Great Yarmouth Tourism Video 1963 

I love that the Snails in Joyland have been stood there all this time, along with the rollercoaster at Pleasure Beach

My late father would have loved to seen this video clip of Great Yarmouth in the 50s.

I spent many happy holidays down here in the 60's & 70's (not 50's!) and remember it well. Actually so much looks the same yet it has a different feel to it. Definitely a thriving town back in the day

Great memories of caravan holidays on the south denes in the 80s as a kid.

I love great Yarmouth and seeing the snail ride and peddle cars I loved the peddle cars they have gone now but happy times

What a fabulous video. As a kid growing up in Norwich, we often used to go to Great Yarmouth on a Sunday outing. I remember loving to ride on the Snails and the brief shot of the Gypsy fortune teller is still a familiar face to me. I loved the Roller coaster, even if it was a bit scary, it still stands today I believe.I live in South Africa now, but I have such fond memories of an East Anglian childhood.

I wanna go on the 'please secure your valuables' ride! What a perfect little video. Go Yarmouth!

Great Memories! It's good to see so much effort going into making Yarmouth Great again too. The new extended seafront and refurbished Wellington Pier (which was totally derelict a few years back) and the new Time and Tides Museum in the old town are really worth a visit. I hear now that passengers can travel the Venetian Waterways again by boat, after a multi-decade break in services!

I met the great love of my life in Great Yarmouth during the summer of ;64. A hard Day's Night album by the Beatles was the iconic background music to a holiday I'll never forget.

My dad was born in GY in 1918 and it made him sad every time we came back to visit family. I remember the south denes caravan camp in the 1960's and having holidays there.

Awesome footage of the Flying saucers turning on its base and Vampire jets just after Benny Hill!

Used to holiday in Great Yarmouth during the early 60s. Entertainment was fantastic. Five live shows including the two piers, plus the Royal Aquarium / Windmill Theatre & The ABC at the top end of Regent Road. Saw numerous stars including Morcombe & Wise and Dusty Springfield. The Pleasure Beach had more rides and was open late at night during the summer season. I visited Yarmouth three years ago, it's lost the charm, maybe because I'm much older now.

I went to Great Yarmouth a few weeks ago and it's still a great place. Went for walks on the seaside, went to a model village and also was at Pleasure Beach.

Love this 😀

The East Anglian Film Archive has identified this film as being made in 1958. It was, apparently, the only year that Tommy Cooper performed a season in Great Yarmouth. The Benny Hill shot shows the date of his performance as Sunday 13th July which matches the 1958 calendar. Of course, it is possible that some of the shots in the film were taken in other years.

I was born in Great Yarmouth, yay.

It's such a different place these days.. but still worth a visit! Would have loved to have gone there back in those days, though..

I miss going here with my nan and grandad 🙁

Super!

Of course the town is a little tired, it needs some money and a bit of this enthusiasm injected back into it - it would be great to see it revived - but after recently moving here from London (and no i'm not geriatric) I think it still has character and charm and is an interesting town with much more to it than first meets the eye. Great video.

Still loving the roller coaster though which was built in the 30s/40s!

It look s fantastic back then. What happened

this rollercoaster was used in the madness video house of fun

I believe this film was made in the early 60s judging by the cars. There is a Wolsely 1500 in one scene, and these were not produced until 1959, so the film could have ben made in 1959 at the earliest.

Great video, I went to GY on holiday from the North East in 1973 aged 10 and it was much the same as the video. Many thanks for sharing, brought back warm memories

Directed and filmed by the late great Harold Baim... lovely stuff

Haha you can still go on the snails! :)

THIRTY YEARS NEFORE I WENT THERE.LOOKS LIKE A HUNDRED YEARS EARLIER!

R.I.P Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the II. Charles's Beloved Mother. 70 Years Regin on The Throne of The UK and The Commonwealth 1952-2022. Elizabeth 1926-2022. Final resting place at Windsor Castle, down in the Valut of St George's Chapel.

great place in EAST ENGLAND!

Benny Hill at 4:00 - OMG!!

Loved this vid, thanks for posting!

It's actually sad how Yarmouth has turned, at least Hemsby has kept it's charm!

i live there LOVE YARMOUTH

Happy memories

i live in yarmouth and yes i am 13 i have allways woundered what it was like then and i go to the pleashure beach like every week end lol thanks 4 puttin this on

I'm sorry I haven't been there for about eight years but I wasn't impressed then. I was there in 1964 before continental holidays became common and it was fantastic. Packed with people, all the best attractions and shows, well-kept gardens and flower beds you could motorboat around on the front. Nothing but a shadow of what was then.

Tommy Cooper collapsed and died of a heart attack on TV on 15th April 1984. He was 63. Benny Hill was found dead of a coronary thrombosis in his London flat on 22nd April 1992, two days after his death. He was 68. Ruby Murray died of liver cancer in Torquay on 17th December 1996. She was 61.

THE GOOD OLD DAYS. LONG LONG GONE, NEVER EVER TO RETURN, A TIME WHEN OUR COUNTRY WAS GREAT.

this is classic place

@annissman Us lot in Lowestoft are wondering exactly the same.

I Live here, what the hell happened :(

Woo... Down-blouse at 51 seconds!😜

I was born to late. I wish I lived in them days. The world is a rat race now adays.

I thought Benny was going to do Fred Scuttle when he grabbed the fellows cap around 4.00...

The pleasure beach was better back then! But love Yarmouth

I live there

Neat! Benny Hill --the man considered funnier than Monty Python.

Sigh...where are the roller-skating exhibitions of yesteryear?

I did a tour of East Anglia in 2012 and visited Great Yarmouth....I must say, it was disappointing (whisper it softly). Typical of so many UK resorts (Rhyl, Weston Super Mare etc.

Where did the holiday makers come from above all in the 1950s?

Sou do futuro

yeah, its shit now dude, trust me i can't wait to follow in your footsteps :)

people were happy then...life was better..the rich were not so Greedy

How nice then how nasty now.

That’s what it used to be like until uncontrolled immigration.

Anachronism!!! Tom Arnold is mentioned in this video!!

gutted mate.

Not much has changed

The waterways are filthy now shops are rubbish . A chips chips are good

looks awesome compared to now. bet they neva had a chav problem bk then

Not like that! Like that!! A HA HA HA!!!!!!!

A narrator with an Irish accent?

my grandmother bought a guest house here,60s sad to see the shit hole it has become.

Wimpy.

Benny Hill should have slapped him on the head.

shame how Yarmouth, its not so golden now

Of course the town is a little tired, it needs some money and a bit of this enthusiasm injected back into it - it would be great to see it revived - but after recently moving here from London (and no i'm not geriatric) I think it still has character and charm and is an interesting town with much more to it than first meets the eye. Great video.