Wilde's Score

Also known as Denny's Score, The Common Score up to the 17th century and School Score in 1842.

Denny's Score was possibly connected with Amy Denny, one of the known Lowestoft witches, who in the mid 17th century visited the house immediately south of the score, and supposedly bewitched a 9 year old child. Common Score was a name often used in the 17th and 18th centuries, indicating that it was public or for the 'common' use of townsfolk.

The Wilde Family lived in the South Flint House from the time it was built until the mid 18th century. The house was a dwelling on the High Street at the top corner of the north side of the score and is still standing, being the oldest house in Lowestoft. It has the date 1586 over the doorway.

John Wilde died in 1738 and left money to start a new school, which was built in the score behind the Flint House. During the Second World War many of the buildings were bombed during an air raid, but one school room was left and given by Bird's Eye to the Lowestoft Civic Society in 1995 for use as a heritage centre. The air raid took place on 3rd May 1941 and the building was being used as the headquarters of the Lowestoft Air Training Corps. Then on 13th June 1941 two bombs hit the Central School nearby where soldiers were sleeping, killing fourteen.

The lower part of the score was built over by part of the Bird's Eye Walls complex, causing it to be diverted into Cumberland Place in the 1970's and giving it a similar bend halfway down to that of Maltsters Score.