Memories left by people visiting Great Yarmouth market on 25th Sept 2007
By Laura Matthews
"I remember being brought to Great Yarmouth in the autumn of 1958 (or was it 1959?) for a school outing from Avenue Road Junior School in Norwich. We had to collect information for our school project on the Herring Industry, but most of all we all collected a bag of herring to take home to mum."
"I worked at Grouts Silk Factory, now Sainsburys, we did silk weaving, we were very happy in our work."
"Woolie's and Electric house, shows by Op's & Drams at Wellington Pier.
Rissoles and chips at Hills Restaurant by Burtons.
Phyllis Adams School of Dance.
Juvenile Ball at Goode's Hotel.
My first job at the Co-operative Society, ration books were still needed for dried milk.
Floral hall for Tuesday nights dancing.
Billy Bales at the speedway track.
The old General hospital.
Auctions on the Fish wharf and lots of fish."
"I remember the live cows coming though the market to be killed at the abattoir."
"Open air swimming pool and galas, Neville Bishop on at The Marina and bathing beauty competitions. I remember going up Southtown Road on J & H Bunn's horse and cart delivering animal foods, my day being Mr Tooley one of the bosses. Also being evacuated in 1939 to Wymondham, barrage balloons, barbed wire all along the front and mines on the beach. Coal being delivered along the Quay by train."
"I was told by the daughter of a Bed and Breakfast owner that they used to cover the bedroom walls with brown paper, so that the smell of the Fisher girls wouldn't soak into the wall paper underneath. At the end of the season they would take it down."
"When my husband and I were first married in 1957 we brought a freezer, and so we could afford to fill it, we used to put aside so much a week in a little pot which we kept in the freezer, we called it our frozen assets."
"When I was little I used to come to Great Yarmouth from the farm in East Somerton with my mum. We did some shopping, but the best bit was steak & kidney pudding, chips, peas and gravy in Nichols Restaurant on the Market Place."