The reason you didn't hate Yarmouth is because you only walked along the seafront. Actually go IN to town, and see the grimness of it; I live here and I think it's a hole. 😅
Used to have our 2 week summer hols there as a kid in the 70s Yarmouth was really busy then. We went back last year and was a bit disappointed as the place has clearly gone down hill, It seems to be a bit of forgotten place. Glad your review was positive and upbeat, well done.
Cool to see Great Yarmouth finally. When I used to work for Shell (actually a subcontractor called AJS) to support the oil and gas platforms in the north sea we had daily contact with our colleagues in Great Yarmouth from both Den Helder and Leiden. From Great Yarmouth the oil platforms are supported and the gas comes in from the North Sea.
Love Yarmouth been going there since childhood. The pier did used to go over the sea but not anymore. Regents road is a little aladdin’s cave of shops both great and not so much. Now take my children and have a fun time. You should try Hemsby another lovely little seaside place or Cromer.
I visited it last year with my young family and had a wonderful time. It does seem to have improved a lot in the past few years and I would definitely like to return.
Yarmouth is amazing, my autistic lad loves it.. that tower /pub thing was supposed to be a casino and viewing area at one point , that great street of holiday shops was pedestrianised years and years ago, and Jim Davidson once owned the wellington pier, in the tea rooms (model village) old penny machines and winter gardens are being invested in and turned into something
Yarmouths been pretty much my 2nd home since I was a kid and I think part of it is where its as much an industrial town as a Seaside one so it doesn't have the shine you expect perhaps but I love it all the same, heres some things that might help on stuff you werent sure on Landmark was once the Tower Market with the tower a viewing platform, I have a vintage deck of cards where its prominently featured The Piers have not really been shortened by much, Yarmouths coastline has been altered by the Harbour being dug out, this incidently also caused errosion in some of the nearby towns, Hemsby was badly effected and Caister has a Hotel return from the sea that was lost in the 40s The Harry Ramsdens was once an attraction that was called Treasure Trove (I think), it was a tresure hunting/diving history theme with multiple rooms you watched scenes with anamatronics ending with a room full of actual treasure, the adjoined resutrant was themed too and even had a dungeon with a falling ceiling. The Hippodrome is a indoor Circus (as opposed to a tent) that has a floor that drops to become a pool. The Moulin Rouge looking Golf was a Waxworks originally, not the one labled the worst in the world though, that was on Regent street in the old House thats now in quite a sorry state. The Model Village also houses an amazing Penny arcade museum, complete with Card accepting penny smasher, on my last visit I managed to win a shilling and a bouncy ball which sounds like not much until you realise how hard those old games were. It is an amazing town if you don't expect too much from it, Regent has always had something for everyone (Best Rock in the world from docwras) and theres plenty of history to enjoy, yes theres some sadly extinct attractions that are dearly missed but old Yarco isn't dead yet.
Pleasurewood Hills? Thats in Lowestoft, Suffolk, Mate. And the seaside theme in Lowestoft is on a much smaller scale than Yarmouth Yarmouth is what it is. Love it
@@MoreKevinChapman I moved away from Lowestoft about 3 years ago. I had to drive my mum to and from work in Yarmouth quite a lot and i wish it had been 15 minutes. It's closer to 30
We was there in September (8th to the 22nd it was brilliant we had a fantastic caravan at seashore holiday park.and not far from the beach and sea. Really nice soft sand and the taxis was very good and cheap go down reagent road plenty of gift shops and lots of cafes. You will love every second of your day
I love this part of the country and have been going there since I was a kid and still visit a couple of times a year now. Beach walks with that lovely sea air,fish and chips,arcades the list goes on. The hippodrome is where they have the circus shows and the sea did used to come under the pier as I can remember it from years past. Great video and definitely a thumbs up and glad you enjoyed your visit.
I went there once as a kid in the 70's and we had masses of green flies. I'd never seen anything like it, we were covered walking around. Seems like the bugs enjoy Gt Yarmouth anyway 🤣
If you're interested in model villages there are two interesting places in the Netherlands, there is Madurodam, the Netherlands in miniature, and there is miniworld Rotterdam, a model trainway of Rotterdam
Great Yarmouth is the best never mind the rest. We will be coming back next year and staying at seashore holiday park we really love great Yarmouth the place is brilliant. Fantastic. Gorgeous place for a 2 week holiday
I moved to yarmouth 2 years ago, Great place, unfortunately (as I found out after being made redundant 3 months ago from my work at home job) there is no decent jobs on offer, just seasonal and retail. Cost of living here is pretty cheap at least, and the council are always putting something on for free, e.g. festivals and firework displays
The coastline has changed over the decades: Yarmouth beach has become massive, stranding the pier, as elsewhere on the coast the land is crumbling into the sea. Nearby in Hemsby, homes once a quarter of a mile inland had to be demolished before the land beneath them was washed away.
Do you have a spare battery for the mobility scooter? If not maybe good idea for hilly areas that zap the battery or longer days out, or look into customising the scooter with a folding detachable solar battery for sunny days so it can charge on the move if installed correctly even on over cast days with limited natural light
I have family over that way and I visit a few times a year. If you go again, during football season, grab a match at Great Yarmouth FC. Looks like it’s right by where you parked your car. They have the oldest, still standing, wooden Grandstand. I took my Dad to watch them while I was there over Easter.
The Winter Gardens havre just had a £12m investment allotted for refurbishment. Its the oldest winter garden's in the world! The model village had a Banksy, he came and placed a piece in there in secret. It was awesome! Busy Street is the best place ever. Love GY. Stay every year ❤ The motherland!
Well he enjoyed it... been coming to Yarmouth when I was a child and stopped about age 18... and now back in 2008 moved here from Watford, and about 7 years about my partner moved here from Luton, we both still love it. The town has two sides, the "summer side" when (fingers crossed its hot and sunny) its alive with people, noise and lights, when its winter sure its a grey town with alot closed etc, but unlike normal towns we do have "two sides" and so it changes. So good people here, friendly and nice, I enjoy walking down the back streets when its nice and quite, not a soul or car, and of course the events we have.. and if you not into Yarmouth then you have the green counrtyside to explore. My couple of issues is since i moved in 2008 we have had alot of Europeons staying here, so the shops are "different" and kingstreet is not like something from a third world country, shame used to be a nice little english street. And we have alot of romanian gypsies popping up all around town...I bring this up as a tourist town i feel will need to make sure people return time and time again to Yarmouth... so happy to live here them many other souless places in the Uk...
Many times I have been to Great Yarmouth. Especially when I was a kid. Staying in Haven Holiday park. Been there recently, and seen changes. Especially with the beach front , and town centre etc.. Probably best to stay away from the back streets. As many Druggies and Romanian and Gypsy Chaves arguing in the streets 😂. Hopefully Great Yarmouth, can hopefully bring the spark back to how it used to be 🤞👍 Cheers from the Vlog was interesting 👍
If you like beaches, tacky arcades, and free parking, then Gorleston is far better than Yarmouth. Has less arcades ad Shops though. It does however have a Banksy! Glad you had a good time!
GT Yarmouth is a good time, they have mini golf X2 and they have a cool arcade with loads of games, one of which is basketball connect 4, that's really fun to play!
Britania pier was always the same length but the sea used to come up higher (more sand built up there now which is a constantly changing situation there) meaning the end of the pier was going out into the sea. They used to have fast boat rides off the end of the pier back in the 90s.
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I haven't been back to Great Yarmouth since the Summer of 1999, sadly. My family and I enjoyed our annual holidays there but as our family fell apart, our holidays were obviously the first casualty. I wish we could've moved there from London but it was not to be. 🤨
Why not now? I moved up from London in 2014 ane never looked back 2bh. It can get dull but sell your house in london and find something 4 times the size up here. If you rent, get more for your money. I let a bedroom in London for 900 a month, here thats a three bed house with a garden
@@shayZero Sorry, only just saw this video again... Yes VC my daughter and I rent from a housing association here in South East London...and am now disabled, and neither my daughter or I drive...plus I need to be pushed in my wheelchair so luggage etc would be a bit of a nightmare. It's all 'castles in the air' / 'pipe dreams' re holidays anywhere since my marriages failed. (I haven't been on holiday since 1999, though my daughter has been to Scotland with her Dad & stepmum, but they've now moved out of London so those holidays are over now too - as she cannot just walk up the road to their flat to see them at any time that suits her.) So I just watch other people reacting to their holiday reviews now instead of enjoying my own visits. 🤨
Yarmouth does seem to be trying, but when I went down there mid-season on a bright, sunny, and very warm day the place was pretty much dead, with hardly anyone on the beach, along the shops, or in the arcades. The town centre itself is also a zombie, heading towards totally dead, but they've just got £20M from the leveling up fund, so hopefully that will improve over the next few years. I think that one of the major problems with most UK seaside towns is that they just aren't selling themselves any more. Advertising budgets have been slashed, which means that a lot of people don't even think of a UK seaside holiday any more. This in turn leads to less investment, which means that the places look increasingly tired, which means less people visiting, which means even less investment, leading to a vicious circle that is increasingly difficult to get out of. BTW, if you're in the Norfolk/Suffolk area next summer I can recommend both Cromer and Southwold, which seem to be retaining their visitor numbers.
I love Southwold too. As for Great Yarmouth I can't think of anything worse than a place full of amusement arcades and takeaways. Beach is nice and big though.
I used to live in Norfolk as a kid while in care. My social worker came to visit me one weekend, we went to Gt Yarmouth, she thought it was a bit of a dive. We didn’t stay there very long as she didn’t like the place. Think she was a bit of a snob truth be told. She was a lady of a certain age. It’s a little run down in places but so are many seaside towns. I’ve been to Yarmouth when I lived there as an adult.
I loved Great Yarmouth as a kid, was there every year especially Gorleston we used tonsit on harbour wall for hours and watch the big boats sail in and out. As with most seaside towns and the world we live in now it has sadly depreciated. I went back to Yarmouth around 10 years ago to see how much it had changed and I was so saddened to see the state of some places there. I still have my childhood memories though and i treasure them.
You missed a trick. There's a cheap burger place on the shop street where you can buy a burger for £1.50 (not entirely sure if the price) but it's cheap
The sea front and shops are ok. The back streets are more like most Eastern European back streets. Drugs and Romanian gypsies 😂 also the famous long bar has gone. A cause of my hangovers when we came over the border from suffolk
I remember that street when I was a kid, allways full of England and union jack flags. I remember buying a big Rambo knife from one of the shops it had a survival kit in the handle .I was only a nipper and they sold us them lol.
Great video of Gt Yarmouth, memoried as kid, teenager to adult who lived at back of seafront and worked Birds Eye and Brown and Root Eng in 1970s....brilliant place to be. Its what families want in holiday with Norfolk Broads few miles easy drive to. Oasis Tower was where rock/pop/soul groups played in ballroom, great Disco on mid floor at Cleos, ice ring on lower level. Drama and rock/pop groups at Windmill Theatre.....seaside shows at piers and large cinemas....great atmosphere 1970s
My first time with your output, Ilike it v. much (both liked and subscribed) I used to visit the resort fairly often as a teenager (I lived in London) and when I got working, would take a boat on the broads and moor up at the yacht station, 40 years later, I'm in a wheelchair, still living within the Greater London area (Hornchurch) but so many of the businesses based thereabouts, would be out of reach, also 45 years on, I think I've outgrown such a gaff. It is very sad to see the decline of seaside resorts. I would love to see your return trip next summer, is it safe to swim there these days, are there any seaside places that are thriving in the UK? VBW x
30-40 years ago the Pier used to be in the sea(I used to fish from it), personally I think this is why Hemsby is being allowed to go to waste, redirecting the sea from there will re-introduce water to Britannia Pier and it couldn't cope with it unless there were a hell of a lot of money spent on upgrades and repairs.
I found adam and the ants paperback 1981, in yarmouth 1986 love the nice things you can find there, such as your pokerman cards its a great place don't knock it.
I can think of plenty of places worse than Yarmouth. I had loadscof holidays there. You have to go in the season. The atmosphere is completely different. When you get hot weather that beach is excellent for a good tan. I really miss it. Bridlington is the worst ive ever been to.
High unemployment, high rates of teenage pregnancy, low levels of academic achievement, plus it's a seasonal seaside town. That's a recipe for massive economic deprivation! I work with a lot of people who were born in Yarmouth (I live and work in Norwich) who have all said the same thing 'If you have any talent or ability then you get of there as soon as possible'!
you mentioned the joke shop at hunstanton! i was a huge indiana jones fan as a kid and i bought a joke whip from there not really realising the other more inappropriate uses. my parents hated the thing and didn't like me bringing it to the woods when we went for a walk, it soon went missing, found it in a drawer years later, i can only imagine what people thought!
Lol but as a child it was innocent enough wasn't it? I'm sure you see the funny side of it now, i know i did reading what you put. I'm sure your parents had a quiet laugh about it on the quiet.
Oh my days , great Yarmouth, the place of many many childhood holidays staying at Hemsby . I have a pic of myself on one of the said donkeys from the beach ride and the snail ride in joyland was just my fave go to ride . ( im 50 in november ) so that shows how long they have been going. And the wax works up the holiday road was just on another plane of hilarity , so bad it was good lol.I can almost taste the chips and donuts thinking about them . What a great video, i now need to save up and go back . Thanks buddy this made me so happy .
Well I went all the time in the 90s as a kid an I thought it was the bollocks. Working class people in this part of the country this was the only holiday we got and I for one am quite grateful.
the council is to blame for some of it, when Bins are overflowing there's trash left to pile up by the bins its was like this last night in Gorleston because i was metal detecting and collecting trash. But when i got to the bins they where all over flowing and trash was everywhere. you can definitely see why so much plastics end up in the sea. Because the local council is not doing a good job. And its blowing all over the beach.
As someone who grew up going to great yarmouth every year, i believe that during summer it really does live up to its name. And anyone who thinks overwise is clearly a karen who needs to lower their standards.
As many people in their 50's would say, yep...kids holiday destination and Blackpool. I took my kids there 3 years ago and I was surprised what a dump Gt Yarmouth is, trapped in time.
Live down the road from Yarmouth, and there's no doubt - it's seen better days like all seaside towns in the UK - but it still provides a good traditional day out during the summer months :)
Haven't been to Great Yarmouth for over 20 years, used to love going there when on holiday in Norfolk.. My kids used to call the main street that leads to the seafront 'crap street' lol.
Great Yarmouth is the only place I've visited in the UK that I vowed never to return to. Whilst the beach is impressive, the "architecture " opposite & around it is ugly, even derelict in places. Found the resort grim, depressing & unsafe. I think it has the highest violent crime rate in Norfolk. It makes Blackpool look like paradise.
@@joeo1725 I live here and won't go out after dark. The violent crime here has accelerated at a frightening rate. I use to love the place (moved here 1981) can't wait to move out of the town now.
Cromer is more classy and nicer Gy has gone down the pan. But still remind me of caravan holiday with my family when I was a kid lol I still like Gy regardless
I was there on my family vacation staying at Vauxhall holiday park that’s got very warm cosy luxury lodges, we stayed for 7 days during the summer school holidays it’s literally a 5 minute drive from Vauxhall we were pretty much doing a beach detour in the car at Gorleston beach Great Yarmouth it’s such a great seaside town extremely touristy, on the quieter warmer sunny days it’s better which is awesome rather than actually being on the busy hectic days that’s totally rammed gives your more direct access to the attractions especially with a walk ons instead the long tedious waiting queuing times
As a kid our family used to stay near Great Yarmouth for our summer holiday. You have brought back so many happy memories. Thank you.
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The reason you didn't hate Yarmouth is because you only walked along the seafront. Actually go IN to town, and see the grimness of it; I live here and I think it's a hole. 😅
Facts💯
Too many foreigners and crackheads
The UK'S become a shit hole.
I love Great Yarmouth, yes it is a bit rundown but I love its seafront and Wellington Pier.
I quite like Great Yarmouth. The only part I didn’t like was the shopping centre at the end of the high street that was grim.
It still is!
The Winter Gardens has been closed for years, but it has received lottery funding to be renovated.
The crazy golfers were not happy 😂😂
I love these videos. I didn't know half of these English towns you're exploring, which makes it super fun to watch.
Used to have our 2 week summer hols there as a kid in the 70s Yarmouth was really busy then. We went back last year and was a bit disappointed as the place has clearly gone down hill, It seems to be a bit of forgotten place. Glad your review was positive and upbeat, well done.
Cool to see Great Yarmouth finally. When I used to work for Shell (actually a subcontractor called AJS) to support the oil and gas platforms in the north sea we had daily contact with our colleagues in Great Yarmouth from both Den Helder and Leiden.
From Great Yarmouth the oil platforms are supported and the gas comes in from the North Sea.
Love Yarmouth been going there since childhood. The pier did used to go over the sea but not anymore. Regents road is a little aladdin’s cave of shops both great and not so much. Now take my children and have a fun time. You should try Hemsby another lovely little seaside place or Cromer.
I visited it last year with my young family and had a wonderful time. It does seem to have improved a lot in the past few years and I would definitely like to return.
Went over summer for a week and was a great place, very much enjoyed it
Yarmouth is amazing, my autistic lad loves it.. that tower /pub thing was supposed to be a casino and viewing area at one point , that great street of holiday shops was pedestrianised years and years ago, and Jim Davidson once owned the wellington pier, in the tea rooms (model village) old penny machines and winter gardens are being invested in and turned into something
Jim Davidson sneered at common folk if they said hi. 1st hand experience here
@@joeo1725 I bumped into him at a dance music event there and he said hello back. Wasn't exactly chatty but he didn't sneer at me at least!
Great video, I was born and raised in GY and will always be close to my heart. Grew up just behind Harry Ramsdens..Now based in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Yarmouths been pretty much my 2nd home since I was a kid and I think part of it is where its as much an industrial town as a Seaside one so it doesn't have the shine you expect perhaps but I love it all the same, heres some things that might help on stuff you werent sure on
Landmark was once the Tower Market with the tower a viewing platform, I have a vintage deck of cards where its prominently featured
The Piers have not really been shortened by much, Yarmouths coastline has been altered by the Harbour being dug out, this incidently also caused errosion in some of the nearby towns, Hemsby was badly effected and Caister has a Hotel return from the sea that was lost in the 40s
The Harry Ramsdens was once an attraction that was called Treasure Trove (I think), it was a tresure hunting/diving history theme with multiple rooms you watched scenes with anamatronics ending with a room full of actual treasure, the adjoined resutrant was themed too and even had a dungeon with a falling ceiling.
The Hippodrome is a indoor Circus (as opposed to a tent) that has a floor that drops to become a pool.
The Moulin Rouge looking Golf was a Waxworks originally, not the one labled the worst in the world though, that was on Regent street in the old House thats now in quite a sorry state.
The Model Village also houses an amazing Penny arcade museum, complete with Card accepting penny smasher, on my last visit I managed to win a shilling and a bouncy ball which sounds like not much until you realise how hard those old games were.
It is an amazing town if you don't expect too much from it, Regent has always had something for everyone (Best Rock in the world from docwras) and theres plenty of history to enjoy, yes theres some sadly extinct attractions that are dearly missed but old Yarco isn't dead yet.
I remember going to the wax works works on regent street when I was a kid, even as a kid I thought it was laughable
Loved the "there's fish and chips in here, well I can smell fish and chips" good smelling mate lol, another great vlog
Pleasurewood Hills? Thats in Lowestoft, Suffolk, Mate. And the seaside theme in Lowestoft is on a much smaller scale than Yarmouth
Yarmouth is what it is. Love it
They’re like 15 minutes apart. To anyone who doesn’t live in either place, that’s the same place.
@@MoreKevinChapman I moved away from Lowestoft about 3 years ago. I had to drive my mum to and from work in Yarmouth quite a lot and i wish it had been 15 minutes. It's closer to 30
Kevin if you can do Lowestoft to Yarmouth in 15 minutes, you should be driving for Ferrari mate! 😄😄
hippodrome water circus is absolutely fantastic. Go see!
We was there in September (8th to the 22nd it was brilliant we had a fantastic caravan at seashore holiday park.and not far from the beach and sea. Really nice soft sand and the taxis was very good and cheap go down reagent road plenty of gift shops and lots of cafes. You will love every second of your day
I love this part of the country and have been going there since I was a kid and still visit a couple of times a year now. Beach walks with that lovely sea air,fish and chips,arcades the list goes on. The hippodrome is where they have the circus shows and the sea did used to come under the pier as I can remember it from years past. Great video and definitely a thumbs up and glad you enjoyed your visit.
Went as a kid, the holiday was blighted by little black biting inset things that were everywhere that put me off ever returning.
I went there once as a kid in the 70's and we had masses of green flies. I'd never seen anything like it, we were covered walking around. Seems like the bugs enjoy Gt Yarmouth anyway 🤣
Yarmouth is good, surrounding areas near norfolk are lovely.
This really took me back to my childhood coming here, it was definitely my favourite seaside resort.
A joy to watch thank you
Great Yarmouth is a wonderful seaside town x
I remember as a child in late 80's the pier use to be half in the sea, looks like they built up the beach to protect the pier?
My husbands family lived in the rows in 1910. Still there.
If you're interested in model villages there are two interesting places in the Netherlands, there is Madurodam, the Netherlands in miniature, and there is miniworld Rotterdam, a model trainway of Rotterdam
Visited Madurodam the flowers looked amazing also Durinell Waasenaar water park/theme park is well worth a visit!.
Love Gt Yarmouth, been going on and off for years (too many to say) going for a week this saturday
Great Yarmouth is the best never mind the rest. We will be coming back next year and staying at seashore holiday park we really love great Yarmouth the place is brilliant. Fantastic. Gorgeous place for a 2 week holiday
I moved to yarmouth 2 years ago,
Great place, unfortunately (as I found out after being made redundant 3 months ago from my work at home job) there is no decent jobs on offer, just seasonal and retail.
Cost of living here is pretty cheap at least, and the council are always putting something on for free, e.g. festivals and firework displays
Its good place for a start up eco cafe vegan etc
Keep your eco rubbish
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The coastline has changed over the decades: Yarmouth beach has become massive, stranding the pier, as elsewhere on the coast the land is crumbling into the sea. Nearby in Hemsby, homes once a quarter of a mile inland had to be demolished before the land beneath them was washed away.
Yes when I was younger in the 80s the sea would come quite a way under Britannia pier now it’s the opposite
Yeh i holidayed in hemsby in 22 its pretty sad.
Love Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth. It's time for Fairground freights at the amusement park during the last week of October, can't wait
Do you have a spare battery for the mobility scooter? If not maybe good idea for hilly areas that zap the battery or longer days out, or look into customising the scooter with a folding detachable solar battery for sunny days so it can charge on the move if installed correctly even on over cast days with limited natural light
We’re looking into a spare battery, but they cost nearly as much as the scooter did!
Had some great times in gt Yarmouth..happy memories
I live 30mins from yarmouth and we love coming here in summer
The pier used to be in the water it’s the beach that’s got bigger
I have family over that way and I visit a few times a year.
If you go again, during football season, grab a match at Great Yarmouth FC.
Looks like it’s right by where you parked your car.
They have the oldest, still standing, wooden Grandstand. I took my Dad to watch them while I was there over Easter.
The Winter Gardens havre just had a £12m investment allotted for refurbishment. Its the oldest winter garden's in the world! The model village had a Banksy, he came and placed a piece in there in secret. It was awesome! Busy Street is the best place ever. Love GY. Stay every year ❤ The motherland!
Great Yarmouth is my childhood. I still love it and Regents Road with all the shops.
Thank you brought back childhood memories and thanks for covering the accessibility aspects
My family use to go to Haven in Great Yarmouth. Those are memories that won't be forgotten
Blackpool is worse just go one street back from the front it's absolutely shocking
Well he enjoyed it... been coming to Yarmouth when I was a child and stopped about age 18... and now back in 2008 moved here from Watford, and about 7 years about my partner moved here from Luton, we both still love it. The town has two sides, the "summer side" when (fingers crossed its hot and sunny) its alive with people, noise and lights, when its winter sure its a grey town with alot closed etc, but unlike normal towns we do have "two sides" and so it changes. So good people here, friendly and nice, I enjoy walking down the back streets when its nice and quite, not a soul or car, and of course the events we have.. and if you not into Yarmouth then you have the green counrtyside to explore. My couple of issues is since i moved in 2008 we have had alot of Europeons staying here, so the shops are "different" and kingstreet is not like something from a third world country, shame used to be a nice little english street. And we have alot of romanian gypsies popping up all around town...I bring this up as a tourist town i feel will need to make sure people return time and time again to Yarmouth... so happy to live here them many other souless places in the Uk...
Gosh it’s miles better than a lot of seaside towns.
Hastings
Ramsgate
Clacton
Margate
Blackpool.
Hmm I dunno Blackpool atleast have a good pleasure beach
Many times I have been to Great Yarmouth. Especially when I was a kid. Staying in Haven Holiday park. Been there recently, and seen changes. Especially with the beach front , and town centre etc..
Probably best to stay away from the back streets. As many Druggies and Romanian and Gypsy Chaves arguing in the streets 😂.
Hopefully Great Yarmouth, can hopefully bring the spark back to how it used to be 🤞👍
Cheers from the Vlog was interesting 👍
If you like beaches, tacky arcades, and free parking, then Gorleston is far better than Yarmouth. Has less arcades ad Shops though. It does however have a Banksy!
Glad you had a good time!
The reaction of the mini golfers!
If you want a place to visit whilst there southwold pier with the “under the pier show”
This looks a fab place, we’re definitely visiting next season.
I was there a few weeks ago in September really enjoyed it.👍👍
GT Yarmouth is a good time, they have mini golf X2 and they have a cool arcade with loads of games, one of which is basketball connect 4, that's really fun to play!
Should go to Bourton-on-the-water for the model village
Britania pier was always the same length but the sea used to come up higher (more sand built up there now which is a constantly changing situation there) meaning the end of the pier was going out into the sea. They used to have fast boat rides off the end of the pier back in the 90s.
I love Great Yarmouth, i want to retire there
What equipment do u use to record and how do u get such a good angle when walking? the mic also sounds great
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I haven't been back to Great Yarmouth since the Summer of 1999, sadly. My family and I enjoyed our annual holidays there but as our family fell apart, our holidays were obviously the first casualty. I wish we could've moved there from London but it was not to be. 🤨
Why not now? I moved up from London in 2014 ane never looked back 2bh. It can get dull but sell your house in london and find something 4 times the size up here. If you rent, get more for your money. I let a bedroom in London for 900 a month, here thats a three bed house with a garden
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Sorry, only just saw this video again...
Yes VC my daughter and I rent from a housing association here in South East London...and am now disabled, and neither my daughter or I drive...plus I need to be pushed in my wheelchair so luggage etc would be a bit of a nightmare. It's all 'castles in the air' / 'pipe dreams' re holidays anywhere since my marriages failed.
(I haven't been on holiday since 1999, though my daughter has been to Scotland with her Dad & stepmum, but they've now moved out of London so those holidays are over now too - as she cannot just walk up the road to their flat to see them at any time that suits her.) So I just watch other people reacting to their holiday reviews now instead of enjoying my own visits. 🤨
There is more to Great Yarmouth than the seafront. The old part and the walls are very interesting.
Yarmouth does seem to be trying, but when I went down there mid-season on a bright, sunny, and very warm day the place was pretty much dead, with hardly anyone on the beach, along the shops, or in the arcades.
The town centre itself is also a zombie, heading towards totally dead, but they've just got £20M from the leveling up fund, so hopefully that will improve over the next few years.
I think that one of the major problems with most UK seaside towns is that they just aren't selling themselves any more. Advertising budgets have been slashed, which means that a lot of people don't even think of a UK seaside holiday any more. This in turn leads to less investment, which means that the places look increasingly tired, which means less people visiting, which means even less investment, leading to a vicious circle that is increasingly difficult to get out of.
BTW, if you're in the Norfolk/Suffolk area next summer I can recommend both Cromer and Southwold, which seem to be retaining their visitor numbers.
I love Southwold too. As for Great Yarmouth I can't think of anything worse than a place full of amusement arcades and takeaways. Beach is nice and big though.
And Sea Palling
I used to live in Norfolk as a kid while in care. My social worker came to visit me one weekend, we went to Gt Yarmouth, she thought it was a bit of a dive. We didn’t stay there very long as she didn’t like the place. Think she was a bit of a snob truth be told. She was a lady of a certain age. It’s a little run down in places but so are many seaside towns. I’ve been to Yarmouth when I lived there as an adult.
I loved Great Yarmouth as a kid, was there every year especially Gorleston we used tonsit on harbour wall for hours and watch the big boats sail in and out. As with most seaside towns and the world we live in now it has sadly depreciated. I went back to Yarmouth around 10 years ago to see how much it had changed and I was so saddened to see the state of some places there. I still have my childhood memories though and i treasure them.
You missed a trick. There's a cheap burger place on the shop street where you can buy a burger for £1.50 (not entirely sure if the price) but it's cheap
The sea front and shops are ok. The back streets are more like most Eastern European back streets. Drugs and Romanian gypsies 😂 also the famous long bar has gone. A cause of my hangovers when we came over the border from suffolk
anyone remember the chicargo club,late 70,s....the bowling alley....and the tower use to have 2 clubs up there.
I remember that street when I was a kid, allways full of England and union jack flags. I remember buying a big Rambo knife from one of the shops it had a survival kit in the handle .I was only a nipper and they sold us them lol.
Great video of Gt Yarmouth, memoried as kid, teenager to adult who lived at back of seafront and worked Birds Eye and Brown and Root Eng in 1970s....brilliant place to be. Its what families want in holiday with Norfolk Broads few miles easy drive to. Oasis Tower was where rock/pop/soul groups played in ballroom, great Disco on mid floor at Cleos, ice ring on lower level. Drama and rock/pop groups at Windmill Theatre.....seaside shows at piers and large cinemas....great atmosphere 1970s
My first time with your output, Ilike it v. much (both liked and subscribed) I used to visit the resort fairly often as a teenager (I lived in London) and when I got working, would take a boat on the broads and moor up at the yacht station, 40 years later, I'm in a wheelchair, still living within the Greater London area (Hornchurch) but so many of the businesses based thereabouts, would be out of reach, also 45 years on, I think I've outgrown such a gaff. It is very sad to see the decline of seaside resorts. I would love to see your return trip next summer, is it safe to swim there these days, are there any seaside places that are thriving in the UK? VBW x
I watched the video doing a live stream from Great Yarmouth little while you said years since she was there
30-40 years ago the Pier used to be in the sea(I used to fish from it), personally I think this is why Hemsby is being allowed to go to waste, redirecting the sea from there will re-introduce water to Britannia Pier and it couldn't cope with it unless there were a hell of a lot of money spent on upgrades and repairs.
I enjoyed my stay at Great Yarmouth back in 2010!
It's a great resort and has got better over recently years too.
I found adam and the ants paperback 1981, in yarmouth 1986 love the nice things you can find there, such as your pokerman cards its a great place don't knock it.
I can think of plenty of places worse than Yarmouth. I had loadscof holidays there. You have to go in the season. The atmosphere is completely different. When you get hot weather that beach is excellent for a good tan. I really miss it. Bridlington is the worst ive ever been to.
High unemployment, high rates of teenage pregnancy, low levels of academic achievement, plus it's a seasonal seaside town.
That's a recipe for massive economic deprivation! I work with a lot of people who were born in Yarmouth (I live and work in Norwich) who have all said the same thing 'If you have any talent or ability then you get of there as soon as possible'!
you mentioned the joke shop at hunstanton! i was a huge indiana jones fan as a kid and i bought a joke whip from there not really realising the other more inappropriate uses. my parents hated the thing and didn't like me bringing it to the woods when we went for a walk, it soon went missing, found it in a drawer years later, i can only imagine what people thought!
Lol but as a child it was innocent enough wasn't it? I'm sure you see the funny side of it now, i know i did reading what you put.
I'm sure your parents had a quiet laugh about it on the quiet.
@@waynesmith4612 its certainly a funny story with some fond memories lol
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Haha the people playing crazy golf were very confused
list of things not mentioned: the amount if rubbish off the sheer drop is insane,
Oh my days , great Yarmouth, the place of many many childhood holidays staying at Hemsby . I have a pic of myself on one of the said donkeys from the beach ride and the snail ride in joyland was just my fave go to ride . ( im 50 in november ) so that shows how long they have been going. And the wax works up the holiday road was just on another plane of hilarity , so bad it was good lol.I can almost taste the chips and donuts thinking about them . What a great video, i now need to save up and go back . Thanks buddy this made me so happy .
used to go to hemsby on holiday in my younger teenage years. 20 now.
Well I went all the time in the 90s as a kid an I thought it was the bollocks.
Working class people in this part of the country this was the only holiday we got and I for one am quite grateful.
Bit like doing a review on a shopping center when all the shops are shut ? Its never gonna look good is it? maybe July when its it full swing 👍🏼🇬🇧
Im a norfolk person and Yarmouth is 20 miles from me..i love it all year round.
Anybody remember when the building with the windmill sail was a believe it or not?
the council is to blame for some of it, when Bins are overflowing there's trash left to pile up by the bins its was like this last night in Gorleston because i was metal detecting and collecting trash. But when i got to the bins they where all over flowing and trash was everywhere. you can definitely see why so much plastics end up in the sea. Because the local council is not doing a good job. And its blowing all over the beach.
Nothing wrong with Great Yarmouth, had many happy times there.👍
As someone who grew up going to great yarmouth every year, i believe that during summer it really does live up to its name. And anyone who thinks overwise is clearly a karen who needs to lower their standards.
Stop using the name Karen 😒.
As many people in their 50's would say, yep...kids holiday destination and Blackpool. I took my kids there 3 years ago and I was surprised what a dump Gt Yarmouth is, trapped in time.
Live down the road from Yarmouth, and there's no doubt - it's seen better days like all seaside towns in the UK - but it still provides a good traditional day out during the summer months :)
Haven't been to Great Yarmouth for over 20 years, used to love going there when on holiday in Norfolk.. My kids used to call the main street that leads to the seafront 'crap street' lol.
I'm pretty sure wheel chair access to the pier amusements is under the pier
Great Yarmouth is the only place I've visited in the UK that I vowed never to return to. Whilst the beach is impressive, the "architecture " opposite & around it is ugly, even derelict in places. Found the resort grim, depressing & unsafe. I think it has the highest violent crime rate in Norfolk. It makes Blackpool look like paradise.
congratulations on being the only sane person in this comment section.
I've had my own nasty experience there at night. Pure evil when the sun goes down
I've had thousands, no exaggeration.@@joeo1725
@@joeo1725 I live here and won't go out after dark. The violent crime here has accelerated at a frightening rate. I use to love the place (moved here 1981) can't wait to move out of the town now.
Love Yarmouth, proper childhood memories, I was there is August and saw Jim Davidson.
You get lovely exercise walking on the beach and it's free. It truly is lovely there
the sea used to come right up under the pier but since they built the outer harbour it no longer does
Gt Yarmouth is most probably the cleanest and most well kept of all the seaside resorts and I have been to all of them
Its a lot better than Blackpool and Skegness
Cromer is more classy and nicer Gy has gone down the pan. But still remind me of caravan holiday with my family when I was a kid lol
I still like Gy regardless
The hippodrome is an indoor circus with pool, the winter gardens are slowly going to be renovated
Love your video subscribed today enjoying your content did u do any videos of Hunstanton I heard u mentioned it many thanks 😊
Not yet, I’ve just been there loads of times
I was there on my family vacation staying at Vauxhall holiday park that’s got very warm cosy luxury lodges, we stayed for 7 days during the summer school holidays it’s literally a 5 minute drive from Vauxhall we were pretty much doing a beach detour in the car at Gorleston beach Great Yarmouth it’s such a great seaside town extremely touristy, on the quieter warmer sunny days it’s better which is awesome rather than actually being on the busy hectic days that’s totally rammed gives your more direct access to the attractions especially with a walk ons instead the long tedious waiting queuing times
Definitely agree with you about Harry ramsdens - very overpriced
Love the place, you should also go Banger racing which is a great nights entertainment.