although it is long gone, swept away by the march of time and changing tastes, the rich history of those days and the stories of those who lived through them, continues to echo down the decades.
To many it was known as The Beach village but it also had another name; one that seemed to reflect all it was about so much better: The Grit.
Poet and writer Dean Parkin, who grew up in Lowestoft, where The Grit was a kind of community within a community, wrote a book about it in the 1990s with fisherman, lifeboatman and local legend Jack Rose, known as Mr Lowestoft. But The Grit has never really left Dean and after he did a project about the demolition of post-war prefab homes in Stowmarket, celebrating the stories of the people who had lived there, he just knew he had to revisit it.
Now Dean has penned a show about The Grit, which tours seven Suffolk venues with nine performances this autumn.
Pearls from The Grit is part of a year-long Heritage Lottery-funded project about Lowestoft’s almost forgotten fishing village and will be followed, next spring, by the publication of a revised, redesigned and updated edition of Dean and Jack’s 1990s book.
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