Part 66 (1/2)

Sep. 14th. A pike, 43 in. long and 20 in. in girth, weighing 27 lbs., caught at Cantley.

Sept. 24th and 25th. The seventh annual East of England Horse Show held at Southtown. This was the second time Yarmouth had been chosen.

Sept. 30th. Tom Ma.s.singham, of Newcastle, better known as ”Steeple Jack,” removed the weather-c.o.c.k off St. Nicholas' spire for regilding.

This wind-indicator is 141 years old, stands 2 ft. 8 in, in height, and is 4 ft. long. It had not been gilded for 39 years before. The act was a daring one, as the steeple is 168 feet high. The steeple is covered with tinned sheet copper.

Sept. 30th. Mr. S. Aldred sold by auction the old Town Hall, Police Station, &c., to be pulled down by purchasers, which realised a total of 535. The fixtures were sold previously. The Corporation ”reserved to themselves” the foundation or memorial stone, _with its contents_, but this was ”conspicuous by its absence.”

Oct. 1st. The Yarmouth ringers rang 1,008 grandsire trebles on the Parish Church bells, to celebrate the 84th birthday of Thomas Gooch, he himself taking the treble. Gooch was born at Richmond in 1795, and died at Yarmouth in 1883. His late father was steward to George III.

Oct. The hull of the ”Iron Duke,” wrecked on the beach on Nov. 18th, 1841, discovered under the sand opposite the Aquarium, in a direct line with the third bay from the south end.

Oct. 4th. Fire on Mr. Robert George's premises at Southtown. Damage, 1,150.

Oct. 9th. Gorleston Cemetery consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Norwich.

Oct. 19th. The Bishop of British Columbia preached at the Parish Church.

(See Nov., 1858.) It is reported that he has now (1884) resigned the Bishopric.

Nov. 2nd. Loss of the smack ”Florence and Johanna,” and five hands, the vessel being run down on the fis.h.i.+ng grounds. Six other hands were drowned this day in a gale.

Nov. 1st. The _Graphic_ published a sketch of the original Peggotty's Hut in Yarmouth, which was then about to be demolished.

The poor rate for the year was 3s. 4d.; in 1869 it was 5s. 2d.; in 1873, 4s. 4d.; and in 1877, 3s. 6d.

Nov. 5th. The ”Jetty Mills,” St. George's Road, purchased by Mr. F.

Carpenter for 1,170, and pulled down.

Nov. 23rd. Mr. Charles Samuel Dale Steward, Parish Churchwarden from 1848 till 1873, died, aged 77 years. A memorial window is placed in the Parish Church to his and the late Mr. Churchwarden Aldred's memory.

Subscriptions for this amounted to 151 12s. 6d.

Nov. 28th. Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Warren, a mail-coach driver, died in Row 21, at the advanced age of 104 years and 8 months.

Nov. 29th. Fire at Mr. W. S. Wigg's, jeweller, Regent Street.

Dec. 11th. Rev. Joseph Tongue, Primitive Methodist Minister, received his B.A. degree at Cambridge University.

Dec. 27th. Miss Jermy, daughter of the late Recorder of Norwich, died, and was interred in the vault at Wymondham Churchyard, with the bodies of Isaac Jenny and his son, who were murdered by Rush. (See Nov. 6th, 1848.)

One hundred and five vessels imported timber here in the year; 112 in 1878; and 104 in 1877.

Marriages: Feb. 20th, Mr. J. Percival Smith, son of J. C. Smith, Esq., to Miss Eliza Jane Branch.-Aug. 20th, Rev. A. Aldred, rector of Worlingham, to Miss M. O. Clowes.-Sept. 2nd, H. Harvey-George, Esq., to Jessie, second daughter of Robert Hewett, Esq.

Deaths: Feb. 27th, Lieut.-Col. FitzRoy, J.P.-March 22nd, T. W. Gooda, Esq., T.C., aged 72.-April 6th, Sir Thomas B. Beevor, Bart., aged 81.-April 23rd, William Wright, Esq., architect and builder, aged 69.-May 5th, Captain J. Emerson, harbour master, aged 62.-May 26th, Philip Pullen, Esq., J.P., aged 87.-June 10th, Mr. W. H. Hunt, aged 72.-June 25th, Mr. James Burman, bell ringer and late parish clerk, aged 64.-July 20th, Mary, mother of Mr. J. H. Harrison, aged 87.

Launches: April 24th, smacks ”Magpie” and ”Greyhound.”-May 27th, Mr.

Morgan's yacht ”Gnat.”-Sept. 8th, smack ”Leonard.”-Sept. 16th, fis.h.i.+ng boat ”Promise.”

1880.