In Lowestoft, Special Delivery is based on a collection of letters sent to Trevor Westgate, a journalist on the local newspaper. Readers wrote in with their stories about the town and each week Trevor published one or two in his ‘Westgate on Friday’ column. After he retired, the letters were given to the Suffolk Record […]
Storytelling
Special Delivery in Lowestoft
It was lovely to be back at Hildesley Court and Pakefield Primary school last week, for the first session of Special Delivery in Lowestoft. Working with community poet, Dean Parkin, we first went to Hildesley Court, where residents regaled us with stories of their first days at school. One adult recounted that, on her first […]
Make, Do & Friends visit Beyton
It was lovely to meet so many people at Beyton today and hear some of their wonderful stories about the village. From recollections of being taken from the infant school, complete with chair, to sit and witness the blowing up the last remaining pill box in the village, to a beautifully drawn map of all […]
Lowestoft Folk summer activities
Our regular sessions may have finished, but we’ve got a really exciting programme of FREE storytelling and creative activity sessions happening in Lowestoft this summer. No booking is required – all the creative activities run on a ‘drop-in’ basis and are limited only by the number of chairs we can get round the table. Stories […]
Lowestoft Folk celebrates
Last week saw the Lowestoft Folk celebration event for residents at Hildesley Court and pupils from Pakefield Primary school – and what a celebration it was. The afternoon started with residents creating fortune tellers in which they wrote good luck messages for the pupils; by the time the pupils arrived, there was a real buzz […]
Lowestoft Folk at Lowestoft Festival
What a great day it was on Saturday, when Lowestoft Folk took part in the annual Lowestoft Festival. Lowestoft Museum brought banners and displays, whilst Lowestoft Folk ran craft activities and story telling sessions – and unveiled the Cabinet of Surprises (a working title) to the public for the first time. The Cabinet was introduced […]