Lowestoft, Suffolk - Inner Harbour - postcard c.1905-15

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• Picture / Image:  The Inner Harbour, Lowestoft [Suffolk]
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Lowestoft (/ˈloʊ(ɪ)stɒft, ˈloʊstəf/) is an English town and civil parish in the county of Suffolk.^[2] The town, on the North Sea coast, is the most easterly settlement of the United Kingdom. It is 110 miles (177 km) north-east of London, 38 miles (61 km) north-east of Ipswich and 22 miles (35 km) south-east of Norwich. It lies on the edge of The Broadssystem and is the major settlement in the district of Waveney, with a population of 71,010 in 2011. Some of the earliest evidence of settlement in Britain has been found here. As a port town it developed out of the fishing industry and as a traditional seaside resort. It has wide, sandy beaches, two piers and other attractions. While its fisheries have declined, oil and gas exploitation in the southern North Sea in the 1960s added to its development, as a base for the industry alongside nearby Great Yarmouth. This role has declined, but the town has begun to develop as an Eastern England centre of the renewable energy industry.

Until the mid-1960s, fishing was perceived as Lowestoft's main industry,^[12] although from the 1930s the percentage of those employed directly and in trades associated with fishing was actually only about 10 per cent of the working population.^{[citation needed]} Fleets of drifters and trawlers caught fish such as herring, cod and plaice. Catches have diminished since the 1960s^[43] and although 100 boats remained by the 1980s, there are now only a few small boats operating out of Lowestoft, with no large trawlers.^[40][44][45] By 2011 just three traders remained at the town's fish market which is under threat of closure due to the redevelopment of the port.^[46][47] The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), a large fisheries research centre that is a part of Defra, is still located in Lowestoft.^[40]

Other major traditional employers included the Eastern Coach Works and engineering and shipbuilding companies clustered around the harbour.^[12][40] These included Brooke Marine and Richards shipbuilding companies, who together employed over a thousand men, but went out of business in the 1990s, and Norwich-based engineering company Boulton and Paul.^[12][48] Some shipbuilding and repair still goes on at the harbour.^[49][50]