The Waterways are Flowing Again
August 20. 2019
/ Beaches
/ Eating out
/ Museums
/ Places to visit
/ Relaxing
/ walks
/ Norfolk
/ Great Yarmouth
/ History
The First World War had not long ended, jobs were in short supply and men needed work. The country embarked on a programme of building parks and other attractions, cheering up the country in difficult times and providing paid employment for hundreds of thousands of people.
Gt Yarmouth was no exception to this, and in the 1920s work began on public pleasure gardens, a bowling green, yachting ponds ...[More]