. Vanishing England . ool. Royal guestshave been entertained there, but part of the buildingswere turned into cottages and the great hall into we have said, part of the Grey Friars Monastery re-mains, and also part of the house of the Augustine Yarmouth rows are a great feature of the are not like the Chester rows, but are long, narrowstreets crossing the town from east to west, only six feetwide, and one row called Kitty-witches only measures atone end two feet three inches. It has been suggested thatthis plan of the town arose from the fishermen hangingout the
. Vanishing England . ool. Royal guestshave been entertained there, but part of the buildingswere turned into cottages and the great hall into we have said, part of the Grey Friars Monastery re-mains, and also part of the house of the Augustine Yarmouth rows are a great feature of the are not like the Chester rows, but are long, narrowstreets crossing the town from east to west, only six feetwide, and one row called Kitty-witches only measures atone end two feet three inches. It has been suggested thatthis plan of the town arose from the fishermen hangingout their nets to dry and leaving a narrow passage be-tween each others nets, and that in course of time thesenarrow passages became defined and were permanentlyretained. In former days rich merchants and traderslived in the houses that line these rows, and had largegardens behind their dwellings ; and sometimes you cansee relics of former greatness—a panelled room or arichly decorated ceiling. But the ancient glory of the. /x --?• \ **r\ ^ o c row Xo. S3, Great Yarmouth 44 VANISHING ENGLAND rows is past, and the houses are occupied now byfishermen or labourers. These rows are so narrow thatno ordinary vehicle could be driven along them. Hencethere arose special Yarmouth carts about three and a halffeet wide and twelve feet long with wheels underneath thebody. Very brave and gallant have always been thefishermen of Yarmouth, not only in fighting the ele-ments, but in defeating the enemies of England. His-tory tells of many a sea-fight in which they did goodservice to their king and country. They gallantlyhelped to win the battle of Sluys, and sent forty-threeships and one thousand men to help with the siege ofCalais in the time of Edward III. They captured andburned the town and harbour of Cherbourg in the timeof Edward I, and performed many other acts of of the most interesting houses in the town is theTolhouse, the centre of the civic life of Yarmouth. It issaid to be
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