Recalling Great Yarmouth's celebrated visitors
During the summer holidays, Great Yarmouth is one of our best- loved resorts.
And at the heart of the seaside town's Museum of Time and Tide, is a gallery devoted to the Herring Girls. From the late nineteenth century until after the Second World War, these Scottish fisherwomen descended on Yarmouth by train and boat in their thousands.
Crowding the quays, as they gutted a fish a second, the Herring Girls became a tourist attraction in their own right. Susan Gray visited the former herring curing works, now home to a Museum and met up with research student Jane Liffen, who is writing a study on the women, but first she spoke to some visitors with vivid memories of the Herring Girls...
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