Why would I go to Lowestoft, you may well ask. I had a nostrum, having visited Herma Ness (north) and St Kilda (west) to add east – Lowestoft – and south (Cornwall/Scillies).
Fine railway architecture
Rather nice mural
The most easterly point of the United Kingdom is quite hard to find. There are no signposts and you have to negotiate your way through a run down industrial estate and when you get there there is a modest pavement compass (not sure what else to call it) 
and it was comforting to find some familiar place names there
and anticipated places…
I then went across the field where the fishing nets were hung out to dry to the Lowestoft Marine museum – mainly to pick up a Lowestoft badge for Prang (which I did, but I haven’t yet taken a picture of him sporting it). The museum was worth the visit and I kept up the tradition of being the sole visitor.
Fishing net wracks and lighthouse
This sign preceded the “pavement compass”
More about fishing….
Herrings
An anchor made of shells
A model of the Titanic
This figurehead was dredged up and has been restored
and on the way back to the Van this caught my eye -
- on a par with “Ascension is not just an island” (during the Falklands War) and “Sins are like beggars, if you give in to them, they keep coming back for more” (seen in East Grinstead).
My next outing was on the 10th October.
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