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Image Item Comment By Mike Griffin on 20/01/2012 10:23:25.
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Interesting. When I was a boy in gt. yarmouth, we lived on st. nicholas´road and I went to the st. andrews infant school at the bottom of fullers hill from 1950-53. So I would have walked over fullers hill to get to school at the time when this photograph was taken. i remember there was a motorcycle shop and a fishmonger on the hill also. I still have a school photograph from this period and if memory serves me well, the headmistress was a mrs. spandler. My god. this was 60 years ago!
Comment By John Plane on 19/01/2012 21:39:34. Image Item
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Nellie Holmes was my aunt we used to come down to yarmouth as a family from norwich every summer fortnight as my father helped on their cockle stall great times great memories
Image Item Comment By Mike Griffin on 03/01/2012 09:09:20.
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Great photo! On the front of the bus is magdalen estate no. 8. I used to go to school on this route and I remember it as magdalen estate A route. Maybe it changed. Nevertheless a great photo.
Comment By Derek Gibbs on 18/11/2011 01:36:16. Image Item
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this is mill rd cobholm with the maltings on the right
Image Item Comment By Ron Lovick on 10/11/2011 14:56:05.
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Another piece of Yarmouth history soon to be demolished by the dinosaur's of the town. I can remember playing on it as a child and then fishing off it as I got older. What part of our local heritage will be next. Perhaps they should think about the white elephant they call the Outer Harbour.
Comment By Kristian Dyball on 12/10/2011 20:57:38. Image Item
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Can't help but think that this visual prediction of the new look Market Gates is slightly different to reality.
Image Item Comment By Paul T on 03/10/2011 11:31:03.
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That's Mr Ben Angwin directing the choir. You can see John (now Revd.) Greenway in the middle and Louis Roberts (both were still in the choir when I was there in the early 1980s)
Comment By Paul on 03/10/2011 11:27:43. Image Item
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That is Peter Newstead in the middle: he taught me to bell ring at St Nicholas.
Image Item Comment By Valerie Patterson on 02/10/2011 19:10:47.
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the year was 1965 my sister took me on there when i was 10 i loved it.
Comment By Valerie Patterson on 02/10/2011 19:07:27. Image Item
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the year was 1977 a friend of mine worked there printing names on t shirts
Image Item Comment By Bob Porteous on 18/09/2011 12:52:42.
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The 1928 1:2500 Ordnance Survey does show a pub on the corner of St Peter's / St Georges Roads. This area became the small zoo associated with the Hippodrome ?Pets Corner.
Comment By Kristian Dyball on 16/09/2011 20:31:59. Image Item
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This is a great picture of the sea wall just behind Anchor Gardens, it must be late 1800's because I cannot see the Winter Gardens.
Image Item Comment By Elttiks on 14/09/2011 11:48:23.
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I remember a sun dial by the toilets. I was there a few years back, and the loo's were long gone and think the sun dial had gone too.
Comment By Elttiks on 14/09/2011 11:46:53. Image Item
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Didn't this go down to the river? We lived in Trafalgar Rd East in the 70's and there were steps down to the river and we would walk to the beach that way.
Image Item Comment By Ronnie Socratous on 13/09/2011 13:07:44.
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well theres no reason why if not reguired that they could not take the chimneys down----but i cant see how you could find out properly how and when these things took place-----if it wasnt for st peters church i wouldnt have recognized this building as its changed so much----but the position is where the old gypcc was
Comment By Laurence Marshman on 13/09/2011 12:44:46. Image Item
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Ronnie: do you think they would have pulled down the chimneys that were there on the print dated 11 Apr 1850 (when the "Schools" were opened)? There are no chimneys on this photo dated 1860: nor on the other prints (not dated). I find it hard to believe that they would have pulled down chimneys inside 10years!
Image Item Comment By Ronnie Socratous on 12/09/2011 16:03:14.
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this is def where the GYPCC was as i used to go there around 51/52 --mind you the road was wider then and cant remember a wall and railings either
Comment By Ronnie Socratous on 12/09/2011 15:59:21. Image Item
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dunno i think your right ha ha
Image Item Comment By Ken Smith on 11/09/2011 09:48:22.
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Only answer is this is the corner where some of the Hippodrome now stands...cant see anyway other than this..hope this helps..
Comment By Ken Smith on 10/09/2011 17:06:35. Image Item
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This is obviously Deneside as it was..the school was demolished,but I think the right hand section was retained and this was where the Great Yarmouth Physical Culture Club used to meet before it to was demolished and they relocated the York Road drill hall .
Image Item Comment By Ken Smith on 10/09/2011 16:57:47.
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Sorry Ronnie,but this is still the Royal Hotel...
Comment By Kensmith on 10/09/2011 16:49:46. Image Item
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The boat registration number is on the bow should be easy to identify from port records..
Image Item Comment By Paul W on 01/09/2011 11:40:58.
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We went to Yarmouth on 30.8.11,after a day at Pleasurewood Hills and we walked up Regent Road to go to Docwras rock shop at about 6.45pm and we were surprised to find it closed, along with a majority of the shops and the waxworks. The only places open were the restaurants, take aways and a few of the shops at the pier end of the road. I thought we were still in summer season, or do shops close early at the beginning of the week and stay open later towards the end of the week?
Comment By Ronnie Socratous on 22/08/2011 17:23:25. Image Item
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ive just been looking at about 10 of the latest pics of what was GREAT yarmouth and its very apparent instead of improving the town in the last 10-20 years they the council have ruined what was a classy place and allowed it to become a honey tonk tatty place---its ashame you cant go back in time coz we are all missing out
Image Item Comment By Mike Griffin on 16/08/2011 12:12:58.
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Beach station holds special memories for me, I met my wife there back in 1962. She was on holiday from birmingham and I was working in divers bar at the time. I later moved to live in birmingham. We have now been married for 45 years
Comment By Ronnie Socratous on 15/08/2011 17:32:14. Image Item
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i used to get there as early as 8am every sat to put suit cases on my barrow and take them to their digs ----aaaaahhhh happy days
Image Item Comment By Kristian Dyball on 12/08/2011 21:51:15.
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This is a great photo Colin, showing Yarmouth's popularity in early 1960's. I'm assuming this picture shows beach station after it closed its rail lines in 1959.
Comment By Richard Mills on 04/08/2011 12:21:22. Image Item
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The Whip was a popular ride in amusement parks across the country throughout the first half of the 20th century. At the same time, the scenic railway was just about to start its decline in popularity.
Image Item Comment By Elttiks on 30/07/2011 12:49:55.
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I like this :o)
Comment By Anonymous on 20/07/2011 15:34:10. Image Item
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1932 Wiltshire Cup winners 3.0
Image Item Comment By Ronnie Socratous on 19/07/2011 12:29:48.
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the only memory i have of this is standing waiting for the train to come in then getting on it wondering what national service would be like 1956 --------
Comment By Joanna West on 01/07/2011 19:35:53. Image Item
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This is a fabulous shot of the pleasure beach from the Water Chute ride. I have a funny feeling that this ride has been removed. I used to love standing near the glass window, listening to the screams and then the water smashing into the glass with an almighty thud.