LOWESTOFT 1975

amateur film showing the shops, market, housing and industry in Lowestoft in the mid 1970s

[@flashtheoriginal]

Brilliant!

[@johnwortley3918]

Grew up on Princes Walk in Lowestoft from 1985. Are there any photos/footage of it before then? Would love to see what it used to look like.

[@billywilson1444]

Yooo this is sweet

[@christopherbasilpizzinga2499]

nice !!

[@aslc2547]

Great to see, used to be an excellent town, total embarrassment now.

[@wolfysmith4752]

Yep - a busy little town, killed off by the Council's stupid road schemes - and jobs being shunted off abroad.

[@aslc2547]

@@wolfysmith4752 Remember how both Bevan Street and Tonning Street were thriving!

[@wolfysmith4752]

@@aslc2547 evan Street was a great little street - John Easter's, Sparham's newsagent, a fishmonger - as a kid, every Saturday morning we'd pop into Sam Hook's to gawp at the fishing gear before going to the pictures at the Odeon...

[@Bobt98]

Showed several businesses but not Coach Works the biggest