Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood Part 50

Dec. 6th. Intense frost. Every street and road one ma.s.s of ice, and so smooth and slippery as to render walking upright impossible. Several accidents occurred to people and horses.

Dec. 9th. The smack "Friends.h.i.+p," value 400, lost in the North Sea.

Dec. 10th. The new steamer "South Tyne" stranded on North Scroby Sand.

She was got off the next morning after 100 tons of coal had been thrown overboard. Salvage services amounted to 1,000.

Dec. 11th. The market tolls, &c., were let by public compet.i.tion by Mr.

S. Aldred for 890 per annum. (See Aug. 21st, 1876.)

Dec. 15th. The smack "Dagmar" on fire in the harbour. Much damaged.

Dec. 19th. The smack "Emma," valued at 300, totally destroyed by fire while in the North Sea. Crew rescued.

Dec. 19th. The screw collier "Magdeburg" struck on Scroby Sand, but was got off by the steam tug "Reliance" for 200.

Dec. In the 2nd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers in 1871 there were in the five companies 11 officers, 22 sergeants, and 460 men, 87 of whom were marksmen.

The 600 fis.h.i.+ng craft belonging to this port pay annually for towage about 4,000.

A new Primitive Methodist Chapel opened at Bradwell.

Mr. J. T. Clarke, solicitor, appointed a Commissioner to administer oaths in the High Court of Admiralty in England.

Two hundred and forty millions of herring landed at the Fish Wharf during the whole of the present season.

The number of s.h.i.+pwrecked men received during the year at the Sailors'

Home was 228.

A whiting measuring 26 inches caught on the coast.

1872.

Jan. 1st, The barque "Sing Tai" (Rising Sun), 500 tons, launched from Messrs. Beeching's s.h.i.+pyard.

Jan. 1st. The brigantine "Sybil," belonging to Mr. H. H. Gambling, while entering the harbour got on the North Sand, and was wrecked. Value, 400.

Jan. 3rd. Rear-Admiral Charles Calmady Dent, of Yarmouth, died. (See April 4th.)

Jan. 5th. Sir Francis Crossley, Bart., M.P., of Somerleyton Hall, died at Belle Vue, Halifax, aged 54 years.

Jan. 10th. First prosecution for Sunday trading inst.i.tuted, the magistrates fining two delinquents-Messrs. Duffell-5s. each and costs.

This continued weekly for over five years.

Jan. 12th. Restoration of Gorleston Church mooted. On May 15th Mr.

Hubbard's (East Dereham) contract of 2,642 accepted. (See June 12th, 1873.)

Jan. 16th. Loyal addresses voted by the Council to the Queen on the recovery of the Prince of Wales from a severe illness; also congratulatory addresses to the Prince and Princess.

Jan. 17th. Gallant lifeboat service by the Caister beachmen during a heavy gale, in the preservation of the barque "Jessie," and the whole of her crew.

Jan. 25th. The Gorleston Board of Health resolved to borrow 1,000, in addition to the 3,500 previously borrowed for the Southtown drainage.

(See Aug. 17th, 1871.)

Jan. 28th. John Lomas Cufaude, Esq., solicitor, died, aged 61 years.

The deceased was Clerk of the Peace, Clerk to the Board of Guardians, and Superintendent Registrar of this Borough.

Jan. 29th. Caleb Burrell Rose, Esq., F.G.S., died, aged 81 years.

Jan. 29th. Supt. G. Tewsley presented with a richly-chased silver cup, at the Bear Hotel, by the sergeants and constables of the Borough Police, as a memento of their esteem.

Feb. 2nd. F. Danby Palmer, Esq., elected Supt. Registrar, and on the 9th Clerk to the Board of Guardians.

Feb. 2nd. Further experiments in the Roadstead with Harvey's sea torpedoes, under the inspection of gentlemen representing the American Government.

Feb. 9th, 10th, and 18th. Action in the Court of Chancery-I. and C. A.

Preston _versus_ the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough-to recover 20,000, lent by various mortgagees on the general district rates. Bill dismissed with costs. An appeal was made against the judgment in the same Court on June 19th, with a like result.

Feb. 13th. Isaac Preston, jun., Esq., elected Clerk of the Peace by the Town Council; and on March 5th, Visiting Justices' Clerk.

Feb. 23rd. Brigantine "Isabella Walker" collided with the steam tug "Andrew Woodhouse," the latter sustaining damage to the amount of 50.

Feb. 27th. General Thanksgiving Day for the recovery from sickness of the Prince of Wales observed in Yarmouth.

Feb. 4,680 required for the restoration of Gorleston Church. (See Jan.

12th, 1872, and April 28th, 1876.)

March 1st. Mr. G. M. Burton elected Vaccination Officer.

March 2nd. Smack "Queen of the Fleet" launched from Messrs. Smith and Son's s.h.i.+pyard.

March 14th. J. Cherry, Esq., of the Norfolk Circuit, took the oaths and handed in his formal appointment as Clerk of the Peace for Suffolk, conferred by the Lord Lieutenant of the County (Lord Stradbroke), vacated by the late Mr. Borton, who held the office 30 years prior to his death.

March 22nd. Henry Negus Burroughes, Esq., died at Burlingham Hall, aged 82 years. This gentleman was elected M.P. for East Norfolk in Aug., 1837; July, 1841; Aug., 1847; and July, 1852, with the late Edmund Wodehouse, Esq., as a colleague, on the last two occasions without opposition. In 1855, however, Mr. Wodehouse, accepting the Chiltern Hundreds, Sir Henry J. Stracey was returned in the place of that hon.

gentleman, but at the dissolution in March, 1857, they neither of them went to the poll. Mr. Burroughes was a Port and Haven Commissioner for over 45 years. The Rev. Randall Burroughes, who married a sister of Lord Suffield, succeeded to the possession of his fine landed property.

March 30th. Nathaniel Palmer, Esq., died at Coltishall. He was born at Yarmouth in Oct., 1792. In 1827 was called to the bar by the Inner Temple, and in 1886 appointed Judge of the Guildhall Court of Norwich and Recorder of Great Yarmouth.

March. The loop-line between Somerleyton and St. Olave's on the Great Eastern Railway opened.

April 4th. Marriage of Lieut. Charles Francis Hastings Dent, commanding H.M.S. "Orwell," eldest son of the late Admiral Dent and Lady Selina (daughter of the 11th Earl of Huntingdon), with Miss Jane Collins, of Bury, was celebrated at St. Mary's Church. (See Jan. 3rd.)

April 19th. Corner-stone of the new schools in connection with St.

James' Mission laid.

April 24th. Simms Reeve, Esq., took the declaration at the Tolhouse Hall on acceptance of the office of Recorder of Yarmouth.