Today many people classify Pakefield as just another part of Lowestoft, but it was a separate fishing village in it's own right, fiercely competitive with neighbouring Lowestoft. Over the years much of Pakefield has been lost to the sea through coastal erosion.

7.50 AM and judging by the sunrise at Lowestoft, today's going to be a lovely day and being the most Easterly town in Britain we see it first.

A little later in the morning and this is the view looking north from Pakefield cliffs towards Lowestoft.

Some brightly painted beach huts, but these ones are all boarded up against the winter storms and won't be used again until next year.

This impressive looking building was once the Grand Hotel, one of the finest hotels in the area, commanding excellent sea views. The hotel was never reopened after the war and was acquired by the government in the 1950s and became the fisheries research centre for MAFF. One of its functions is to recommend quotas for catches of different species of fish, thus sometimes bringing it into conflict with our own local fishermen.

The Jolly Sailors pub with some recently built apartments, which have superb views overlooking the coast.

View looking south with Pakefield church to the right.

The church of All Saints and St Margarets.

Quite a few fishermen on Pakefield beach today , these ones have most probably been fishing all night.