Tag Archives: Lowestoft

Great Yarmouth’s Battle against Herring Piracy during the English Civil War

Posted on September 7, 2019 by elizabethjayne2015

I have spent nearly a decade of my life researching and writing about Great Yarmouth’s Civil War history, something which has been rewarding and endlessly fascinating because of the quality of Great Yarmouth’s civic records held at the Norfolk Record … Continue reading →

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Messing about on the river 1878 style

Posted on July 20, 2017 by victoriadraper24

On Monday 26th August 1878 four friends, including the artist Ernest Arthur Freeman, set off from New Mills, Norwich on a five day canoe trip down the Yare and up the Waveney via the New Cut. The tourist industry on … Continue reading →

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Alfred Albert Suggate: Loddon’s musical maverick

Posted on August 30, 2016 by notesfrompoppy

Amongst the Parish records for Loddon we find a hand addressed envelope containing a printed letter dated 1847, detailing the work of a Mr A. A. Suggate. Who would have thought that this ordinary letter held at the Norfolk Record … Continue reading →

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Longstanding Local Rivalry in the Herring Industry

Posted on March 30, 2016 by elizabethjayne2015

The rivalry between Great and Little Yarmouth and Lowestoft over the herring industry goes back hundreds of years, probably since the communities began. Herring was a high-protein food eaten in great quantities all over England, so anyone who controlled the … Continue reading →

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Memories of Christmas

Posted on December 22, 2014 by emilysarah2012

Memories of Christmases gone by are always fascinating.  In the Norfolk Sound Archive, which is part of the Norfolk Record Office, we hold a sound recording of the memoirs of Hon. Lady Smith, daughter of Savile Brinton, first Baron Somerleyton. … Continue reading →

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