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Category Archives: East Anglia
Kitchener AGM 2014
Another year has gone by and the Annual General Meeting of the Lord Kitchener Memorial Holiday Centre at Lowestoft – colloquially “Kitchener’s” – has come round again being held last Friday evening at the Centre in Kirkley Cliff. Once again … Continue reading
Riding the Old Front Line
A stalwart band of battlefield guides from Anglia Tours Limited and their friends and supporters have recently travelled the entire length of the WW1 Western Front from the Belgian coast to Switzerland raising funds for two charities. The main team … Continue reading
The Wimbledon Gull
I wish I had a better quality camera in my phone but it’s the first time I’ve ever had a phone with a camera so hadn’t, at the time of purchase, appreciated their versatility. I have had a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lowestoft & District, Wildlife
Tagged ball, gull, Lowestoft, Seagull, tennis, Wimbledon
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Lowestoft and Lord Kitchener
It seems that one of Lowestoft’s best kept secrets is its connection with Lord Kitchener. By the outbreak of WW1 Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener was already a national figure, known for his successes at the Battles of Ferkeh and Hafir in … Continue reading
Lowestoft WW1 Memorial
Recently a neighbour, knowing my interest in local and military history, showed me a programme for the dedication of the memorial to the 716 Lowestoft men killed during World War One. The sadder thing still about the memorial, apart from … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera, Genealogy, Lowestoft & District, Military History, Navy, World War 1
Tagged CWGC, Ephemera, Lowestoft, Memorial, Tom Crisp, War, WW1
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Book Sale update
As a result of the book sale a cheque for £445.08, two thirds of the proceeds, was presented to Angie Buxton-King, the principal fund raiser for the East Coast Hospice at their London Road North charity shop in Lowestoft, on … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookselling, Lowestoft & District
Tagged Book sale, East Coast Hospice, Lowestoft, Presentation
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Charity book sale!
Added 16th November 2013: Grand Charity Book Sale, 10.00am-3.00pm Thursday 21st, Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd November at the Stella Maris Hall, Gordon Road, Lowestoft, in support of the new East Coast Hospice. Original post 28th October 2013: As a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookselling, Lowestoft & District
Tagged Book sale, Christmas, East Coast Hospice, Lowestoft
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WW2 letters from Lowestoft
After the best part of twenty years I’ve finished but was it worth it? I’m not the best judge of that. The discovery of a collection of letters from one member of my family to another, recording events in my … Continue reading
AGM at the Kitchener
Last night I attended the the Annual General Meeting of the Lord Kitchener Memorial Holiday Centre in my capacity as one of the trustees. Held at the Centre at 10, Kirkley Cliff, Lowestoft we heard the chairman of the trustees, … Continue reading
Fr. Anthony E. Sketch
On 10th October we said goodbye to Fr. Tony Sketch who had been our parish priest for nearly twenty years and who had, in his own words and after a long illness, ‘gone home to God’. The formal occasion of … Continue reading
Posted in Lowestoft & District, R.I.P.
Tagged Church, Death of friends, Fr. Tony Sketch, Lowestoft, Our Lady Star of the Sea
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