Transcribed from the 1849 T. Crowe edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE
NEW HAND-BOOK
TO
LOWESTOFT
And its Environs;
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.
PREFACE.
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.