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The nicest Seafront I've been to in the UK, with a large clean beach. Plenty of inflatable play areas on the beach costing around £2.50 for 20mins of quiet time from the kiddies.

Loved great Yarmouth. The seafront has a great variety of amusement, food and beach!

Nice clean beach. The prom was very clean and tidy with plenty benches to enjoy the views and weather. Close to the main shopping area. Parking next to the road is far better value than the car parks on the prom.

Great Yarmouth seafront is a great place for all the family to visit with 2 piers a theatre amusements funfairs. Lots of places to eat and drink plenty of places to sit. Lots of events in the summer holidays on weds nights great fireworks. Display. Clean sandy beaches lots. Of benches to sit and relax

Lovely sea front, waters chilly and stones hurt your feet, so bring sea shoes!

Beautiful place. Well worth it for a good family holiday.

Beautifully Sandy with hills of grass to walk through.

This is one of the United Kingdom’s earliest cinema buildings. It is thought it was intended to be a menagerie for displaying wild animals when first built. But it opened as a cinema known as the Gem Theatre on 4th July 1908 with the proviso that men and women sat seperately on each side of the auditorium! Theatre manager and producer C.B. Cochran was the lessee and manager. It had a magnificent display of electric light bulbs attached to the front of the building which gave it the nick-name ‘Palace of Light’.
Showing films for most of its life, it was taken over by Ben Jay’s Circuit in 1938. It did stage summer shows occassionally from 1948 when it was re-named the Windmill Theatre. Films and occasional live stage shows continued into into the 1960’s. By the 1980’s it had closed and was in use as a children’s indoor play area.
It later became an attraction named the Odditorium (similar to Ripley’s Believe It or Not) which also had a cinema upstairs. Today the building is in use as an amusement arcade with slot machines, etc. and a minature indoor golf centre. Some of the interior decoration has been hidden by false walls drapes. The building is Listed Grade II*