The New Hand-Book to Lowestoft and Its Environs

Transcribed from the 1849 T. Crowe edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
COMPILED FROM
GILLINGWATER’S HISTORY, SUCKLING’S ANTIQUITIES OF SUFFOLK, AND OTHER SOURCES.
ILLUSTRATED WITH STEEL ENGRAVINGS.
LOWESTOFT: PRINTED BY T. CROWE, HIGH STREET.
MAY BE HAD ALSO OF WHITTAKER AND CO., LONDON; JARROLD OR FLETCHER, NORWICH; BARBER, SLOMAN, OR ALEXANDER, YARMOUTH; LOYNS, BECCLES; BURTON, IPSWICH; OR ANY BOOKSELLER.
MDCCCXLIX.
THOMAS CROWE, PRINTER, HIGH STREET, LOWESTOFT.
Lowestoft is not only considered a very healthy and pleasant watering place, but, from various causes, is assuming a position of such importance, as to render it more than probable that visiters will arrive in numbers augmented every season: this work is intended primarily for their use; at the same time, it is hoped it will he found interesting to the residents generally, being a verbal and pictorial description of the place of their abode, and a repository of facts and incidents connected with its history. The writer wishes it to be distinctly understood that the book professes to be, for the most part, a compilation; he has not therefore thought it necessary—except in a few special cases—to give authorities, or the usual indications of quotation.
Lowestoft , March , 1849.
Lowestoft is situated upon the most Easterly point of land in England. It stands upon a lofty eminence, and commands an extensive prospect of the German Ocean.
Enthroned upon an ancient hill it rests; Calmly it lifts its time-worn head; and first Of all Old England’s busy towns, whispers Its orisons, and greets the rising morn.