Great Yarmouth
About Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth, often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town which gives its name to the wider Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located 20 miles (32 km) east of Norwich. Its fishing industry, mainly for herring, shrank after the mid-20th century and has all but ended. North Sea oil from the 1960s supplied an oil rig industry that services offshore natural gas rigs; more recently, offshore wind power and other renewable energy industries have ensued. In 2021 the built up area had a population of 28,985.
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I'm going to stick to the anus secretion. It's worked so far. I just have one more haunting thing. There is a sweet shop in Great Yarmouth, which is explicitly not haunted. It seems to be the only. sweet shop in the UK, which goes out of its way to say this is not haunted. There are no ghosts here. Is that the lady does protest too much kind of issue?
from No Such Thing As A Sideways Treadmill, 2020-10-30 at 00:15:38 · read transcript
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Or the Britannia Bridge or the Yahr Bridge or the Herring Bridge, right? Herring Bridge won. That's because Great Yarmouth was a great town for the herring industry, really important. The women who worked in the fishing industry, they were vital to it. The Herring Girls.
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They would start in the north of Scotland because the herring shoals would come down the coast of England. They would follow the coast because they would follow the herring. As the year went on, they would just like get further and further down the coast until they ended up in Great Yarmouth. They would stop off at the gutting centres. As they went, because they were walking this, whole way they would knit as they went and then they would sell their goods as they were walking down so they would do walking and knitting walking knitting sell their stuff and then do your gutting and then do walking knitting and then do you think it was fran you know when you see someone on their phone walking down the street and you're like oh for god's sake just put it away do you think people thought that when they saw them yeah just admire the scenery for a minute do you remember we talked about the drovers yeah yeah similar with their magic dogs do you remember they walked long knitting as well didn't they well they had woolen sited for their pigs, didn't they?
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