Lowestoft, Suffolk - Lighthouse, tram - Photochrom Celesque postcard c.1910s

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• Picture / Image:  Lowestoft - The Lighthouse - shows a tram outside
• Publisher: Photochrom 'Celesque' 
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Lowestoft Lighthouse is a lighthouse operated by Trinity House located to the north of the centre of Lowestoft in the English county of Suffolk. It stands on the North Sea coast close to Ness Point, the most easterly point in the United Kingdom. It acts as a warning light for shipping passing along the east coast and is the most easterly lighthouse in the UK.

The original lighthouses at Lowestoft, which were established in 1609, were the first lights to be built by Trinity House.[2][3] They marked the southern approach to Yarmouth Roads which, in the seventeenth century, was a key roadstead and anchorage, in frequent use both by vessels engaged in the local herring trade and by colliers on the route from Newcastle to London.[4]

The current lighthouse was built in 1874 and stands 16 metres (52 ft) tall, 37 metres (121 ft) above sea level. The light, which has a range of 23 nautical miles (43 km; 26 mi), was automated in 1975.[5]

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 Broads and is the main settlement in the district of East Suffolk, with a population of 71,010 in 2011. Some of the earliest evidence of settlement in Britain was found here. A port town, it developed out of the fishing industry and as a seaside resort with wide, sandy beaches, two piers and other attractions. As its fisheries declined, oil and gas exploitation in the southern North Sea in the 1960s added to its development, alongside nearby Great Yarmouth. This role has declined, but it has begun to develop as a regional centre of the renewable energy industry.

The discovery of flint tools in the cliffs at Pakefield in south Lowestoft in 2005 means that human habitation of the Lowestoft area can be traced back 700,000 years. This establishes it as one of the earliest inhabited sites known in Britain.[3]

The area was inhabited in the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron ages and in the Roman and Saxon periods. Several finds have been made at a Saxon cemetery at Bloodmoor Hill in south Lowestoft.[4][5] The place name derives from a Viking personal name, Hlothver, and toft,[6] a Viking word for homestead. It has been variously spelt as Lothnwistoft, Lothuwistoft, Lestoffe, Laistoe, Loystoft and Laystoft.

The 1086 Domesday Book gives Lothuwistoft village a population of some 16 households in three families, with ten smallholders and three slaves.[7][8] The manor formed part of the king's holding in the Hundred of Lothingland, worth about four geld in tax income.[8][9] Roger Bigod was the tenant in chief.[9] The lost village of Akethorpe may have lain close by.[10]

In the Middle Ages, Lowestoft became an increasingly important fishing town that grew to challenge its neighbour, Great Yarmouth.[11][12] The trade, particularly for herring, continued as the town's main identity into the 20th century.

The naval Battle of Lowestoft in June 1665 was the first of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Held 40 miles (64 km) off the coast, it was a clear victory for the English over the Dutch.[13]

Lowestoft Porcelain Factory, between 1757 and 1802, was in production for longer than any English soft-paste porcelain manufacturer other than Royal Worcester and Royal Crown Derby, producing domestic ware such as pots, teapots and jugs.[11] It was built on the site of an existing pottery or brick kiln, and used later as a brewery and malt kiln. Most of its remaining buildings were demolished in 1955.

Sir Samuel Morton Peto's 19th-century arrival in Lowestoft brought a change in the town's fortunes that included improving the fishing industry.[12] To help stimulate it, Peto was given the task of building a railway line for the Lowestoft Railway and Harbour Company, connecting the town with Reedham and the city of Norwich, as further stimulation for the fishing industry.[14] Its completion had a profound impact on the town's industrial development – its fishing fleets could sell to markets further inland, and it assisted other industries such as engineering, through boosted trade with the continent.[14] Peto's railway was key also to establishing Lowestoft as a flourishing seaside holiday resort.[12][14]

During World War I, Lowestoft was bombarded by the German Navy on 24 April 1916 in conjunction with the Easter Rising. The port was a major naval base during the war, including for armed trawlers such as Ethel & Millie and Nelson used to combat German U-boat actions in the North Sea such as that of 15 August 1917. In World War II the town was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe for its engineering industry and role as a naval base.[15][16] It is sometimes claimed as one of the UK's most heavily bombed towns per head of population.[15] The Royal Naval Patrol Service, formed mainly by trawlermen and fishermen of the Royal Naval Reserve, was mobilised in August 1939. Its central depot HMS Europa, was also known locally as the Sparrow's Nest.[17]