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Index of Articles featured in ‘Yarmouth Archaeology'
the annual publication of the Great Yarmouth & District Local History & Archaeological Society.

1979
The History & Archaeology of Gorleston Priory • Alec McEwen
The Victoria Building Company • A W Ecclestone
The Megalithic Yard [measurements] • K R Milligan
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1980
Great Yarmouth & the Cinematograph 1897-1915 • E W Goate
The Valley Line [railways] • Colin Tooke
Rampart Road, Great Yarmouth • Alec McEwen
Great Yarmouth 1784 1980 Pioneers of man-made fibres [Grouts] • Gordon Berry
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1981
The Market • J E Holmes
A Norfolk Family - Manby • C W Fassnidge
Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Caister by Yarmouth • Alec McEwen
Brick Making at Burgh Castle • Jeanne Milligan
The craft of the Well-sinker • Ron Varley
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1982
Gorleston's Shelter Hall & J W Cockrill • John Reed
Marine Archaeology • Percy Trett
The Clere Family of Ormesby • Barbara Cornford
Friends Meeting House • George Rye
Priory Plain Excavation • Alec McEwen
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1983
Whaling from Great Yarmouth • Charles Lewis
St.Edmund's Church, Fritton • C T A Beevor
Gariannonum and the Count of the Saxon Shore • K R Milligan
Caister Churches and their Dedication • Colin Tooke
Yarmouth Air Station • Kathleen Bell
The Columbia Fleet and Baroness Coutts • A W Ecclestone
Gorleston Pavilion (the entertainment) • E W Goate
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1984
Phillip Rumbelow (two appreciations of) • G Berry & P Trett
Great Yarmouth Fortifications 1750 • G Rye & C Tooke
The Ballast Trade of Great Yarmouth • Colin Tooke
Two "Little Yarmouth" Deeds • Paul Rutledge
On Search of Harborne • George Rye
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1985
Great Yarmouth Fortifications C1781-C1850 • G Rye & C Tooke
The Great Yarmouth Aquarium • E W Goate
The Norfolk Pillar [Nelson's Monument] • Pat Page
Day Excursions (an investigation) • Gordon Berry
Medieval Artists of Gorleston. • W F Edwards
The Goods of William Smyth • Paul Rutledge
1986
The Augustinian Priory Excavation • David Bullock
'Bauleah' an East Anglian/Indian Enterprise • Gordon Berry
7 Priests - 7 Poor Men (Fastolf's College) • Colin Tooke
The Great Yarmouth Musical Society • Various
A Short History of Coke Production • Alec McEwen
Landscape changes in 19th Century Bradwell • David Kennett
The Ancient Roman Religions • Cheryl Ward
Great Yarmouth Fortifications - Post 1850 • George Rye
1987
A ‘Bottled' history of Boots the Chemist • Terry Ashbourne
Those Golden Dragons • James Grimes
Yarmouth Iron Foundries • Alec McEwen
The Wellington Pier • Ted Goate
Witches of Salem from Great Yarmouth • Victor Stowers
Place Names in North-East Suffolk • David Kennett
The Boke of Knighthood • Colin Tooke
Great Yarmouth Fortifications 1880-1914 • George Rye
1988
A Short History of the Society • Colin Tooke
100 Years Ago - Great Yarmouth in 1888 • Damion Eaton
Reflections (of Great Yarmouth) • Nora Johnson
What they Ate in Great Yarmouth in 1888 • Gordon Berry
Regent Street (Great Yarmouth) • Terry Ashbourne
Museum Boulterianum • Colin Tooke
Parson Woodforde in Great Yarmouth • Victor Stowers
Great Yarmouth Fortifications 1914 to Present Day • George Rye
St.Pauls Church, Newtown • John Mobbs
North Quay - Past to Present • Vera Traynier
A Visit to Flegg in 1088 • Barbara Cornford
Archaeological Courses and Lectures • Andrew Fakes
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1989
George Gilbert and the Vivarium • Ted Goate
Great Yarmouth's Real "Dad's Army" • Neil Storey
The Ice Trade • Terry Ashbourne
Sir Francis Palgrave and his Sons • Victor Stowers
Robert Cory's Bridge • Colin Tooke
The Wesleyan Gourlay Day School • Gordon Berry
John Woodger & Sons - Fish Curers • Andrew Woodger
William Harbet's Diary • Paul Rutledge
1990
Shipley & Son • Terry Ashbourne
The Havens and Marshes of Great Yarmouth. • Arthur Lark
Bare Knees and Broomsticks • Gordon Berry
David Abraham Gourlay • Colin Tooke
Before the Walls (of Great Yarmouth) • Paul Rutledge
Yarmouth Outside the North Gate • George Rye
Excavations at No.12 Hall Quay • George Rye
George Rye (an appreciation of) • Colin Tooke
1991
Recently Discovered Plans & Drawings • Colin Tooke
Boating on the Norfolk Broads • Terry Ashbourne
St.Nicholas Church, Gorleston • Alec McEwen
The de Mautby Family at Mautby • Barbara Cornford
The Town House and Dutch Chapel • Colin Tooke
Great Yarmouth 16thC. River Fishing • Shirley Harris
Great Yarmouth Outside the North Gate • Alec McEwen
Sylas Neville - Sometime Squire of Scratby • Victor Stowers
Pre-History in the Yarmouth Area • Andrew Fakes
The Wokingham Mystery • Gordon Berry
1992
The Fisherman's Hospital • Terry Ashbourne
Fritton Lake in Wartime • Jack Grice
Brief History of Methodism in Gorleston to 1866 • Betty Taylor
The Yarmouth Spit • Alec McEwen
Great Yarmouth's Haven Bridges • John Audley
Great Yarmouth Mineral Water Manufacturers • Colin Tooke
Sir James Paget Bart 1814-1899 • Victor Stowers
1993
Yarmouth Crossword No.1 • John McBride
Church-building in Great Yarmouth 1830-1900 • G Rye & P Rutledge
History of the 1st 50 years of Gorleston Golf Club • Beryl Browne
The History of Norfolk Line in Great Yarmouth • John McBride
The Lacons in Ormesby • Frank Bent
The Great Yarmouth Water Works Company • Colin Tooke
Marine Parade Uncovered • John Audley
Southtown - It's Growth & Development • Terry Ashbourne
Old Norfolk Housen • G W Beech
1994
Yarmouth Crossword No.2 • John McBride
The Gorleston Lights • Diana Hanson
Great Yarmouth Market Cross • Terry Ashbourne
Edward Goate (an appreciation of) • Colin Tooke
Switchback Railway & Hotchkiss Bicycle Railway • Ted Goate
The Ferrier Family Papers • Paul Rutledge
Southtown Windmills • Terry Ashbourne
Marine Parade Uncovered - Part 2 • John Audley
Yarmouth River & Walls Seen from St.Nicholas Church Tower • Arthur Lark
Lacons "Falcon" Brewery • Colin Tooke
1995
Yarmouth Crossword No.3 • John McBride
Great Yarmouth Front Line Town • Barbara Francis
The Ruined Parish Churches of the Fleggs • Frank Bent
Whale Bones in and Around Great Yarmouth • Nicholas Redman
Revolving Observation Towers • Alec McEwen
Dawson Turner FRS • Michael Bean
Pavilions on Britannia Pier • Diana Hanson
Filby Unitarian Chapel • Colin Tooke
The Co-op Dairy in Great Yarmouth • Terry Ashbourne
1996
Masonic Royal Assembly Rooms • C Beevor & T Ashbourne
Of Claxton, Nelson, Peggotty's House & Co. • Geoff Mead
The Breydon Wrecks • Peter Allard
Sixteenth Century Flegg Wills • Jennifer Walpole
Gt Yarmouth's Other North Sea Ferry Operators • John McBride
Methodism in Caister-on-Sea • Colin Tooke
Anna Sewell House • Terry Ashbourne
Fruits of the Field • Russell Smith
The Life of a Building • Diana Hanson
Building Plaque Survey • Society Members
1997
Great Yarmouth Firsts • John McBride
Martha Rudd of Winterton • Victor Stowers
Revolving Towers - Additional Information • Alec McEwen
A Theatre for Two Hundred Years • John Audley
A W Morant - Engineer & Architect • Terry Ashbourne
Old Apples on Yarmouth Market • Jim Holmes
The Bure Bridge & Acle New Road Tollhouses • Peter Allard
Decline in Flegg Craft Businesses • Ray Walpole
William Adams - A Yarmouth Hero • Diana Hanson
The Early History of St.Magdalene Church • Beryl Browne
The Ormesby Enclosure Act of 1845 • Shirley Harris
Icehouses in Yarmouth & Gorleston - Update • Terry Ashbourne
1998
Marine Parade North - The Boating Lake & Waterways • Terry Ashbourne
Letter Boxes in the Great Yarmouth Area • Peter Allard
Henry Clay's Pops • Colin Tooke
The South Denes Power Station • Diana Hanson
The ‘Silver Tickets' • Colin Tooke
The Dissenter's Burial Ground • Brian Hanson
Lacon's Brewery, Fullers Hill, Yarmouth Excavations by the Norfolk Archaeological Unit • Niall Donald
The River Bure Railway Bridge, Great Yarmouth • Peter Allard
Silk Come to Great Yarmouth [Grouts] • Gordon Berry
Everyday Life in Eighteenth Century Yarmouth • Jennifer Walpole
Some Traditional Norfolk Recipes • Sue Smith
1999
Railways In and Around Great Yarmouth • John McBride
The Norfolk History Fair 1998 • Terry Ashbourne
The Drainage of Southtown Marshes • Peter Allard
The Origins & Early Development of Great Yarmouth • Paul Rutledge
The Building of Yarmouth's First Electricity Works • Peter Brown
Electricity to Gorleston • Peter Brown
The River Bure Railway Bridge - An Update • Peter Allard
Hill House & the Garnham Estate • Terry Ashbourne
2000
Cantley Sugar Factory • Diana Hanson
Yarmouth's First Glassworks • Paul Rutledge
War, Mail, Bullion & Bell [Continental Mail;HMS Lutine etc. C.1799] • John McBride
Bradwell Needs a Playing Field • Brian E Callan
Admiral Lord Duncan (The Battle of Camperdown) • Norman Fryer
Great Yarmouth and the Black Death • Andrew Fakes
Buying the Wintergardens • John McBride
Local Milestones • Peter Allard
A Night to Remember (The Great Flood of 1953) • Russell Smith
The History of the Wellesley Recreation Ground • David Tubby
The Breydon Water ‘Dickey Works' • Peter Allard
The Koolunga Riddle • Terry Ashbourne
The Intricacies of Obtaining a Grant of Arms for the Gt Yarmouth Port Authority. • Michael Boon
Gt. Yarmouth Gilbert & Sullivan Society (A Short History) • Dorothy Pearce
2001
Great Yarmouth's First Garden Suburb • Terry ashbourne
The Great Yarmouth Relief in Need Trust • Peter Brown
Great Yarmouth Textiles in World War 2 [Grouts] • Richard Gordon Berry
The Southtown Fishwharf • Peter Allard
John King's Winterton Diary • Peter Brown
The Gorleston Beach Company's Tragedies (1866 & 67) • Russell Smith
Sad Day at Yarmouth [The Bure Bridge Tragedy] • Diana Hanson
Letter boxes in the Great Yarmouth Area (an update) • Peter Allard
Lottery • Diana Hanson
2002
Banking in Great Yarmouth • John McBride
Scratby Sands  • Diana Hanson
Water's Mill, Mill Road, Southtown • Peter Allard
The South Denes Racecourse • David Tubby
Some Interesting Graves in Local Churchyards • Diana Hanson
A Personal Account of the 1953 Floods • the late Daisy Stuart
He Made and Lost Fortunes - James Pitchers Jnr • Peter Allard
Great Yarmouth Community Archaeology Project  • Frank Bent
2003
The Grange • Alan Hunt
Life on a Dig for an Archaeology Student • Louise Wright
Stolworthy's the Yarmouth Millwright • Peter Allard
A Great Feast • Diana Hanson
Great Yarmouth's DryDocks • Peter Allard
The Circus in Great Yarmouth - 1845-1903 • Colin Tooke
The Poll Tax in Great Yarmouth 1990-1993 • Peter Brown
Location of a Building Site • Alan Hunt
Kelly's Directories for Great Yarmouth • Peter Allard
2004
The Iron Foundry in Row 127 • Terry Ashbourne
Iron Foundry of Thomas Bradley • Terry Ashbourne
Richard Barnes, Millwright & Engineer, Gt Yarmouth. • Peter Allard
The Fairs • Colin Tooke
A List of Yarmouth Directories • Peter Allard
Storm at Sea • Norman Fryer
A Directory of Great Yarmouth 1885 • Peter Jones
Gas Supply in Great Yarmouth & Gorleston. • Terry Ashbourne
Philip Ernest Rumbelow 1879-1954 - An Appreciation • Michael Bean
Beachmen's Tragedies ‘Zephyr' 1885; ‘Skylark' 1903 • Russell Smith
History of Flying at Caister Road Airfield • Peter Allard
The Mutiny in Yarmouth Harbour 1553 • Andrew J Fakes
Puritan Migration from Norfolk to North America • Frank Bent
 
2005
Moving the Racecourse • David Tubby
E. C. Saunders - Yarmouth Taxidermist & Naturalist • Peter Allard
Who Wrote the Norfolk Gridiron?. • Ron Fiske
William T. England - Yarmouth Millwright • Peter Allard
Great Yarmouth & the Boer War • Peter Allard
Captain Samuel Yarwood Porter • John McBride
St. John's Church, The Sailors Home, The Lifeboat House, and the Story of Samuel Brock's Swim • Carl Boult
Great Yarmouth Shipping Company • Russell Smith
Coals to Norwich • Gordon Berry
Thomas Nashe - Elizabethan Yarmouth's Uninvited Guest • Victor Stowers
Brave Men, Brave Deeds • Stewart William Adams & Dr Ian F Keymer
The Mystery of the Martham Flint Houses • Ann Meakin
2006
Pleasure Gardens • Colin Tooke
Frederick Cooper - Local Cinema Magnate • Terry Ashbourne
Yarmouth's Beach Sailing Boats • Peter Allard
The Independent Labour Party in Gt. Yarmouth 1906-14 • Michael Wadsworth
Cornelius Jansen Walter Winter • Colin Tooke
The Halvergate Steam Mill • Peter Allard
John William Cockerill M.Inst.C.E., A.R.I.B.A 1849-1924 • Ann Dunning
Barking Men Move North • Peter Allard
Anecdotes Regarding the Late David Ferrow • Andrew J Fakes
2007
The Docks That Never Were • Michael Wadsworth
The Southtown Mill That Moved to Southwold • Peter Allard
The Beaconsfield Recreation Ground • David Tubby
Great Yarmouth & Gorleston-on-Sea 1928 • Terry Ashbourne
The First Roman Catholic Church in Gorleston • Peter Allard
The History of Trinity House in Great Yarmouth • Peter Allard
A Bishop's Boyhood in Edwardian Yarmouth • Victor Stowers
David Ferrow - Antiquarian Book Seller of Yarmouth • Peter Allard
Reflections on King John's Charter 1208 • Andrew J Fakes
The Bell •
2008
The Two Gorleston Windmills • Peter Allard
Amy Mildred Rayner • William Rayner
No. 19 Hall Quay • Beryl Brown
The Great Yarmouth Smack Boys Home • Pete Allard
The 1914 Strike at Grouts Silk Mill • Michael Wadsworth
The Southtown Base of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen • Peter Allard
Celerbrations of the 800th Anniversary of the Charter Granted by King John • Michael Boon
Scenic Railway • Alan Hunt
Article by Russell Smith • Russell Smith & Andrew J Fakes

Society Excursions • Shirley Harris
2009

Samuel Barge - Ironmonger of Great Yarmouth • Peter Allard
Photo - The Queen in Yarmouth Market Place 1977 •
Gorleston Recreation Ground • David Tubby
William Christmas Mack A Victorian Organ Builder of Great Yarmouth • Paul Davies / Andrew Hayden

Photograph - Yarmouth Market Place c.1960 •
100 Anniversary of Brave Sea Rescue
Robert Gilham Marjorie & Joe Gilham, Carl Boult & Peter Barber
The 1948 Caister Royal Mail Helicopter Experiment• Peter Allard
Crabtree’s of Southtown (Part One 1883-1910) • Peter Allard
World War II Decoy Sites at Somerton & Winterton • Andrew J Fakes
British Prisoners of War 1813 in Napoleonic France • Patricia Wills-Jones

The Second World War in Hemsby • Andrew Fakes
Photograph - Gorleston Links Halt 1970 •
List of Blue Plaques Erected by Great Yarmouth & District Local History & Archaeological Society

2010

Terracotta Tiles & Mouldings in Gt. Yarmouth & Gorleston Beryl Browne
The Prospects of Yarmouth
Colin Tooke
A Runaway Who Made Good - Frederick Wenn
Peter Allard
Religion, Bigotry and Persecution in the English Civil War Period in Great Yarmouth
Andrew Fakes
The Firm of Walter Drake, Stevedores of Yarmouth
Peter Allard
Continental Pleasure Trips from Yarmouth - 1966
Peter Allard
Items from Early 19th Century Newspapers
Andrew Fakes
Before the Theatre Royal in Yarmouth Early 18th Century
Michael Boon
Gorleston-on-Sea Railway Station Chris Robin Wright
Great Yarmouth Gaol Escapes 1835 - 1875
Chris Robin Wright

2011

The Compass Stone Colin Tooke & Alec McEwen
Farming in the Fleggs - 1800 to 1914 • David Tubby
Ship Breaking in Great Yarmouth
Peter Allard
The Plaque placed on the Ship Inn in Howard Street
Paul Davies
South Town Railway Station Andrew Fakes
South Town Railway Station Plaque Paul Davies
Nelson's Three Visits to Great Yarmouth - and a map of his voyages from 1777 to 1805 Colin Tooke & Alan Hunt
The Trinity House Figurehead Peter Allard
Lacon's Brewery Plaque Andrew Fakes & Margaret Gooch
Plaque to Commemorate the Rev. Forbes Phillips Andrew Fakes & Margaret Gooch
The Ghost of Cerdic From GYAS bulletin 26 in 1972
Yarmouth in 1757 From GYAS bulletin 45 in 1976
Great Yarmouth Settlement Pattern
Paul Ruttledge
The History of North Denes Heliport Peter Allard




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