Pictures of Lowestofts commercial
harbour,boats and surrounding area..
Pictures taken in Lowesoft harbouraround 2002 .All
Lowestofts beamers were sold or scrapped soon after..Originally owned by
Putfords (now Seacore Marine) virtually all the rig support and stand by vessels
have mostly gone the same way too.There is talk of supply boats for the turbine
industry using the harbour and some boats do still use it but in nowhere near
the numbers of a few years ago.
Rig stand by vessels,some redundant,some waiting new
owners,some just waiting to be towed away and turned into razor blades.At the
time China and India were demanding so much steel that most of these would
have ended up there,to be broken up. The Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club
and marina are in the background of this picture..A short distance to the left
is the North Sea to the right is Lowestofts bascule bridge famous all over the
UK for causing constant traffic jams even before the marathon repair sessions
and closures of 2008.The bridge opens to provides access for yachts to Oulton
Broad and on to the Norfolk Broads,it effectively closes the A12 whilst open
which then causes traffic to come to a halt in much of Lowestoft
Waveney Road and Baconsdozen is on the extreme right of this picture.At
the time it still supplied the commercial fishing boats with clothing and
supplies..Years ago this part of the dock was full of railway lines,trucks and
sheds,now they've vanished,along with the herring industry they supported.The
odd commercial vessel uses the harbour tody (2008) there are no fishing boats
left to do so.
Lowestoft's Commercial Road and an ex rescue boat is being
converted to a diving support vessel in the dry dock of Small & Co of
Lowestoft.Commercial road runs alongside the river talisman trawlers and others
had net stores there,Putfords and other marine businesses had offices and work
shops either side.Shipbuilders and the repair yards of Colne Shipping and the
Excelsior Trust are or were on the river banks.
This is Jack,our newest recruit,head of security and the
complaints department.These pictures were taken when Baconsdozen wa still a
ships chandlers,we still supply waterproof clothing,gloves and souwesters
but the main business now is the mail order of tools.
