VGY Accomm Guide 2024 - Edition 1.0 - Flipbook - Page 27
Its sea heritage can be traced and enjoyed at
the Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth
Life, where the herring industry is outlined in a
converted Victorian herring curing works where
you can wander through a Victorian ‘Row’ and
see inside a 昀椀sherman’s home and even smell the
herring aroma that once hung across the area.
Transport yourself back to a 1950s quayside,
steer a coastal Drifter and hear fascinating tales
of wreck and rescue on the high seas.
The Time and Tide Museum has regular
exhibitions but you can also enjoy interactive
activities, puzzles, 昀椀lm shows, free audio guides
and a multitude of children’s activities during the
holiday seasons. Its cafe is always a treat.
The National Trust’s Elizabethan House Museum
on South Quay is a must visit. Moored on the
South Quay is one of Britain’s most signi昀椀cant
historic vessels, the 96-year-old Lydia Eva, the
last surviving steam drifter of the herring 昀椀shing
昀氀eet based in Great Yarmouth.
Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, in
2022 the Lydia Eva played a major role in the
prequel 昀椀lm to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
She is open to visitors at weekends between
March and October.
Great Yarmouth’s Medieval town wall, believed
to be the second most complete medieval wall in
the country, is just more than a mile long with 11
surviving towers.
Work started on the wall in 1276 and took more
than a century to complete. It was more than 23
feet high and 2,280 yards long, with 10 gates and
16 towers.
Explore Great Yarmouth’s historic Rows, the
series of narrow condensed streets in Great
Yarmouth that ran from east to west - the
direction of the coastline and towards the river
at South Quay and housed families in cramped
dwellings. It is commonly stated that there were
145 Rows with the 昀椀rst mention as early as 1198.
Burgh Castle’s Roman fort, one of the best
preserved Roman monuments in Britain, dates
back to the late 3rd century as part of the Roman
network of coastal defences. Its three surviving
walls are almost their
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