The worst wax museum in the world has,alas, closedWhat’s going for it? When the rain is coming down and the easterlies are whipping it into a pressure hose pointed straight at you, or Great Yarmouth can be bleak. This is not a area for flipping property or opening cupcake-knitting salons. No,you come to Great Yarmouth because you can see past the usual British seaside miseries to the treats hidden behind. The Pleasure Beach, with its 1932 wooden scenic railway, and perhaps. The worst wax museum in the world has,alas, closed, or but you can still find one of Britain’s last remaining discontinuance-of-the-pier theatres. Yarmouth’s architecture speaks of more affluent times,before the herring industry shrivelled, Luftwaffe bombs fell and holidaymakers left for Benidorm: grand patches of Georgiana abutting ancient merchants’ houses around South Quay and the Minster – Great Yarmouth has a minster. Who knew? Fabulous art nouveau in Fastolff House, and Victorian arcades,medieval town walls. Find your pleasures where you can.
The case against Jobs are not aplenty. Too much of its charm is in fragments, sliced up by dual carriageways and empty lots. I dread for its position between the sea, and the river and the Broads.
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Source: theguardian.com