Another walled town on the Norfolk coast attracts the attention of all who love the relics of ancient times, Great Yarmouth, with its wonderful record of triumphant industry and its associations with many great events in history.  Henry III, recognizing the important strategical position of the town in 1260, granted a charter to the townsfolk empowering them to fortify the place with a wall and a moat, but more than a century elapsed before the fortifications were completed.  This was partly owing to the Black Death, which left few men in Yarmouth to carry on the work.  The walls were built of cut flint and Caen stone, and extended from the north-east tower in St. Nicholas Churchyard, called King Henry’s Tower, to Blackfriars Tower at the south end, and from the same King Henry’s Tower to the north-west tower on the bank of the Bure.  Only a few years ago a large portion of this, north of Ramp Row, now called Rampart Road, was taken down, much to the regret of many.  And here I may mention a grand movement which might be with advantage imitated in every historic town.  A small private company has been formed called the “Great Yarmouth Historical Buildings, Limited.”  Its object is to acquire and preserve the relics of ancient Yarmouth.  The founders deserve the highest praise for their public spirit and patriotism.  How many cherished objects in Vanishing England might have been preserved if each town or county possessed such a valuable association!  This Yarmouth society owns the remains of the cloisters of Grey Friars and other remains of ancient buildings.  It is only to be regretted that it was not formed earlier.  There were nine gates in the walls of the town, but none of them are left, and of the sixteen towers which protected the walls only a very few remain.

[Illustration:  The “Bone Tower”, Town walls, Great Yarmouth]

These walls guard much that is important.  The ecclesiastical buildings are very fine, including the largest parish church in England, founded by the same Herbert de Losinga whose good work we saw at King’s Lynn.  The church of St. Nicholas has had many vicissitudes, and is now one of the finest in the country.  It was in medieval times the church of a Benedictine Priory; a cell of the monastery at Norwich and the Priory Hall remains, and is now restored and used as a school.  Royal guests have been entertained there, but part of the buildings were turned into cottages and the great hall into stables.  As we have said, part of the Grey Friars Monastery remains, and also part of the house of the Augustine Friars.  The Yarmouth rows are a great feature of the town.  They are not like the Chester rows, but are long, narrow streets crossing the town from east to west, only six feet wide, and one row called Kitty-witches only measures at one end two feet three inches.  It has been suggested that this plan of the town arose from the fishermen hanging out their nets to dry and leaving a narrow passage between each other’s