Yarmouth Row Houses
Me telling you what I got up to in Norfolk seems to be dragging on a bit but, hey ho, just call me slack, anyway here's another exciting, gripping installment...
Well, on the Wednesday we decided to go to Great Yarmouth, it being market day an' all. There's one thing we like, and that's walking around a market, and Yarmouth's is one of the better ones. There's a wide variety of stalls but Yarmouth market is famous for it's chip stalls. All they sell is chips and there's nothing better than eating chips smothered in salt 'n vinegar from a paper cone as you're walking round a market. I also made a bee-line for the jellied eel stall. Scrummy!
Another reason for going to Yarmouth was to do the walk that was featured on the BBC programme, Coast. The main intention being checking out a couple of museums.
The first one we went to was the Time and Tide museum. This place tells the story of Yarmouth to present day. It's housed in an old Herring curing factory and they've preserved the smoke houses where they used to hang the Herrings to smoke and cure. It hasn't been used for that reason for twenty years but you can still smell the smoked fish in the wooden beams. All the people who used to work in the herring business at the turn of the 19th century, used to live in what are called row houses. All the houses were built in rows with narrow ally-ways in between and instead of street names they were numbered , Row 1, Row 2 etc all the way up to the hundreds. Unfortunately a lot were damaged by German air-raids during the war and the rest were condemned as slums and pulled down. The massive Herring shoals that used to arrive off Yarmouth every year, dwindled until they are virtually non-existent now. You can still get the famous Yarmouth bloater though.
Well I've rambled on enough for tonight so I'll tell you more at a later date....
Well, on the Wednesday we decided to go to Great Yarmouth, it being market day an' all. There's one thing we like, and that's walking around a market, and Yarmouth's is one of the better ones. There's a wide variety of stalls but Yarmouth market is famous for it's chip stalls. All they sell is chips and there's nothing better than eating chips smothered in salt 'n vinegar from a paper cone as you're walking round a market. I also made a bee-line for the jellied eel stall. Scrummy!
Another reason for going to Yarmouth was to do the walk that was featured on the BBC programme, Coast. The main intention being checking out a couple of museums.
The first one we went to was the Time and Tide museum. This place tells the story of Yarmouth to present day. It's housed in an old Herring curing factory and they've preserved the smoke houses where they used to hang the Herrings to smoke and cure. It hasn't been used for that reason for twenty years but you can still smell the smoked fish in the wooden beams. All the people who used to work in the herring business at the turn of the 19th century, used to live in what are called row houses. All the houses were built in rows with narrow ally-ways in between and instead of street names they were numbered , Row 1, Row 2 etc all the way up to the hundreds. Unfortunately a lot were damaged by German air-raids during the war and the rest were condemned as slums and pulled down. The massive Herring shoals that used to arrive off Yarmouth every year, dwindled until they are virtually non-existent now. You can still get the famous Yarmouth bloater though.
Well I've rambled on enough for tonight so I'll tell you more at a later date....
posted by Freddy at 9:26 pm
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