Anyone ever been to Great Yarmouth?
 

Thinking of going on a holiday later in the year to Great Yarmouth - went once when I was about 12 - anyone know anything good about it, you know - things to do, things to see, etc.

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Remember going year’s ago, in uniform, got ******, pee'd in some large body of water and woke up somewhere totally different.

Not much help I know……but I've been :)

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No not much help....


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I had relatives there, one of my cousins was born and raised there, and it always seemed a pleasant enough place. There was a sort of Pleasure Beach on the sea-front, it was about on a par with Southport's, and the beaches were quite nice. There was lovely (flat) countryside inland too and some lovely little villages.

I haven't been for 45 years (relations moved to Essex) so I have no idea how much it's changed. Anyway, it's worth a visit just to hear the fabulous Norfolk accent.

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Sounds promising but 45 year old information might not quite be right....


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Tha-a-a-at's Norfolk we're talkin' 'bout, gal. Tha-a-a-t's not changed much in one hundred year, never moind forty foive. :rolleyes:

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Ooooo arrrrr! Oim luuuking foirward to it.

Although that could be my irish accent coming out. hehe

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Hi Gayle, i live 12 miles from Great Yarmouth and go there at least once a week. Half the people i know like Yarmouth-the other half think its awful.Good points-pleasurebeach,time +tide museum,trips to see seals off scroby sands,sealife centre,racecourse,greyhound racing,plenty of wildlife parks/zoos close by,take a boat on broads.bad points too many assylum seekers.

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Now you see that's what I was looking for folks. With a name like Norwich Stanley I wouldn't have expected anything less. Thank you for your help, that sounds ok.

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It'll soon be underwater.:D

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Gayle, I went a couple of times in my youth with mates (you can probably guess who) but don't remember a great deal about it apart from we met Keith Chegwin in a nightclub and saw a cabaret in the Windmill theatre (I think) starring Lennie Bennett (anyone remember him?) Freddie Starr and Lisa Stansfield before anyone had heard of her. The one thing that does stick in my memory was we had a really good time although this may have been down to the people I was with, like I said it was a long time ago. Oh and there was some go karts.

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Been many times on business Gayle, mainly in the Winter, however, did go once in the summer and the beach is lovely and think has the right mixture of entertainment for the kids, a little, but not too much that will drain your purse.

A mix of good restaurants and night life ... good port too which is interesting and decent shopping. Yes, quite nice.

Problem is Norfolk so bloody flat ..road from Norwich to Yarmouth tedious.
Take ya' about 5 and half hours from Ossie.

I think definitely worth a visit though as different type of surrounding area to what we are used to .. better than most North West resorts.

Don't know what type of accommmodation you would be seeking, but decent caravan site as you are entering the town.

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We had a couple of holidays touring the broads during the nineties and called into Great Yarmouth on both occasions. I remember a lovely beach and an excellent theme park.

Most of the pubs etc seem to be named from the Charles Dickens book 'David Copperfield' and I recall a really rude barman in Peggoty's.

I think it would be a good holiday for children.

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I went on holiday there in 2000, we stayed at Seashore (Haven), we enjoyed it so much we booked for the following year whilst we were there. The beach was good, the pleasure beach is on a par with Southport (as someone else said earlier). We had our granchildren with us (at the time they were 6 and 8), and there was lots for them to see and do, without it costing the earth. I know the countryside is flat but there are lots of lovely little villages. When we went in 2001 we hired a boat for the day on the Broads which we all enjoyed. I am sure your children would love it there.

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It's quite nice, gayle, just stay away from the toilets at north end lol .
It's quite a clean place.
Have they done that monument yet norwich stanley or have they knocked it down ?

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Hey, just checked that one out claytonender, looks good and Gayle, in August the Krankies are on and another week Gerry and the Pacemakers, what more could you ask for ! :D

Hey and just noticed a group called the Mad Hatters . will be right at home.. ha ha.

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Surely they must be coming to Ossy Civic Theatre as well?

Just have a night in Great Yarmouth and then you can follow them all round the country on tour.

Home from home.:)

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cyanide should help her get over the excitement

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had a great holiday there, though about 20 years ago,kids loved it and so did we,norwich is a lovely little city,was there last june, dont think you,ll go far wrong, theres some good little resorts just up the coast a bit, broads are great also.:)

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Do you mean Nelsons monument? if so £500,000 has just been spent on it, and it is no longer "at risk".

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It all sounds good, we're stopping at Hopton (Haven) which is just a little way out of Great Yarmouth but still has a great beach apparently. Shame I'll miss out on the Krankies but I'm sure that Hopton has equally bad cabaret as well.

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YES I DO, yay thats great news, thats one less impressive monument at risk. Boy is that tall. wonder how it compares to nelsons column which is also being repaired at the moment.:) :) :) :) :)

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Yep, I remember some great crazy golf courses down there, the American Theme Park at Corton and you can get the train to Norwich which is worth a look around. Mind you we did spend the week dancing to Freeez so it mayhave changed a little!:D

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Gayle: JUST DO IT !!! You won't be disappointed honest, trust me... x

Whoops just read yer last post, you are doing it :D

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Stuff the cabaret, didn't someone from your dim and distant past once comment on your knees?

You could come back a winner!:p

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do they still have the flying banana

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No, I commented on his knees!

Anyway, mine are more chunky than knobbly.:D

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I am sure you will have great holiday. I seem to remember there was a village just outside Great Yarmouth with a 'theme park' that sounded good. All old Norfolk farm things and old fair ground rides. I'll see if I can find it later today and put the link on here.

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That was the Bygone Village Claytonender-unfortunatly it has closed down and everything auctioned off.

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Does anyone know the date of this years Great Yarmouth Mela?

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i might be able to help if i knew what a mela was.

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it's a lancs word like lodge is a mill pond:rolleyes:
It's probably a carnival to us norwich stanley.

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It's a pop, curry and kebab festival which is paid for by secret donations going through the national Lottery. They're very common up in Lancashire.

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Mela is a Sanskrit word meaning get together. In modern usage in the United Kingdom it has become a term for a multicultural (though mainly Asian) festival incorporating music, dance, food and other aspects of British Asian culture in the UK.

Melas regularly are held in larger towns in the UK, especially in areas with large ethnic minority populations. They are often considered important as a way of improving relations between the "indigenous" (white) UK population and the Asian population. The Melas began in the nineteen nineties.

Public money is sometimes available for these festivals. They have also been seen as a way of ensuring that festivals are available for the whole population. (The Arts Council produced a study on this examining eleven festivals in the Leicester region).


I'd like to know when, because I'm by leicester and I've never heard of a mela.
so basically it's a word for carnival bought in to use by non whites because our word carnival or festival isn't good enough. A so called multicultural word.
Why don't you just call it what it's always been called.

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[quote=katex]Hey, just checked that one out claytonender, looks good and Gayle, in August the Krankies are on and another week Gerry and the Pacemakers, what more could you ask for ! :D
A little worrying as Gerry died last year!!

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Well you can't call it a P**s-up because no alcohol is allowed within a mile of the place...it's offensive to certain minorities. Meanwhile, other minorities can't get in - mind you, the Gays have their own lottery funded bash and the Jews are probably too busy raising war bond money. As for the feminists - forget it

We went through all this lot last year at this time, and I'm certain we had a solemn promise that there would be no more Accy Meles.

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[QUOTE=Uncle Mick]You sure Uncle Mick ? Haven had booked them for the 3rd August and can't find any reference to him passing away on the internet or having to pay 'The Ferryman' . There again, lots of these sites are out of date.

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[quote=Uncle Mick]Well unless he's playing a joint set with Derek Acorah I think he's alive and well because he's playing Burnley Mechanics too!

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There was no promise that there wouldn't be a Mela this year. Hyndburn couldn't find funding for one so we didn't think we'd be able to fund it but fortunately we have.

For anyone who isn't aware of the history here - Tealeaf doesn't like the idea of a community festival, he thinks we spending money on the wrong sort of people.

Btw - it's a Mela and Community Festival - last year it's was a really good mix of Asian and white who came and they all partied together without any bother.

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So, my critique on Haven's Hopton Holiday Village near Great Yarmouth.

We went to the pleasure beach at Great Yarmouth, Pettitts Animal Farm and Pleasure Wood Hills, plus saw the sand sculpture festival on Great Yarmouth beach, played crazy golf and spent a lot of time on the campsite enjoying the facilities, also spent a couple of days on the beach.

We won the bumper prize draw one evening plus the wildest, wackiest table competition one night. Maddie also won a competition one day and got to lead the animal parade around the room, Zack entered the fancy dress competition but didn't win. We joined in most of the morning activities and all of the evening ones. The site was totally geared up for kids and they had a fantastic time.

All in all, a really good holiday - I would definitely book with Haven holidays again whilst the kids are young - but would choose a different campsite next year simply for variety.

Great Yarmouth had plenty of things to do and I don't think we really spent enough time exploring but we never ran out of things to do.

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Glad you had a good holiday.:)

So elequently described, they will probably have you all on the cover of next year's brochure.

Should we be looking for you in a bikini on the cover or a one piece?;)

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Found an old photo......of mum and my 2 brothers at Great Yarmouth when I was about 6 or 7........I,m the one driving.......:D

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Gayle, I am glad you had a good holiday in Norfolk. I quite like the mix of entertainment at Haven, it is there if you want it, but you can always find lots of other things to do. I have just got back from a holiday to France. I went with my duhter and her family. We stayed at a Haven Europe campsite in St jean de Monts (thats in the Vendee). I can really recommend the area to anyone thinking of going. The French people were very helpful the beaches were great and food and drink was cheaper than in UK, (except in the bar onsite - which was English prices).

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Blimey, I've got a photo like that in my collection. Taken when I was about 6 or 7. Mind you that was the in mid 50's, but can still remember the photo being taken. Had many a good holiday in Yarmouth since, good all round family holiday area.

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Maybe I am a tad wrong but is it not just as cheap or cheaper to buzz to the Med than stay in GB for a beach holiday?

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Not really, I was looking at lastminute.com a few days before we went and the cheapest that I could find for a holiday for four was £900 and that doesn't include travel to airport and parking. We went to Great Yarmouth for £550 plus one full tank of petrol £60 which lasted the whole trip. Most of the entertainment was thrown in although we did go off the site a couple of days and we took a lot of food with us to keep costs down.

I reckon we'd have spent about £2,000 if we'd gone abroad for a week - £900 to get there plus car parking and food and going out, whereas I reckon it cost about £1,200 to go to Great Yarmouth. The saving is the price of the new bathroom suite that we want so definitely worth doing plus I think the kids probably had a better time than they would have if we'd gone abroad. Add to that the fact that we'd have been stuck in all the airport queues and mess - Great Yarmouth was a wise move!

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Shouldnt this thread be in the 'Questions & Answers' section :rolleyes: Just like the 'Primrose Valley' thread.. which was moved there ?

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I don't give a buggar about Gt. Yarmouth, Spain or wherever.

I will give you a tip, though, Gayle and it is this: When you get your new bathroom suite installed, whatever you do, do not get one of these eco-friendly water closets installed. These are the ones with the single/double flush, the double being roughly half the cubic capacity of the traditional English flush. if you do, the result after 6 weeks or so will be a blocked drain, an expensive bill and a recommendation that the loo is flushed as often as possible, using far more water than with the old style water tank. So stick to the old one, whatever old crap the salesman tries to push on you that it is now an EU requirement.