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Time and Tide Museum

Blackfriars Road, Great Yarmouth NR30 3BX, England
01493 ​743930
5.0 of 5 stars 46 Reviews
Type: Museums
Useful Information: Activities for young children, Activities for older children
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- 28 May 2012
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Great Yarmouth
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11 reviews 11 reviews
11 helpful votes 11 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed 28 May 2012 NEW

Go back in time and see what Great Yarmouth was like when the "silver darlings" (herrings) were the main source of trade. See The Rows how they were back then, and how the Scottish lassies lived while they were here gutting the fish.

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Grimsby, United Kingdom
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7 reviews 7 reviews
1 helpful vote 1 helpful vote
5 of 5 stars Reviewed 14 May 2012

found the museum very interesting and learnt quite a lot

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Lowestoft
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16 reviews 16 reviews
1 helpful vote 1 helpful vote
5 of 5 stars Reviewed 11 May 2012

A superb large museum housed in a building directly associated with the bygone herring fishing industry. Wonderful and informative displays and exhibits, hoewever when we went to the Time and Tide there did seem to be a shortage of staff with an indepth knowledge of fishing - one in the shop did not know the difference between a drifter and... More

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Essex
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6 reviews 6 reviews
9 helpful votes 9 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed 28 April 2012

Excellent all round . A must to visit. very good. informative, interesting and a great experience. It opens yours eyes and gives a great history lesson. It really is a must.

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Great Yarmouth
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5 reviews 5 reviews
2 helpful votes 2 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed 26 April 2012

Very true to the stories I was told as a child. The herring industry has gone but the Time and Tide Museum gives real feel (and smell!) of what life was like in those times

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Brentwood, United Kingdom
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12 helpful votes 12 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed 26 April 2012

Daugher went on school trip and said it will brilliant.

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Sandhurst
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5 reviews 5 reviews
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 23 April 2012

Got there in the middle of a fire training just at the opening! Could experience the stair-chair in use before I could go and have a wander around the beautifully preserved building. Amazing history about Great Yarmouth itself, during and before the Great War, time when the town had its ups and downs. How and when they made history. Learning... More

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norfolk
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7 reviews 7 reviews
6 helpful votes 6 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed 23 April 2012

a really great museum,authentic smell of kippers in the smokehouse,the 'street' with its tiny houses in the rows,particularly interested in the second world war theme and saw an indoor air raidshelter that my mother used.all in all well worth the visit and thoroughly enjoyable and interesting

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Grays Thurrock, United Kingdom
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8 reviews 8 reviews
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 21 April 2012

the museum was great we took the talking radios with us and it was very interesting, the smell of kippers makes it really great to think that people had to work with that smell day in day out.

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London
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3 reviews 3 reviews
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 19 April 2012

Very interesting museum, models slightly scary, wouldn't want to be the a member of staff wandering around the museum at night when the models come to life in the "Row"

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