Great Yarmouth, King Street 1896
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Photo ref: 37958
Photo of Great Yarmouth, King Street 1896

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This is the busiest and main shopping street in Great Yarmouth. Everything is available here, from wine (left) to shoes (right). The family-owned businesses are thriving with the absence of department stores. Most of the attractive lamp-posts are used for advertising. The policeman in the foreground is casting a watchful and perhaps thirsty eye on the wine barrels being transported slowly up the street. A number of superstitious people are avoiding walking under the window cleaners' ladders on the left and right.

Memories of Great Yarmouth, King Street 1896

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There is a public house on the front right of this photo. If you look closely, you will see it is named "The Rose" and the initials GWJ are above the door. My great-grandfather, George William Jones, owned this pub at the time this photo was taken. George died in 1896 and his wife, Annie Rowell Jones came to America with two of his children, Edith and George, who was my grandfather. A third child, Norah Rowell ...see more