Lowestoft


Lowestoft's attractive - but expensive - beach huts add to your enjoyment of the beach
Lowestoft's attractive - but expensive - beach huts add to your enjoyment of the beach

Lowestoft, when you have travelled all the way from north Wales to reach it, seems like the end of the world - which isn't far from being true! Lowestoft boasts the most easterly church in Britain, the most easterly gas works, the most easterly supermarket and, of course, the most easterly point, the Ness.

However if you have thought of the place as a run-down former fishing port, you couldn't be more wrong. It has lots of history, a fair number of quaint old buildings, and lots of energetic thriving industry. And, of course, a pretty decent beach with miles of sand.

In this film we are taken on a tour of the old town, courtesy of the staff from the Heritage Centre. When you visit Lowestoft, make sure that the Centre is your first port of call; the staff are very friendly and can tell you all the things you should see (to say nothing of the stories such as the famous author who rode his horse into someone's front hall and the merchant who kept a bottle of royal urine as a souvenir!)