About Great Yarmouth and its history

Braving the floods in Yarmouth

The day the deluge came

January 31 is a date that will forever remain prominent in the minds of older Great Yarmouthians and east Norfolk coastal residents. Every year, when the calendar turns, their thoughts inevitably think back to that fateful Saturday night in 1953 when devastating floods surged in to cause death, damage and danger.

 

The first holiday camp

The entire British holiday camp industry owes its origin to a Caister landowner, John Fletcher Dodd, who pioneered the holiday camp which has developed from his concept almost a century ago into the up-market, all-mod-con centres of 2005 that provide the entertainment and facilities of such range and quality that their guests need not venture beyond the gates unless they want to do so.