Display showcases 20th century entertainment in Lowestoft
From the Rolling Stones during the 1960s to Showaddywaddy this month, there has always been something to amuse audiences in Lowestoft.
To celebrate the town's long history of entertainment, Suffolk Record Office has put together a special exhibition. The display includes ephemera relating to 20th and 21st century music, theatre, comedy and cinema. Also on display is an original version of The Farce of Sodom - an erotic play published anonymously in 1694. The copy held at the record office appears to be the earliest of only ten surviving handwritten copies.
Search room assistant Neil Coles, who put the display together with his colleague Linda Buckmaster, said: 'A lot of entertainment went on here. As a newcomer to the area there still appears to be quite a bit as well.'
The record office, in Lowestoft Central Library, Clapham Road South, is open 9.30am to 4.30pm and closed on Wednesdays and Sundays.
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