Catalogue description The North East Suffolk Photographic and Illustrative Archive

This record is held by Suffolk Archives - Lowestoft Branch

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Reference: 1300
Title: The North East Suffolk Photographic and Illustrative Archive
Description:

This is a composite and growing collection of around 5,600 images was built up by the former Lowestoft Borough Library and continued by the Suffolk Record Office Lowestoft branch. It forms a pictorial record of the town of Lowestoft and the surrounding parishes over the last two hundred years. The collection primarily comprises of photographs, but there are also a significant number of postcards, as well as engravings and prints and a few negatives. The emphasis is naturally on the town of Lowestoft, with circa 3,500 such images, but there is ample coverage of the other towns in the Waveney district (Beccles, Bungay, Halesworth and Southwold), with local villages are also represented. The collection has also strayed further afield to cover the seaside parish of Aldeburgh and the south Norfolk parishes which border Suffolk and form the broads network. Shipping and the fishing industry, until recently the primary economic activities in Lowestoft, feature heavily. The holiday industry, entertainments and coastal erosion, sports, street scenes and prominent buildings are also covered. Many local personalities, such as librarians, lifeboat men, footballers, clergy, and teachers, and national and international figures also appear.

Date: 1785-1999
Held by: Suffolk Archives - Lowestoft Branch, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Lowestoft Borough Library

Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft Branch

Physical description: 5,684 images
Access conditions:

Open

Custodial history:

The collection was transferred to the Suffolk Record Office in 1999. Additional deposits are possible

Subjects:
  • Suffolk
  • Lowestoft, Suffolk
  • Fishing industry
  • Sea transport
Administrative / biographical background:

Begun by Lowestoft Borough Library the collection became part of the Local Studies Library collection in 1974 when the borough library passed to Suffolk County Council.

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