Lowestoft Industry.

[Dave]

Latest post of the previous page:

Another two from eBay.

1/ Seine net fishermen, Lowestoft, Suffolk.

2/ Lowestoft, a busy fish market 1932.

[Dave]

1/ Suffolk, Lowestoft, The Quay, an eBay postcard.
2/ The engine driver pauses for the photographer at the BR Civil Engineers Depot in Commercial Road, Lowestoft inside the Sentinel Steam Shunter Class Y3 0-4-0T Departmental No. 38 (unused BR No. 68168) during 1954. The driver could be William Pye. Thanks to Russell Walker/Facebook.

[Dave]

Thanks to eBay for the following two postcards.
1/ 1930s Houses under construction, Pakefield.
2/ Steam Fishing Boats.

[Dave]

1/ 'Steam Fishing Drifter LT516 'Nelson' returns to her home port. She was built in 1906 and hired by the Royal Navy during the Great War carrying 1-6pdr. Photo could just be either side of WWI.' Thanks to Russell Walker/Facebook.
2/ 'Lowestoft, men on the fish market 1907.' Thanks to eBay.

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[Dave]

1/ 'Loading Fish For The Continent 1907.' (eBay)
2/ 'Herring Drifters.'

[Dave]

1/ No date with this one, but eBay does tell us that it's 'Trawl Market Lowestoft'.
2/ 'A re-post by request. Eastern Coach Works Ltd, Eastern Way (Laundry Lane), Lowestoft. Out the front are Bristol Lodekka FLF chassis' which are each driven from Bristol to Lowestoft by a driver wearing goggles. ECW would permanently close in January 1987. Photo was taken in May 1963.' Thanks to Russell Walker and Facebook.

[boatbuilder]

Ken Blowers ('Ken') would have liked the lower picture had he still been with us today, Dave, as I believe he once worked there.

I do remember seeing similar chassis being driven on the roads many years ago, no doubt to other coach works near where I lived.

[Dave]

The Eastern Coach Works photo looks like it was taken yesterday compared to the Trawl Market, boatbuilder, and yet it is 57 years old.

[kerch]

The only give away is the design of the bus visable .

[Dave]

Two eBay photos, the first being 'Lowestoft smack dock 1905'. The second is 'Steamboat and Yachts, Lowestoft Harbour'.

[Dave]

1/ Thanks to eBay for the first photo which is 'Lowestoft Re-Rubbering Works Marsom’s Garage BP Petrol Pumps, c1908.'

2/ ' A busy Fish Market and Waveney Dock, Lowestoft. Photo was taken in 1919', comes from Russell Walker/Facebook.

[Dave]

Thanks to Bob Johnson/Facebook for 'Fish Market 1975'. From eBay comes 'Lowestoft Depot Sept 1920', any information on this photo is welcome.

[Dave]

1/ Packing herring, Lowestoft.
2/ Herring Market, Lowestoft - early 1900's.
Thanks to eBay for both photos.

[Dave]

Two more images from eBay, 'Peacock & Co Ltd Lowestoft Fish Salesmen Market' is first. Next we have 'Packed busy Lowestoft fish market circa 1905'.

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[Dave]

Two from Crispin Hook/Facebook that could be posted in 'Lowestoft People' but I tossed a coin and 'Lowestoft Industry' won.

1/ / Not too sure, it just says of the back, Brooke yachts? I think it’s the staff going to the Great War.

2/ The staff at Birdseye, i think someone has won a telly? My late grandad Edgar (Eddie) Hook is at the back in his trilby. Today would have been his birthday 19th.

[Dave]

Both photos are from Russell Walker/Facebook.

1/ 'Inside the Pye TV factory, date could be 1957'.
2/ 'Any names to faces? Lumpers sorting a trawler's catch of Cod at Lowestoft Fish Market on Monday 16th November 1981. The 41 Fish Lumpers employed at Lowestoft were set to lose their jobs at the end of the month the photo was taken due to trawler owners changing the way that catches were landed'.