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.
Lowestofts trawler basin
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
Lowestoft Outer Harbour
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 Dry Dock
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.
Don't mess with Jack
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.
He also fills in as a doorman.
 
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