Your Memories of Leisure and Entertainment in Great Yarmouth

Photo:A Local Football team in the 1950s

A Local Football team in the 1950s

Great Yarmouth Museums

Photo:The Royal Aquarium Theatre in the 1960s

The Royal Aquarium Theatre in the 1960s

great Yarmouth Tourism Office

Photo:A couple dancing at the Floral Hall in Gorleston in the 1950s

A couple dancing at the Floral Hall in Gorleston in the 1950s

Great Yarmouth Museums

Share your memories of how leisure and entertainment have changes since the 1940s
By Laura Matthews

Did you used to go dancing at the Floral Hall?

Were you a Teddy boy or a Mod?

Do you remember what it used to be like to go to the cinema or theatre in Great Yarmouth?

Were you a member of a local sports team?

If you have any memories or photographs of these and any other leisure activities that you would like to share with us click on the comments button at the bottom of this page to add your information or click here to add your own page.

This page was added by Laura Matthews on 02/05/2007.

Comments about this page

The best dances I remember at the Floral Hall were the Erie Resistor dances when the Ted Heath band often played, with singers Dennis Lotis and Lita Roza.
I was in a skiffle group ( The Sundowners) and one of our biggest gigs was the publicity ball at the Floral Hall in 1958.

By brian wadsworth
On 11/04/2008

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