Trolley 614

There were two trolleys in the Kokoro passage this morning, both from the M&S food hall. The large one was full of serious looking rubbish, not the sort of thing to be disposed of in a litter bin at all, so that one was left for the professionals and I settled for the small trolley, right.

No small trolleys in the stacks on its return, just a double line of large trolleys.

After which I took a turn in the market, falling for a spot of smoked haddock from the caravan. A caravan which has been attending Thursday market for some time, but which, for one reason or another, I have never used. I suspect the smoked haddock of being dyed rather than smoked, but it was not a lurid yellow, so I gave it a go. There was also a very pallid kipper which I suspected of being a bloater, but the caravan man assured me that that was how they did kippers in Lowestoft, not like in the Isle of Man at all. While I explained that Lowestoft and nearby Kessingland were one of the holiday destinations of my childhood - with a rare childhood memory of seaside chalets at Kesssingland having been turned over by the storm and flood of 1953.

And then the mackerel looked pretty good, but I did not like to spring them on BH. A bit of consultation needed.

On up East Street, to find that there was some movement on the (mostly?) unoccupied building which used to be the 'Common Room', the penultimate stop on the East Street leg of the annual outing up to the Downs for the Derby.

The top coat has been stripped off, making what is left look quite old.

But nether Bing nor Google come up with the goods. And while the building may have been present on the snap above, somewhere in the vicinity of the orange blob, opposite the end of Church Street, it was not marked P.H. in the way of the King's Arms (now a block of flats) a bit further along, that is to say up and right.

And not yet clear whether Nuro - a local outfit who do luxury homes in the finest locations - are going to knock the building down and start over or do a refurb. But why strip the building down if you are going to knock it down anyway? Did the heritage gang get in on the act? What is clear, is that the whole East Street area has been the subject of massive change since the second world war. I believe the gang use the phrase commercial vandalism.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/01/trolley-613.html.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1953.

Reference 3: https://www.nurohomes.co.uk/.

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