Great Yarmouth Local History & Archaeological Society

11/04/2026

The next meeting of the Great Yarmouth Local History & Archaeology Society will be a lecture given by Tim Holt-Wilson and will be entitled "Bones and Stones Earth Heritage in the Waveney Valley". The meeting will start at 7.30pm on Friday 17th April, 2026. It will be held at the Salvation Army Citadel, Tolhouse Street, Great Yarmouth. Non-members and members are welcome. Entrance for members is free and £2 for non-members

18/03/2026

Next meeting in Salvation Army Hall, Tolhouse St at 7.30pm on March 20th - Smuggling Around East Anglia by Andy Beharrell
non members welcome £2

25/02/2026

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One of our grant winners was Great Yarmouth Local History and Archaeological Society!

Find out about their highly successful event they held about the so-called "Dark Ages" in East Anglia: https://www.balh.org.uk/news-conference-report-east-anglia-in-the-anglo-saxon-period-illuminating-the-dark-ages-2026-02-09

17/02/2026

Friday 20 Feb's talk is titled Great Yarmouth and the Dutch Strangers is given by Professor Christopher Joby, at the Salvation Army Citadel, Tolhouse St at 7.30pm
Entrance is £2 for non-members and free for members.
Picture the former Dutch Chapel on South Quay

14/10/2025

The next meeting of the Great Yarmouth Local History & Archaeological Society (GYLHAS) will be on 17th October 2025 and will be at the Salvation Army Citadel, Tolhouse Street, Great Yarmouth. The lecture is entitled ‘Coastal Communities: The Archaeology of Sizewell C’ and will be given by Claire Halley, Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA). The meeting starts at 7.30pm.

In advance of Sizewell C’s construction, Oxford Cotswold Archaeology has been working on one of the largest archaeological projects ever undertaken in the east of England, to uncover the millennia long history of human occupation in the area.
Sizewell C power station is planned to come online in the 2030s. The areas for archaeological intervention extend well beyond the actual location of the power station to include enabling works, such as a park and ride, new road and rail routes, and temporary accommodation sites for construction workers.
OCA started work in autumn 2022 and will be excavating over 70 sites through 2024 and beyond. They have already unearthed a fascinating glimpse into life along the Suffolk coast with evidence of prehistoric occupation in the Bronze Age, Roman salt production and the remains of numerous medieval ovens and structures.
Members and guests are welcome. The meeting is free for members of the GYLHAS and a charge of £2 is made for non-members.

14/09/2025

The next meeting of the Great Yarmouth Local History & Archaeological Society (GYLHAS) will be on 19th September, 2025 and is entitled "Queen Elizabeth I’s Progress to Norwich in 1578 (and her refusal to go to Yarmouth)".

The speaker is Victor Morgan, BA, PhD, FRHistS who teaches at the UEA.

The meeting starts at 7.30pm and will be held at our new venue - The Salvation Army Citadel, Tolhouse Street, Great Yarmouth Please note our change of venue. Members and guests welcome.

13/09/2025

Today's history fair in the Minster

23/08/2025

We say goodbye to The Christchurch with a lecture on the black death and its aftermath by Imogen Corrigan B.A.Hons. Historian, Author. The buiding is up for sale. The next meeting will be at The Salvation Army Citadel, Tolhouse Street, on 19th September 2025, 7:30pm