Norwich and Norfolk by Stephen Browning

Author:Stephen Browning
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History / Europe / Great Britain / General
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: 2020-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

You are now close to the town’s shopping centre and a short walk along Tolhouse Street brings you to the Tolhouse Museum which houses a twelfth-century gaol. You can see the original cells and there is a free audio guide describing the experiences of prisoners. It is next to the library where there are toilet facilities.

The walk ends here leaving you close to the centre of town.

The Tolhouse Museum

Finds of both fossils and historical artefacts sometimes occur after storms and have been found in Great Yarmouth. The following relates to an event in the northern part of town. Francis Worship writes in Norfolk Archaeology of how, following,

the awful hurricane on Tuesday, 28th February 1860 … a man engaged in collecting boulders for building purposes, found on a sand-hill on the North Denes a decayed leathern bag containing seventy silver groats of Henry VIII … The silver is of inferior quality, and all the coins appear to be of ‘the very bad money’… issued in the 36th and 37th years of Henry’s reign.

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