. Vanishing England . their trade of world-wide fame, but their port speakslouder in their praise. Again and again has the ficklesea played havoc with their harbour, silting it up withsand and deserting the town as if in revenge for theharvest they reap from her. They have had to cut outno less than seven harbours in the course of the townsexistence, and royally have they triumphed over alldifficulties and made Yarmouth a great and prosperousport. OLD WALLED TOWNS 45 Near Yarmouth is the little port of Gorleston with itsold jetty-head, of which we give an illustration. It wasonce the rival of
. Vanishing England . their trade of world-wide fame, but their port speakslouder in their praise. Again and again has the ficklesea played havoc with their harbour, silting it up withsand and deserting the town as if in revenge for theharvest they reap from her. They have had to cut outno less than seven harbours in the course of the townsexistence, and royally have they triumphed over alldifficulties and made Yarmouth a great and prosperousport. OLD WALLED TOWNS 45 Near Yarmouth is the little port of Gorleston with itsold jetty-head, of which we give an illustration. It wasonce the rival of Yarmouth. The old magnificent churchof the Augustine Friars stood in this village and had alofty, square, embattled tower which was a landmark tosailors. But the church was unroofed and despoiled at theReformation, and its remains were pulled down in 1760,only a small portion of the tower remaining, and this fella victim to a violent storm at the beginning of the lastcentury. The grand parish church was much plundered. The Old Jetty, Gorleston at the Reformation, and left piteously bare by the de-spoilers. The town, now incorporated with Yarmouth, has aproud boast:— Gorleston was Gorleston ere Yarmouth begun,And will be Gorleston when Yarmouth is done. Another leading East Anglian port in former days wasthe county town of Suffolk, Ipswich. During the thir-teenth and fourteenth centuries ships from most of thecountries of Western Europe disembarked their cargoeson its quays—wines from Spain, timber from Norway,cloth from Flanders, salt from France, and merceriefrom Italy left its crowded wharves to be offered for sale in 46 VANISHING ENGLAND the narrow, busy streets of the borough. Stores of fishfrom Iceland, bales of wool, loads of untanned hides, aswell as the varied agricultural produce of the district, wereexposed twice in the week on the market Thelearned editor of the Memorials of Old Suffolk, who knowsthe old town so well, tells us that the stalls of thenumer
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