Great Yarmouth - Used to be my favourite place to visit, BUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED, let's take a look. 

I’ve been to Great Yarmouth every other year since I was a small child, in the 70s and now I take my own family there every couple of years. I think it goes from strength to strength. Fantastic memories and still packed with things to do from the sea world, to the pleasure beach, the endless miles of golden sand and dunes, to the piers, and all the shops and little sea food stalls. Wednesday night fireworks, the new ‘Big Wheel’, mile after mile of interest. In some ways it’s lived in a time capsule while appearing thoroughly modern at the same time. I too remember seeing Cannon and Ball in the early 80s, almost got run over by Bobby Ball crossing the road. We have always stayed at the Seashore Haven resort, and that is a part of the experience in itself. If there were ever a seaside resort in the U.K. everyone should visit its Great Yarmouth. It’s a shame the wax works fell into disrepute, that did become somewhat of a joke, it needed to close. Beautiful place, thanks for the upload.

i went there 77, was great, the tower had 2 clubs, i worked on pleasure beach, and hung with locals at bowling ally ,regent road....it was a rocking town.

who remembers the pedal racing cars on the front? I think there were two tracks and the roller skating rink next to the pier . Great funfair as well - the wooden rollercoaster and in the sixties there was a double big wheel

Ive lived near Great Yarmouth all my life. the Tubs and the Snails are a legendary experience. its still a great place 😉

Allowing mass immigration into the town, the government should be held accountable, the people of Yarmouth never asked for this

Myself and family use to come to Yarmouth 10 years in a row from 1982 until 1992 , loved it as a kid , especially the snail rides at joy land , I visited here and stayed here for a week in 2020, I really enjoyed it, it was a really nice time, the beach and sea front was clean and tidy , lots of nice shops, the cinema was great , the pleasure beach was good, plenty of places to eat and drink, I didn’t see any trouble the whole week I was there , it seemed a bit different to all them years ago, but was good to be back in Yarmouth

The trouble with yarmouth is the council have turned it into a third world ghetto over the last 20yrs or so. Just take turn of regent rd either side will do.😢

We moved to Yarmouth just over a year ago and absolutely love it. People are so nice and chatty. I not just holiday makers but locals. I hope market place picks up with being a proper market rather than food halls. Mens clothing shop would be nice.

Hi fella take me back to my family holidays love it 👍

Still love this place. Always will. ❤ Been going there for 30+ years. What is sad is the log floom has gone.

Great Yarmouth was the first place I came to in GB on a school exchange. One of my funniest memories is a ride on the roller coaster. When we were just on top it got stuck. And would you believe it it began raining and we got soaked. Quite an adventure.

Used to love coming here every May spring bank holiday week, from 1980-87. Regents Road wasn't pedestrianised and would be absolutely bustling. I remember a department store about halfway up on the left hand side going up, we'd buy jokes and tricks in there. The pubs and bars along the sea front were great.

Ive been going to Yarmouth 3-4 times a year since I was about 3, Now 27 and even thou its rundown abit now its still one of my favorite places to stay, feels like a 2nd home

As someone who lives here the council accepted over 3000 refugees in a suburb of around 9000 (Gorleston, Yarmouth, Bradwell, Caister) Just under half the people here now are foreigners who do not want to be part of the community, most don't want to learn English, and most are on benefits. A whole bunch of hotels are now there home and they really don't care about where they live as trash is dumped all over the place and at the weekends local women were getting assaulted in clubs and their bf's where getting glassed when trying to intervene. Stabbings have gone up from none existence to regular and local people now can't go to certain parts of town due to them being foreign hood. The local suburbs have gone to shit since they were all dumped here as it's cheap. And they want to put more here even tho there's no room.....

Brought back lots of memories for me That's were I meet my wife

To be honest I just got back from Great Yarmouth today and it was lovely and the sun was shining. Got the market open and all the shops open keep in mind most shops close at 4 . So you guys are wrong if you get there at the right time of the day it’s amazing .

Been to Great Yarmouth had holidays in the past remember the wax works staying at vaxhall caravan park with my mum and dad brother holiday . Seen him Davison at Britainna pier royal threater Micheal Barry more . Had coach trips for a day there my dad drive a coach there years ago . Market was there at the tower years ago not there no more ashame love Great Yarmouth even today . Enjoyed the video thank you Neil .

I was born in yarmouth and raised there. I'm 63, the obvious problem are the migrants. There are so many nationalities that live there and a lot of them dislike each other so much you can feel it simmer most of the time. Thank god I moved out in 1982, when I go over my heart breaks for what once was a fantastic place to live. I can remember when yarmouth used to shut down completely at the end of October untill the spring, everyone knew each other and if you didn't know someone you could bet your life a friend would.

The. Caravan site used ro be next to the beach opp out of caravan jump down and on the beach ,Is the harbour still open with the cruise ship golden gallen that took you on the broads

they have ruined every thing

I moved to Great Yarmouth from London 5 years ago and it's a unbelievable place to live.

Really enjoyed that mate. Yearly holiday destination in the 70/80's with my grandparents.

Oh, the building where KFC and McDonalds is used to be the town's Woolworth's in the 1920s, Before they moved down the road, still has that really old Woolies look if you look at the first floor. One of the big failures of the area was Yarmouth council promising to build a state-of-the-art Las Vegas quality Casino next to where the Premiere Inn is, in fact that's the main reason both the Yarmouth Premier Inns were even built, but they kept pulling back on their promises, and ended up burning a lot of bridges with businesses wanting to invest in the area over it. (Premier Inn have also said they're considering closing the hotels, they've already shut down the Beefeater and Brewer's Fayre restaurants attached to them) So the lack of money they had essentially banked on coming in is one of the reasons for its current state.

Thanks for your Yarmouth video...I do live here, moved in 2007 and happy I did. Open skies away from tower blocks and the countryside a few moments away..Today its blue sky and the big wheel is about 200 meters from me. Yes i noticed a change here, shops rent must be too high, and the Migrants can "spoil" the place with hanging around street corners drinking beer...which is not right as we are a Holiday break location and people come back here time after time. The biggest lose is King street, most of the local people sold up and its a nasty street now full of EU food shops and second hand businesses, which is a shame. BUT... when the weather is good, the mood brightens up and its great to say hello to all the people arriving here for a good time, lovely meeting them all when out and about and hearing there stories about Yarmouth. I must say it seems we are "hanging in there" better then other seaside towns and for one I`m going to enjoy summertime here by the sea....

As a kid we allways went to Rhyl for 2 weeks then we started go to Yarmouth when I was about 12-13 ,stop at Vauxhall site great holidays there, not been back since the early 80s

Great Yarmouth is run down and dead. I remember walking where you are, and it was heaving with people. It took nearly an hour to get from Market gates to Britannia Pier. Now it takes less than 15 -20 minutes, depending on how fast you walk. nearly all of the shops were open, now nearly all of them are closed......that tells you everything you need to know.

Aww used to love Great Yarmouth, Many a childhood holiday staying at Hemsby . A trip to House of wax and louis toussards ( believe) wax works were a must . both funny and terrible at the same time lol. Chips and donuts on the sea front but my god it was always blooming cold there . Joyland snail rides and a donkey ride .

Its an outpost for Eastern Euro migrants now

Yarmouth isn’t that bad at all what is he on about we been going there for 25 years and it’s still the same and the waterways great place to visit and loads to do

I live 5 miles away from Great Yarmouth and thanks to your video I don't need to visit this year either. The beginning of the end was when the Council decided to move all of the shops to the outskirts, the town centre will eventually just be dedicated to housing(mostly foreigners). Charging 80p for 45 minutes parking gives no one an incentive to visit, where just over the river you have Gorleston with free parking for a think 2 hours.

We've been going for 36 years we always stayed at Vauxhall Holiday Park put last year we stayed at Robinsons great place

Its been a long time in the making? But finally the councils over tbe years have dismantled everything that was good about our little town,,,,, no where to park,,,,,boarded up shops in the town centre But tbey ve spent millions on a new bridge leading to Nowhere???

I love Great Yarmouth, we go every year

We love Great Yarmout, went for years on the Vauxhall holiday Park, up until Parkdean took over and took away some of the things we loved about it..however just had another look and they've made some improvements so booking again for 2005...you've not mentioned Sarah's tea rooms, you have to try their homemade cakes and scones ( lovely place ) or the oldest prison in England ( great couple of hours out ). Thankyou for sharing this video.

Not been for years last time I was there Jim Davidson owned Wellington pier and the old winter Gardens saw him at the bar in the winter gardens he was totally different from the T.V not a pleasant man off camera .It looks not so good a place to visit now but thanks for the trip down memory lane

What people seem to forget is Yarmouth town isn’t the only part of Yarmouth for a holiday destination. You have the broads a stones throw away, with some of the most picturesque views money can buy. It’s a shame you haven’t gone to these places as they are to, a very special part of Great Yarmouth

I would like to know if vauxhall camp site has changed .I used to take my kids there in late 90s

Hi went for wk end about 4 years ago we liked it beach nice n model village .fair.our b& b was let down .in 70 s went hemsby pointins arrr horsriding on there beach i was 14 years😊 from karen thank u showing .

Thanks for this Neil. Town don't look too bad, no rubbish, no boarded up windows. xx

I went to great yarmouth on holiday and it was such a boring place I'll never go again - I was so glad when the holiday was over so I could come back home -, brean in somerset for me in future

great yarmouth is one of my fav places in the world, used to visit a few times a year for hoildays 1986 - 2012, havent been back since,,,, looks a sorry state now! poor old regents road 😞😞😞

Most seaside towns are running down everywhere in the UK and its been going down for years, how can it be cheaper to fly to a foreign country with the whole family and stay in an all inclusive hotel cheaper than a self catering holiday in the UK? its also a generational thing, my parents always holidayed in the UK they never had passports in their lives and now they are gone, i sometimes holidayed in the UK but mainly holidayed abroad, my son, girlfriend and family never goes on holiday in the UK and neither do i now, there seems to be a culture of price gouging everywhere you go £5+ for a pint of beer, meals out costing a fortune, government is not helping, why would anybody come to this country for anything except to claim benefits and housing that they are not entitled to.🤣

remember yarmouth back in the 60- 70s

Winter Gardens has got a grant recently so should be done up soon. But town has had it,£5,000000 for that so called market what has mostly food stalls is useless really. No other market now

Worked in Yarmouth for months in the early 80's, what a shithole it was then, god help the UK.

I’ve been going to Yarmouth since I was a kid. Every time I go back it gets worse. I have just come back from Weymouth and it’s 10 times better than Yarmouth. The seafront is a proper seafront with lots to do, and lots of good shops in the town centre. I’ll think I will be sticking with Weymouth from now on which is sad.

Where that joke shop is used to be a lovely shop called spalls, we moved to yarmouth in 1972 , it was really nice, I left in January 1990 , they had just pedestrianised regent rd . It was on the turn then , now its a ghetto.

Winter gardens are set to have a major restoration and expected to reopen in 2027.

we first started going there in the 60's and can remeber the stampede when the bay city rollers appeared there. Used to be some great ice cream parlours and chips shops but now not so many. We used to enjoy the mushy peasa at the marked but only one stall there now. We went back this year for what would have been my dad's 90th birthday. No mention of th e waterways which is now barely a shadow of its form3r glory

Actually looks better than it did about 5yrs ago...

Been going to Yarmouth for years until parkdean took over vauxhall holiday park and runied it coming back in September with grand kids looking forward to seeing how it has changed 😅

Haven’t been there for years mate stopped at California cliffs it was ok then my girls were still at school they have kids of there own now 😢great vid again mate mist you in Skeg we didn’t venture up to ingoldmells it was too packed but I will bump into you at some point

I was going to visit yarmouth town this month while im there on the boat think I'll skip that now as its gone down hill

We do like Gt Yarmouth and the fish shop on the corner is the best, great service, fresh fish and they do a brilliant black forest gateau. The rest of the town isn't that great...

Went there last week find it depressing what it’s become

Great Yarmouth, The holding pen for the "Jeremy Kyle Nation".

I was there in Sept yes I noticed it had changed going again July see if any better

I wonder why they close things so early in seaside resorts. In the past everything would have been open until late at night. In the past all the entertainment on the front would have been open from 9am until 11pm. I mean, surely people on holiday still want to go out at night. Also buisness's are losing money.

The winter gardens is being renovated shortly which is good so should be restored to it's glory next few years the shops always seem to shut early no matter what day 🤦

Would hardly say the arcade is run down and grubby, granted there's some vacant shops, but by no means grubby

Wax works been closed at least 6 years

Yarmouth was a place I used to go on a bank holiday with my parents We use to stop of half way along Acle straight at a pub called the Stacey Arms now its a mosque Then once in Yarmouth on market mushy peas and chips then down regent Street then on to fun fair then home that was in the 70s Now I wouldn't want to go down there if my life depended on it full of different cultures fighting and drugs its a no go area its a s. .t hole sorry Yarmouth but you are not great anymore 😔

Yarmouth ain't been great since the mid 70 s Many seaside towns now over run with drugs illegals etc I live in one which shall remain nameless It's alright where I am a very small town where things do actually get done and any trouble the old bill are pretty good BUT we do have a drug problem and it's the younger ones who get caught up in it Still unless local governments get their fingers out of their arses the problem will get worse It's such a shame cause these seaside places are mostly fabulous places to live Brilliant film by the way cheers 🙏🌈🥵

Yes a little run down but the wonderful people make up for it and no I do not live in yarmouth but norwich and I love great yarmouth and come down a few times during the year

Just subscribed to your channel as recommended by walk on the wild side on his latest video chat

Gt Yarmouth used to be something special but now its just a shadow of its former self.

Great Yarmouth has gone down hill. I moved here 10 years ago and it has changed alot

Streets clean

Forgot to ask is the stock car racing track still going

What happened to Docwras ?

Wouldnt like to be sitting opposite you in tub after your icecream lol😮

Went there last summer had a great time to be fair

Do they have a crazy golf there

It's has got worse I do live here and it's got worse we have loads of foreign people

Good to its not changed !! always been the same !!

And to be honest, you can go to any seaside place in the UK and it will not be as good as it used to be. It’s all down to holiday makers in the UK being too bloody greedy on how much they charge for holidays when the kids are holidaying people are realised it’s cheaper to go abroad, it’s just outright greed. They’re too stupid to lower the prices during summer season so people don’t go cause it’s too expensive.

This is not entirely true. I live a few miles away and I can tell you EVERY seaside has good and bad bits, same as every city. You are doing a hatchet job and it’s so disappointing.

People need to tell the tourist board what they think as council ignores us locals. They're destroying everything that made yarmouth great. Heritage buildings mean nothing to them . The streets are filthy. Antisocial behaviour is rife and untackled. Council refused to admit we even have issues. Whatever is our council tax spent on coz its certainly not spent on keeping the place clean 🤬 the community no longer exists as it did there is no longer people I know and grew up with as they've left .

Conservative policy.

This was filmed on a Tuesday in March!!!!

So much history in our Town if you go off the beaten track Absolutely clueless video. Regards a real Yarco.

Try Margate what a shame from the 80s

We Love Great Yarmouth but we don’t particularly like what is happening with the place. The new market cow shed is an atrocious waste of space,just imagine if they had just built a Roof and allowed all the market traders to have small stalls ?. Now with the Cow shed it’s a few Chip shops and other food outlets,a couple of Stall type shops but they aren’t going to be there much longer because of the rates going up 🤷‍♂️. Regent’s Road is pedestrianised but watch out for cyclists and scooters and mobility scooters ! Never see the Police doing anything about the cyclists down there!. It has gone extremely Grubby and don’t go off the Main Streets into the old back streets…that’s like entering the Slums of old and they are pretty dangerous places to go on your own or when it gets dark !. Young Girls are constantly being pestered by a certain demographic around there !. The seafront is ok but it’s got a grubby feel to it these days,winter gardens was supposed to be being renovated and the council has been given lottery money for it but it’s still falling apart ( I think that’s what the council wants so they can sell the land ? ). The beach is lovely but you hardly see many people on it anymore and the pleasure beach is not as popular as it was…. I think that’s because of the fact that you have to pay to go inside the park nowadays,you can’t just walk around or Nana and Grandad doesn’t want to have to pay £5 each just for the privilege of babysitting 🤷‍♂️ Yeah that £5 covers you for the season but people don’t like having to pay it and £23 a wristband is a bit steep considering the park isn’t that big !. Hemsby is disappearing…literally into the Sea and it’s not the same place anymore. Gorleston is still lovely though ( the beach ) and because it’s quieter ( not as many amusement ) you get a different crowd of people. Yarmouth has gone Chavvy and a lot of the time you do have to be careful about the people that are around you,there is a aggressive feeling about the people in general and you have to be cautious with your wallet and phone. Please be warned that there are a lot of Gangs there now who have taken over a certain Trade and there are runners around everywhere and people have been Stabbed and assaulted in parts of Great Yarmouth. As a Coastal Town it has been inundated with an influx of non English people and sad to say but lots of Residents are selling up as quickly as possible 🤷‍♂️ . People can deny it but Great Yarmouth is going downhill fast,all the old B+B ‘s are selling up and being converted into affordable housing for the influx of immigrants and a lot of other types 🤷‍♂️

you went at the wrong time. i've been there in late july early august the place was nearly packed, went last year at the begining of may same thing weather was sunny in july/august in may it was a bit breezie but dry with sunshine. going again this year in july. all the shops were open. the high street was heaving

Looks like you chose the worst day to do a video, looks dead..do one in August it will be a different story

Why do so many people moan about this town but never leave it ? 😂

That's an easy answer..GIMMIGRATION

Turn off that face tracking when in selfie mode Too jerky😊

oh dear boo hoo its 4.30 and the shops didn't stay open for you ! who goes on holiday to go shopping anyhow. Turn up earlier if you want to go shopping.

Same here in Bournemouth

What an awful looking place

If you go to go to a seaside town go during an in season and during the actual main part of the day show the place in its best light don’t go in the bloody evening it’s pointless it gives a very depressing video and misleading opinion of the place seaside place when the no one walking around look like Ghost Towns

Tory government

Something wrong here didn’t se any Muslims walking about very unusual

We where there last week may 2024 the towns looks a bit of a dump really especially the back streets awful We stayed at the dolphin hotel Albert square across from that big wheel The Wetherspoons was ok just follow the signs on the seafront to McDonald’s

Looks like just about any other town in the UK. Shabby and tired. There's no money in the place.

Get in the back streets and Yarmouth is an absolute shite hole , used to do a fair bit of painting & decorating in Hostels there years back and it's gone downhill since . Mind you it's still like St Tropez compared to Blackpool 😆

So sad. I grew up in Norwich and remember visiting with my parent's, my late Dad loved Hemsby. Such a shame.

We were there a month ago. Its crap and expensive. Before this we spent a long weekend in Skegness. Skegness won hands down, cheap and a great amusement park

I live in Yarmouth the Great has gone it's a total S --t Hole it's a Dying Town most is down to the Council who can't be Bothered anymore. So Sad