The Last of the Hunters
In the 1960s, there was a series of adverts for fish, which used the slogan, “Fish! The only food you go out and hunt!”
On the South Quay in Great Yarmouth today, was the Lydia Eva, the last of the steam drifters, that used to dominate herring fishing in the North Sea.
She is now a museum and uniquely a ship that contains a museum, that actually works and goes to sea!
The Anonymous Widower 
[…] only walked from the Lydia Eva down the quay for perhaps a hundred metres, as the weather looked to be on the turn and I really […]
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[…] and there are some museums to explore. I also want to see inside St. Nicholas and see the Lydia Eva under steam. Yesterday, too, I missed out the racecourse, as I know it well and that is always […]
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[…] On the other hand, I might go there, as it sounds so awful. But then there are much better things to see in Great Yarmouth. […]
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