Short trailer for High Street Histories Series 2, a new eight-part series featuring conversations between historian Ivan Bunn and writer Dean Parkin, this time exploring Kirkley and south Lowestoft.
The series, a partnership collaboration between Historic England’s Heritage Schools programme, the North Lowestoft Heritage Action Zone, Poetry People and Ivan Bunn, will be published online throughout February and March.
From Thursday 15 February 2024, a new episode of High Street Histories will be posted online weekly on Poetry People's Facebook and KZfaq page. Future episodes feature the day the trams arrived in London Road South, the Kirkley shop with a connection to Emily Pankhurst and the suffragette movement, the Palace Cinema which had a 'winter entrance’, and the yacht club building that was moved across Lowestoft to become the changing rooms for the town's football team.
All episodes will subsequently be available, along with the accompanying free worksheets for schools, on the Historic England, Poetry People, and Think Lowestoft websites.