The Reeve Memorial
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Quite a few people in Lowestoft think that the monument in Kensington Gardens is a war memorial. It is not.
Our spire is dedicated to Richard Henry Reeve, a solicitor who had purchased the title Lord of the Manor of Lowestoft. He must have been an impressive individual, at least to his own family, because when he died in 1888 his cousin, Mary E. Franey, erected the monument on the Royal Plain, where it sat there for years.
After the Great War, a real war memorial was built for the Lowestoft war dead and the Reeve monument was moved to Kensington Gardens.
We no longer have a Lord of the Manor, natural or purchased. Just a monument. What it is a monument TO, is up to you.
