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 SOME BYE-LAWS
OF
GREAT YARMOUTH
BOROUGH COUNCIL

1862—1873

With respect to:

Markets and Fair

Hackney Carriages
Common Lodging Houses
Cleansing, Removal of Rubbish and the Emptying of
Prives, Ashpits and Provisions
Slaughter Houses
Fish Wharves
Tramways

Monograph Nine

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 INDEX
Page 7. Bye-Laws for Regulating the Markets and Fair of Great Yarmouth, 1862 in
Pursuance of the Local Government Act, 1858 and the Market and Fairs Clauses Act
1847.

Page 18. Bye-Laws made on the 16th June 1868 by the Great Yarmouth Local Board of
Health for the Regulation of Hackney Carriages to such of the Powers and Provisions
contained in the Sections of the Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, as are incorporated
with the Local Government Act, 1858.

Page 24. Bye-Laws made on the 16th June 1868 by the Great Yarmouth Local Board of
Health for the Regulation of Common Lodging Houses Pursuant to the Powers and
Provisions contained in the Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851.

Page 28. Bye-Laws made on the 16th June 1868 by the Great Yarmouth Local Board of
Health for the Regulation of Cleansing, Removal of Rubbish and the Emptying of
Privies, Ashpits and Cesspools Pursuant to the Powers and Provisions contained in the
Local Government Act, 1858.

Page 32. Bye-Laws made on the 16th June 1868 by the Great Yarmouth Local Board of
Health for the Regulation of Bathing Machines and Bathing under the Powers and
Provisions contained in the Sections of the Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, as are
incorporated with the Local Government Act, 1858.

Page 36. Bye-Laws made on the 16th June 1868 by the Great Yarmouth Local Board of
Health for the Regulation of Slaughter Houses Pursuant to the Powers and Provisions
contained in the Town Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, incorporated with the Local
Government Act, 1858.

Page 39. Bye-Laws made on the 16th June 1868 by the Great Yarmouth Local Board of
Health re: New Streets, Buildings etc. Pursuant to the Powers and Provisions contained
in the Local Government Act, 1858.

Page 51. Bye-Laws made on the 18th September 1867 by the Borough of Great
Yarmouth under the Powers and Provisions of the Great Yarmouth Fish Wharves Act,
1866.

Page 56. Bye-laws, Rules and Orders made on 5th December 1873 by the Borough of
Great Yarmouth Pursuant to the Powers conferred on them by the Great Eastern
Railway Act 1862 and any other Power enabling them in that behalf, for regulating and
for preventing any interruption in the use of certain Tramways in the Parish of Great
Yarmouth.

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 Great Yarmouth Local History and Archaeological Society

On 25th January 1888, the Great Yarmouth branch of the Norfolk and Norwich
Archaeological Society was formed. On 27 th February 1953, the Society became
independent and its name was changed to the Great Yarmouth and District
Archaeological Society. At the Annual General Meeting on 15 th May 2009, it was
decided to change the Society’s name to the Great Yarmouth Local History and
Archaeological Society in order to reflect members’ changing interests.

The aims of the Society are: to encourage the study of history and archaeology,
especially in the Great Yarmouth district; and to secure the preservation and
conservation of historic buildings and monuments within the town and district.

Its activities include lectures in the Northgate Room, Central Library, Tolhouse Street,
Great Yarmouth, at 7.30pm, on the third Friday of each month, January to May and
September to December. The lectures are on local and national, historical and
archaeological topics.

At least two excursions are organised each summer, including a coach trip to a place
of interest in East Anglia, and an evening visit to a village or a site.

The Society’s journal is a compilation of articles, written mostly by local people on

mainly local historical and archaeological topics, and is published each autumn.

The Society produces a quarterly newsletter, giving news, articles and notices of
events, which is sent out by email or post.

The Society also erects blue plaques around the district to commemorate buildings
people or events of local interest.

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 Monographs Published by the Society

Monograph One:
Excerpt from the Sailor’s Home Logbook 1861 to 1864

Monograph Two:
Record of the Surviving and Legible Memorial Slabs in
St. Nicholas’ Church, Great Yarmouth at the Commencement of the
Restoration Work: 2nd June 1957

Monograph Three:
Little Yarmouth

Monograph Four:
Homocea: YH 573: A Diary of the
Autumn Herring Fishing Season: 1908

Monograph Five:
Photographs of Great Yarmouth taken between 1942 and 1944

Monograph Six:
Plaques in and around Great Yarmouth and Gorleston

Monograph Seven:
Window Display par excellence
The work of Philip Musgrave-Gray of Palmer’s Department Store,
Great Yarmouth in the 1930s

Monograph Eight:
A Snapshot of Great Yarmouth 150 years Ago
Advertisements from the Yarmouth Independent of 1863

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 Preface

Many old books, mainly Acts of Parliament, were housed in the basement of
Great Yarmouth Town Hall. In 2015, the Great Yarmouth Archaeological and
Local History Society were requested to find a home for the books. Many have
been deposited in local reference libraries. The Society has decided to publish
three of these books as Monographs; this being the first; as they may be of
interest to local historians.
Paul Davies.

The Committee of the Great Yarmouth Local History

and Archaeological Society
2013-2014
President: Andrew Fakes
Chairman: Paul Davies
Secretary: Patricia Day
Treasurer: Derek Leak

Committee Members:
Carl Boult
Stuart Burgess
Ann Dunning
Alan Hunt
Peter Jones
David McDermott
John Smail
James Steward
Michael Wadsworth
Patricia Wills-Jones

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