17 High Street
Current
17
High Street
Lowestoft
United Kingdom
The Town Green was originally a northward extension of the High Street but the space on which the green now stands was created out of property destruction and damage caused by WW2 air raids, and one devastating raid in particular in May 1943. CREDIT:Andy Pearce
History
One of Lowestoft's Our Fallen lived here James William Quantrill, a Deck Hand with H.M. Drifter Ocean Fisher, James died on 16th of June 1918 at the age of 18 when a mine brought up in the trawl exploded, sinking the vessel, with the loss of all nine crew including James
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12 May 1943, 2100 hours. Some 25 FW 190s, each carrying a single 500 kg HE bomb, swept across the town at 50 ft causing death and destruction on a dreadful scale. 4 bombs in High Street caused very serious damage to cottages and property in the area pictured. CREDIT: Bob Collis
Architecture
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