ABSTRACT
Lowestoft is the most easterly point in Britain, on the north Suffolk coast. The current library, replacing the 1905 Carnegie Library destroyed during the Second World War, opened in 1975 after many delays, but was very much a Sixties landmark building designed for a county borough. Stowmarket is a market town of around 14,000 people between Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich on the A14 and the Norwich-to-London railway line. Stowmarket was a divisional library, carrying out back-room work for a group of smaller branches, and the base for a mobile library. Lakenheath is a village of around 4500 inhabitants situated in the far north-west of Suffolk on the edge of the Breckland, a thinly populated area of sandy soils and pine forests. The refurbishment arose from a number of circumstances, which although not related to Lakenheath, had a big impact. Felixstowe is an Edwardian seaside resort, which is now home to the largest container port in Britain.
