Great Yarmouth Heritage Walks

13/02/2025

So many stories to be told of the Rows ☺️

11/02/2025

A great talk today about rock and pop happenings in Great Yarmouth, it certainly got our audience reminiscing!

Our talks are bookable for the rest of the year and are all filling up! If are interested in attending one, book now at heritage-walks.co.uk

The next one is Great Women from Great Yarmouth in honour of International Women's Day. It is on Tuesday 11 March at 1pm at Town Hall Great Yarmouth

06/02/2025

Wow! Amazing treasures returned to Great Yarmouth today 🥰

04/02/2025

Any businesses out there willing to help secure a tall ship booking for 2025? It was stunning to have the Galeon Adalucia moored along South Quay last year, attracting residents and visitors 🤩

Can your business help? We are looking to bring a tall ship into Great Yarmouth this year, aiming to repeat the success of the Galeon Andalucía's visit last year!

Please share or tag a business below if you think they would be interested in helping us to make this dream a reality ⚓️

DM us or email [email protected]

03/02/2025

Just 4 places left for our winter talk next week!

If you want to hear about pop and rock happenings in Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, book your tickets today!

🎸 Yare Beat - The Greatest Hits Talk
📆 Tuesday 11 February, 1pm
📍 Town Hall Great Yarmouth
📱Book at: www.heritage-walks.co.uk

29/01/2025

🎉Exciting News 🎉
We are pleased to be able to provide some Hard Hat Tours of the Winter Gardens before construction starts!

📆 Thursday 27 March, 10am
📆 Thursday 10 April, 10am
📆 Thursday 24 April, 10am

Please note children must be 14+ to attend with an accompanying adult. Numbers are very limited and we are expecting spaces to go quickly!

Book now at: https://myaccount.great-yarmouth.gov.uk/events/heritage-walks/register

24/01/2025

Do you know about the influential stars from popular music’s past with family links to Great Yarmouth and Gorleston?

This and more will be the subject of:

Yare Beat – The Greatest Hits Talk

Travel back to the days when Great Yarmouth and Gorleston regularly played host to the biggest Rock and Pop stars including The Beatles, The Stones, Eric Clapton, The Who, Billy Fury, and so many more.

There’ll be anecdotes and memories, video footage, and historic milestones that were in the making.

📆 Tuesday 11 February, 1pm
📍 Town Hall Great Yarmouth
🎟 Book online at www.heritage-walks.co.uk by Sunday 9 February, 1pm

Not a fan of online booking? Call 01493 846107 or email [email protected]

16/01/2025

Thanks to everyone that came along to our Great Yarmouth Witch Trials Talk this week 🧙‍♀️

Our next winter talk is Yare Beat - The Greatest Hits on Tuesday 11 February, 1pm at Town Hall Great Yarmouth. A compilation of rock and pop happenings in Great Yarmouth and Gorleston 🎸🎶🎤

Tickets are £5.50 per person, including a tea/coffee on arrival
www.heritage-walks.co.uk

24/12/2024

Hello all and a Happy Christmas eve! 🌲🎄Now as we all know a certain gentleman in a red suit and a white beard will be taking to the skies tonight with his Reindeer, but did you know that Great Yarmouth also has it's own Father Christmas?

Cornelius Harley Christmas was born in 1790 and worked his way up from humble clerk to wealthy wine merchant and when it became time to retire he had amassed quite a fortune. Before his death in 1881 he bequeathed all this money, a sum of £15,800- £2 million in today's money to the corporation of the town to provide "coal, bread and other provisions" for the very poorest residents in the town. This money was to be provided "forever" as according to Mr Christmas wishes, and in 1880 this money helped to provide 8000 hundred weight of coal, 16000 loaves of bread, and more than £100 in money to 6000 poor families within the town.

After his death a charity was set up and continued to help out those in need during the festive period, and as recently as 1977 many residents received coal and other provisions to see them through the festive period. The "Cornelius Harley Christmas Fund" was amalgamated into different town charities in 1984, and still continues to this day to help out those in need.

From all of us here at Great Yarmouth Heritage Walks, we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year! 🎅

18/12/2024

Our admin team are off now for a lovely Christmas break 🎄
All talk registrations will be approved once the team are back on 7 January 2025.

Our next winter talk is Great Yarmouth Witch Trials on Tuesday 14 January at 1pm, at Town Hall Great Yarmouth, we look forward to seeing you then!

10/12/2024

We've got our 'If Walls Could Talk - Elizabethan House Through the Centuries talk' on today at Town Hall Great Yarmouth.

There are a few places available for walk ins - talk starts at 1pm.

We'll also have our wonderful tourism heritage posters for sale.

05/12/2024

Need Christmas present suggestions? Do they have an interest in history or about Great Yarmouth?

Gift vouchers are now available! To order, call 01493 846107 or email [email protected]

05/12/2024

It's fast approaching that time of year when no-one knows what day it is, let alone when the bins go out! Make a note of your revised bin collections dates now 🎄📆

'Tis the season of tinsel, turkey, and lots of recycling! 🎁♻️ Don’t let the holiday cheer turn into bin chaos – check out our updated Christmas bin collection dates. 🎄🗑️

Whether it’s wrapping paper (the recyclable kind, of course!) or all those festive leftovers, make sure your bins are ready on the right day.

👉 Find your festive collection schedule here: https://www.great-yarmouth.gov.uk/christmas-2024-collections

Or save the picture below 🔽🔽🔽

Because nothing says “Happy Holidays” like an empty bin and a clean slate for the New Year! 🎉✨

04/12/2024

If walls could talk, what would they say? Find out what the walls of the Elizabethan House might say at our next winter talk with Stuart Burgess!

Tuesday 10 December, 1pm at Town Hall Great Yarmouth.
Book by Sunday 8 December at www.heritage-walks.co.uk
Tickets £5.50 including a tea/coffee ☕

02/12/2024

Struggling for Christmas present ideas? Do they have an interest in history or about Great Yarmouth?

Gift vouchers are now available for use on our walks and talks! To order, call 01493 846107 or email [email protected]

19/11/2024

Our next talk will be be with Stuart Burgess on Tuesday 10 December, 1pm at Town Hall Great Yarmouth.

Join us for an illustrated talk about the Elizabethan House, looking at the development of this amazing house, and its' owners and occupiers over the years.

Tickets £5.50 includes cup of tea/coffee
🖱www.heritage-walks.co.uk
📞01493 846107
📨[email protected]
Bookings close Sunday 8 December at 1pm.

12/11/2024

Thanks to those who attended our talk today 📚

Our next talk is on Tuesday 10 December at 1pm at Town Hall Great Yarmouth - If Walls Could Talk - Elizabethan House Through The Centuries

Book now at www.heritage-walks.co.uk