About St Luke's church
After the cessation of hostilities at the end of the 1939-1945 World War II and the return to this country of our service men and women, it was necessary to erect many new houses. These took the form of both private and public housing in Beccles and also of course in other towns and villages throughout the United Kingdom. Beccles has a problem that the river, marshes and neighbouring Worlingham restrict expansion to the South and South West of the town. The result of this was that the main centre of population moved away from the old town area.
Our Parish church of St. Michael’s was now some distance from a large part of the population and the more elderly parishioners were finding it more difficult to attend services. It must be remembered that up to the mid-1970s not many families had motorised transport, and either walking, bicycling or public transport was the only means of attending services at St. Michael’s.
It was decided to build a church and church hall