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More of Donald Shield’s photographs from 1904
Another photograph taken at Lowestoft Harbour in 1904.
Fishing boats pictured at Lowestoft Harbour in 1904.
This quirky looking building is the club house for the Royal Norfolk And Suffolk Yacht Club and the photograph was taken from Lowestoft’s South Pier. It was built in 1903 and was the winning design from 65 entries received after an advertisement was placed requesting submissions for consideration. The final cost of £4,500 was far more than the club could afford but the Great Eastern Railway stepped in and paid for it’s construction, leasing it back to the club until they finally purchased it themselves in 1959.
The final picture from Donald’s photograph album shows a bygone form of transport
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We move down the coast to Lowestoft now. This picture was taken by Donald from the Claremont Pier and is looking over the seafront, up towards the South Pier and harbour. The Claremont Pier was erected in 1902/3 by the Coast Development Company who owned the “Belle” steamers and was built primarily to allow their passengers to disembark and board. In the background you can see the spire of St. Johns Church which was built in 1853. A famous future parishioner of the church was the composer Benjamin Britten whose mother was the organist there. The church was demolished in 1978, although had already been abandoned after a survey in the 1960s revealed severe structural damage which was believed to have been caused by the ingress of salt water during the 1953 floods.
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Great Yarmouth was a starting point for Broadland boating holidays, but it was also a popular stopping point for those who were cruising on the rivers. Fresh food supplies were still sometimes hard to come by at many villages en route, Yarmouth with it’s fine array of shops was the perfect place to obtain just about anything that you needed! It was also extremely popular as a seaside resort with many attractions springing up along the seafront and Marine Parade. As seen in Donald Shields photographs, the fish wharf and docks were also an attraction to many visitors and this particular cruising party obviously took a trip out on one of the many pleasure steamers which operated from the port. Here we see a local fishing trawler heading back in.
Just out of the harbour, we see another pair of trawlers making their way out to sea.
A photograph taken during the trip on a pleasure steamer as it heads out of Great Yarmouth c1905.
Wroxham c1905, taken from the riverbank near to the bridge, looking downstream. I believe that the boatyard on the left is the old Norfolk Broads Yachting Company yard. A wherry can be seen moored, although there is also another wherry sail in the picture. The “jolly” boat seen in the foreground bears the name “Maid Marion” and comes from J. Gilbert of Yarmouth.
