Created and presented by Kevin Shaw, at the Royal Solent Yacht Club in Yarmouth on 19th January 2013.

1. Yarmouth ~ Life & Changes
In the Earlier 20 Century
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2. The Norman grid-work layout of Baldwin de
Redvers new Town of Yarmouth in 1135

3. When Yarmouth’s first tidal mill was built in the 1660s, the flow
of water between the River Yar and Thorley Brook was blocked
by an embankment which created a mill pond behind it on the
Thorley side. Here is the ‘new’ 1793 tidal mill - for making flour.

4. Yarmouth in 1718 – Two MPs ‘served’ this tiny community for nearly 250 years!

5. A strong north wind produces troubles off shore in the 1830s or early 1840s

6. Yarmouth in 1838
(by Brannon)
Notable: the Old Sand House (Hayles Boatyard, one of the oldest buildings
in Yarmouth), the Mill (1793) and in the distance Freshwater Church

7. Yarmouth in 1865
(the same Brannon print amended and updated !!)
Now Note: the new Breakwater and Harbour (built1843-47)
and the new Bridge connecting with Norton (opened 1860)

8. Yarmouth from the old bridge (opened 1860), photographed c. 1875

9. Some 40 years on (c.1906) and little had changed!

10. Photograph of the Pier entrance c. 1890 – Note the
‘Posting Establishment’ on the left and the Dolphin Inn beyond.

11. The Impressively Smart Post Office Staff c.1910

12. The Pier Staff in the early 1920s

13. The Pier Staff with local Transport Men c. 1930

14. The Solent Yacht Club just
months after its opening
in 1898

15. ‘Red Wings’ at the Solent Yacht Club Regatta of 1902

16. The Square, looking towards the Solent, in c.1890

17. The Buildings in today’s Pier
Square, which were demolished
in 1894

18. Quay Street and the
front of The George
Hotel in 1867
The George was
enlarged to replace
the buildings on the
right in the 1890s
and was re-opened
in 1897 as the Pier
Hotel, which it
remained until 1929.

19. The Pier Hotel c. 1905 – with today’s familiar
George having been extended

20. The ‘George’ in 1905 – Renamed the Pier Hotel
between 1897 and 1929

21. The paddle-steamer
‘Freshwater’
The end of the Pier was the point of entry & departure
for foot passengers

22. The passenger p/s ‘Freshwater’ : in service from 1927 to 1959

23. Yarmouth
Slipway
in 1912

24. Cars being carried in ‘Tow-Boats’ across the Solent in the mid-1930s

25. Loading Transport Boats at the Quay in the early 1930s

26. Notice the Gasometers
Preparation of the New Quay and Slipway in 1938

27. Unloading on the new Slipway in 1938 –
the year the first car ferry was introduced

28. The Lymington – The first (roll-on-roll-off) Car Ferry –
for which the new Quay was built, entered service in 1938

29. Harry Mills’s
‘Supply Store’
in c. 1913
N.B. Notice all
the local shop
fronts stretching
up the High
Street

30. Fryer’s
Butcher Shop
in the High
Street
c. 1913

31. Mr. Jack Fryer
in c.1920

32. Harry Mills & Son c 1930

33. Mr. Elderfield with his Donkey and ‘Dust Cart’ c. 1930

34. The Mew Langton Dray in Yarmouth (where?)
between the Wars, probably in the 1920s

35. Farm Workers at Thorley – thought to be c 1912

37. Watching the Meet of the IW Foxhounds in 1909

38. Across the Road at the same Meet in 1909

39. The Cast of the Yarmouth Pageant – ‘Pier’ Hotel Garden, c.1928

40. IOW League Winners
Yarmouth United F.C. 1921-22

41. The Opening of the Recreation Ground in 1935

42. ‘Dolphin Cottages’, one-time tea rooms, being visited by royalty – perhaps
Queen Mary or Princess Beatrice in the 1920s?

43. Yarmouth
Carnival Queen
of 1912
Miss Rita Hall

44. Mr Jim Cooper –
with a large
balloon
Yarmouth Carnival
Celebrations in
1948

45. The Common and The Mount c. 1914

46. The Mount - from the South side

47. The Last of the Dashwoods: Theresa, Cuthbert, Caroline & Constance (d.1966)

48. A Garden Party
at Westhill
in 1908
Note: HMS Gladiator
being salvaged in the
background

49. First Motor Lifeboat ‘B.A.S.P.’ which served Yarmouth from
1924 – 1934. It was 45 feet long and could do 8 knots

50. The Lifeboat Crew in 1925

51. Yarmouth School in 1867

52. Planting the Coronation Oak – August 9th 1902

53. Yarmouth Schoolgirls - 1921

54. Effy Pitman
and her
cousins
c.1930?

55. St James’s Church
Completed in 1626
The main entrance to the church
was, in line with most, at the
western end. Only when motor
traffic made that too dangerous
did the side (Northern door)
become the entrance which we
still use.

56. A beach outing for the Rector and group of Sunday School teachers

57. The locomotive ‘Freshwater’ on a trial trip
on the new Railway at Yarmouth in 1888

58. Yarmouth
Station
The Railway embankment across the modern marshes probably ruined the
millpond and possibly explained the final decline of the Mill in the late C19th

59. A Train steaming across the flooded Marshes
(of Thorley Haven) in October 1909

60. The Island had a good Railway Network by the mid 20th century,
though with only one line to the West Wight, which closed in 1953

61. A train from Newport arriving at Yarmouth Station

62. Yarmouth
Harbour
c.1867
Notice how much of it was silted up – and here not even at low tide

63. Aerial View from the West in the 1920s

64. Yarmouth in 1937
* Notice the main road from the Old Bridge ran straight into the Square
* There was no Ticket Office (or Shenanigans) hiding the Castle wall
By 1986-7 much new land had been reclaimed, including
* Nearly all of theextended quay for the ferry and the new public
the widely current Slipway area, along with the Green, the
Car Park and the Main Road skirting Yarmouth from the roundabout
ring-road sytem linking with the new bridge
were still under water … at least at high tide

65. Back Lane (Tennyson Road) c.1920
which led to ‘The Mount’ until 1966

66. To Conclude ….
Yarmouth Square – abuzz with activity – in the late 1950s

67. 1000
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Best Estimates
of the Fluctuating Population of Yarmouth
over the Past 1000 Years

68. Other Pictures for Inclusion Next Time
Smiths welcomed 1948
Passenger Shelter – Sandhard
The Common 1912
The Home Guard
The Scouts 1918
The Common End of High
Street (inc Milkman)

69. The grid lay-out of the original Norman town of Yarmouth
The Solent
Sea East
Gate Gate
The
Square
River Hither Gate
Yar

70. ‘Sea Birds’ at the Solent Yacht Club Regatta of 1902

71. An Aerial View looking across Yarmouth Harbour pre-1938