There is a wall around our town, which aptly fits Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek challenge title of Around Town.
Of the many intact stretches of the wall, I picked this one cos… well, seems someone might be living there.
The wall dates to 1261 when King Henry III granted Great Yarmouth the right to enclose the town… against the danger of pirates!
Want to know more? See this link.
crispina kemp 
This is very neat looking and sooo old. We can’t seem to build anything that lasts that long anymore.
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It’s withstood the bombing of two world wars. Being on the east coast of England, it came in for a hammering. They knew how to build in those days, hey. 🙂
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That is one impressive wall!
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Indeed. Have you checked out the link. Too much info for me weigh down the post. But interesting (for a history nut like me… now you know why I live where I do 🙂 🙂 🙂 )
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I did!
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So, you know why I like this place, for all I complain of it
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Of course
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🙂
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What is up there behind those windows? I have never seen anything so ancient with my own eyes. To live there surrounded, literally, by that much history! No wonder your a history buff!
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My home town (city Norwich – although I lived a few miles outside it) has a castle that dates to late C11th, and a cathedral of equal date, though much overbuilt in the intervening centuries. And also a wall, equally old 1215 I think. Can’t help it, really, can I.
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Well I am glad you give in to your passions and I can live your history vicariously through your posts.
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Vice versa 🙂
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I’ve been to Great Yarmouth but I’ve never seen the wall – or even known of it.
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Bet you’ve been to the seafront. The wall wraps around the old town. You probably past one of the surviving towers without realising what it was.
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Seems quite possible. If I go there again I’ll look around. 🙂
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As you enter the town there is a tower standing to left of the bridge. Then sweeping around, glance to the right and there’s a section playing hide and seek with modern buildings. If you head to the fast-food cluster (near Market Gates Mall) you’ll find quite a length of the wall. That’s just for starters.
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Thank you. 🙂
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Pleasure. If you do return, may I wish you an enjoyable visit
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Thank you kindly. I carry enjoyment with me wherever I go and seldom fail to find a use for it. 🙂
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That makes me smile. 🙂
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Then I can sleep soundly. 🙂
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🙂
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Is the wall literally around the town? (Or just part of it?)
I am just gawking at this picture, in awe at this photo. What the wall must have seen over the years!
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It was originally around all the town… except along the river. But sections are now missing… removed for roads, mostly. And some was lost to the WWII bombs. But mostly it’s there, though always visible, hidden away behind shops. And yea, the town has historic associations with war. After all, Horatio Nelson lived here.
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Interesting!
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🙂
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This is great Crispina! I love the history facts you include with it! Thank you for sharing this with us! 😀 ❤
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Thank you, Deborah. History is a prime love of mine 🙂
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Yes I’ve noticed and appreciate it because I keep learning new things I never knew! 😀 ❤
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I thank you. That brings a smile.
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What a neat wall!
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Oddly, the number of times I’d walked past there and never noticed the windows. Yet take the camera for a walk and… it does something to you, makes you more observant
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True!
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That’s why I notice the fungi too. Camera-led 🙂
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What a cool wall! I like how the whitewashing or facing has come off (at least, I assume that was there at some point), to reveal the various types of stones and bricks underneath, a patchwork of construction and repairs over the centuries.
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It was probably a lime-based plaster, what we might call mortar. I think the idea these days is not to repair and thus cover over the history, just to protect it so we call can see the history as it’s exposed
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Yes, exactly. But I was talking about at the time it was built, guessing that they would have covered it over. Isn’t white-washing the same as lime-based plaster?
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White wash is… hey, you guessed it, a wash. Lime-plaster can be up to 6 inches or more thick.
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Brings back a pleasant memory or two . . .
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I was thinking of you and EJ as taking these photo. It is the same stretch of well… or the next stretch. Close. 🙂
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