His father also worked odd jobs as a house painter, coal miner, and singer in the Canary Islands. Statham moved to Great Yarmouth, where he initially chose not to follow his father's career working the local market stalls, instead practising martial arts.
Pockets of local deprivation: several areas within the Borough are amongst the most deprived in the country. Local deprivation in comparison to other areas has been increasing for several years, meaning that Great Yarmouth risks being 'left behind'. That longer-term decline has slowed since 2015.
By the late 19th century the town was the largest herring port in the world and in 1913 1,163 fishing boats were operating out of the port – it's said you could walk across the river boat-by-boat – and the herring were exported as far afield as Russia, India and Africa.
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What is the ethnicity of the people in Great Yarmouth?
Across Great Yarmouth, 90.2% of people identified with a White ethnic group, 2.3% as Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh, 2.8% as Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African, 2.9% with Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups, and 1.8% with other ethnic groups.
The Tolhouse was built around 1150, and is believed to have been built by merchants. It is the oldest civic building in Great Yarmouth and one of the oldest remaining buildings in the town. The house is built of flint and ashlar with a tiled roof.
The Great Yarmouth area contains wonderful countryside, charming villages, the scenic Breydon Water, a Roman fort at Burgh Castle and a quieter but no less appealing seaside resort in Gorleston-on-Sea and the vibrant village resort of Hemsby.
The Leader of the council is Councillor Carl Smith . He was appointed by the Full Council at its Annual General Meeting following the election in May 2023. The Deputy Leader for the council is Councillor Graham Plant .
Annual total crime rate in Great Yarmouth, (local authority district) is 114 crimes per thousand resident population. This can be rated as 6 out of 10 or medium crime level compared to other boroughs/local authority districts in England and Wales.
Jason and Rosie, who have two children, returned to the UK five years ago and invested £15million in three homes in London after living in Beverly Hills for a decade.
The Port of Great Yarmouth comprises a deep-water outer harbour accepting vessels up to 220 metres in length and up to 10.5 metres draught at all states of tide along with the river port which accepts vessels of up to 120 metres in length or up to 6.2 metres dependant on tidal conditions.
An original souvenir programme from a performance by The Beatles which took place at the ABC, Great Yarmouth on 28th July 1963. The four-sided programme is printed with a running order for the concert with The Beatles supported by Freddie Starr & The Midnighters, The Kestrels and Alan Field amongst others.
Twelve properties in Yarmouth are currently listed on the Register. The oldest (the Cushing and Hannah Prince House) dates from 1785; the "newest" (the Grand Trunk Station) was built in 1906, replacing a structure built in 1848.
The borough had a population of 90,810 in 39,380 households, with 47,288 people in 21,007 households living in the urban area, whilst 43,522 people in 18,373 households lived in the surrounding parishes.
The Icknield Way Path is a section of a prehistoric route, often called the Greater Ridgeway that extends between the Dorset coast and Norfolk and claims to be the oldest road in Britain. It is made up of prehistoric pathways and survives as tracks and green lanes along the chalk "spine" of England.
A man who claimed he strangled his partner after she “attacked” him with a lamp has been found guilty of her murder. Adam Barnard, aged 41 and of Princes Road, Great Yarmouth, was today (7 November 2024) convicted of the murder of Tara Kershaw at her home in Princes Road in the early hours of Friday 19 January 2024.
Police have dropped an investigation into the disappearance of a boy from Oldham who turned up in France six years after going missing. Alex Batty was taken to Spain by his mother, Melanie, in 2017 and they did not return home in defiance of a court order that had granted custody to his grandmother.
There's a reason there's a Great in front of Yarmouth. Yes, it's because it was called Magna (Great) in 1272 in the reign of Edward I, to distinguish it from Little Yarmouth, now known as Southtown across the river Yare.
