Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life

03/01/2025

We are open 10am-4pm today Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
Weekend opening hours 12-4pm
Last few weeks to see the Malorie Blackman: The Power of Stories exhibition.
is open 11am-3pm today (and tomorrow as an extra day) - then back to usual Tuesday to Friday opening from w/c 6 January

02/01/2025

**Thursday 2 January**
We are open 10am-4pm today at Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
Just over 5 weeks left to see our current exhibition.
Silver Darlings Cafe open today (2/1/25), tomorrow Fri 3/1/25 & extra day on Sat 4/1/25
(NB back to 11am-3pm Tuesday to Friday opening from 7/1/25)
We hope to see you soon!

01/01/2025

Happy new year from all here at Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
The museum is closed today - reopening tomorrow (Thursday 2 January) and back to normal hours -
Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat-Sun 12-4pm
Silver Darlings Cafe also open again on Thu 2, Fri 3 & Sat 4 January (then back to usual Tuesday to Friday opening 11am-3pm from Tue 7/1/25)
Just over 5 weeks left to see our current exhibition - don't miss your last chance to see!

31/12/2024

**Tuesday 31 December**
We are open 10am-4pm today at Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
Just over 5 weeks left to see our current exhibition.
Bring your Christmas money and treat yourself to something in our museum shop - we've got some fabulous items including some new gansey inspired knitted hats and gloves.
Silver Darlings Cafe closed until 2/1/25
We hope to see you soon!

30/12/2024

Seasons greetings from all here at Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
Just a reminder that the museum is open 10am-4pm today and over the next few days if you fancy a break from the festivities.
See attached pic for full details of all opening times over the festive period.

28/12/2024

Seasons greetings from all here at Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
Just a reminder that the museum is open 12-4pm today and over the next few days if you fancy a break from the festivities.
See attached pic for full details of all opening times over the festive period.

27/12/2024

Another fabulous mural by Reprezent Project
Check it out in the car park opposite Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life

Flying High with Ernie 🖤 Keeping the Bright Light Alive 🌟

Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and The National Lottery 🙏 Big thank you to everyone who helped us make this happen before Christmas 👏 Demograffix Man Stowen Group Great Yarmouth Borough Council - Jamie Garbutt, Andrew Gooding, Joshua Chapman, Paul Cheeseman, Paulo Cruz & Tony Taveira 🙌

We are done for the year, so this is our way to say Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄

The full documentary will premiere in January. Happy New Year to all ❤️

27/12/2024

Seasons greetings from all here at Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
**Friday 27 December**
Just a reminder that the museum is open again 10am-4pm today.
See attached pic for full details of all opening times over the festive period.

26/12/2024

Seasons greetings from all here at Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
**Thursday 26 December**
Just a reminder that the museum is closed today.
We will be open next on Friday 27 December - see attached pic for full details.

25/12/2024

Seasons greetings from all here at Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
**Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 December**
Just a reminder that the museum is closed today and tomorrow.
We will be open next on Friday 27 December - see attached pic for full details.

24/12/2024

Tuesday 24 December
Just a reminder that Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life is open today with reduced hours.
Open 10am-2pm today only.
We will then be closed until Friday 27 December - see attached pic for full details.

24/12/2024

Day 24 - A Postcard of St. Peters Road:🎄

Dreaming of a white Christmas? This is a postcard from 1906, showing a snowy scene of St. Spyridon Church from St. Peters Road in Great Yarmouth. This road is just around the corner from the Time and Tide Museum!

Thank you so much for following our advent calendar! These posts were designed by the Kick the Dust 'Make Yarmouth' group who meet at the Time and Tide Museum on Tuesdays throughout term.

If you want to find out more about Kick the Dust, follow our Instagram page

Merry Christmas!!! ❄️

23/12/2024

Stuck for a last minute gift idea? - we've got you!
Check out these fabulous gansey inspired knitted hats & gloves available in our shop here at Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
We are open 10am-4pm today, 10am-2pm tomorrow.
Shop can be accessed with or without museum admission - pop in for a browse soon!

23/12/2024

Day 23 - Gansey Knitting: 🐑🎄

A gansey is a Fisherman’s sweater. The gansey is knitted seamlessly by hand with gussets and other features, not made by a machine or sewn together in parts. Ganseys are traditionally knitted on steel double pointed needles, using tightly spun worsted wool. This material was perfect to use for gansey knitting for its ability to knit into a dense fabric, repel water, and keep the body at a regular temperature in cold and wet conditions.

The gansey would be traditionally knitted by the fishermen’s wives; each having a subtly different pattern that would pass down from mother to daughter through the generation. Ganseys are typically patterned with motifs using alternating purl and knit stitches to create historic and contemporary shapes and cables that could be linked to various regions where there was a fishing trade. Some of the former Scots girls reminisce on the rivalry and one-up-manship of using patterns that no-one else in the village was using.

A quote at the museum reads: ‘Whan dey wir nae herring in, dan wi wid sit on da swills an knit’. Scots girls, who followed the herring trail along the East Coast, could often be seen around the town engaged in animated conversation with each other, knitting quickly as they talked. Scots girls would knit with a ‘knitting sheath’ or ‘belt’ to assist the weight of the garment.

You can find out more at the Time and Tide Museum and on the East Anglia Gansey Group page!

22/12/2024

The Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life is open until 4pm today - NB Silver Darlings Cafe now closed until 2/1/25.
A reminder of our opening hours over the festive period.
Our shop can be accessed with or without museum admission and is a great place for looking for last minute gifts or stocking fillers - pop in for a browse soon!

22/12/2024

Day 22 - Inuit Snow Shoes ❄️

This image is of a First Nation snowshoe made from wood and string/rawhide, with leather bindings which was donated to the Norfolk Museums Service in 1964.

Snowshoes work by distributing the weight of the person wearing them over a large area so that their foot doesn't sink completely into the snow—this is called ‘flotation’. Traditional snowshoes have a hardwood frame with rawhide lacings.

This latticework is useful in preventing snow from accumulating on the shoes with each step. Most First Nations groups developed their own distinctive type of snowshoe. The further south you go in North America, the longer and narrower snowshoes become. The Cree have a traditional hunting snowshoe that is more than 1.5 meters long (nearly 6 ft).

Snowshoes of the Iroquois tribe are narrow but short, reflecting the need for manoeuvrability in more forested areas. Before horses were introduced, even Plains Indians wore snowshoes on their winter buffalo hunts. There are two
styles of snowshoe that Inuit use; one is triangular and about 45cm (18 inches) long, and the other is almost circular.

However, Inuits do not use snowshoes often, as in winter they mostly travel on foot on the sea ice or tundra, where the snow doesn’t collect deeply enough to make snowshoes necessary. Several animals, including Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) and the aptly named Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus), have evolved extremely large feet that work in a very similar way to snowshoes, enabling them to move quickly and efficiently through deep snow.

21/12/2024

Day 21 - The Troll Doll:

The troll doll originated from the small town of Gjøl in Denmark in the 1950s. These brightly-haired 'Good Luck Trolls' were originally made of wood, with orange, white and black Icelandic sheep wool hair glued to the top to create a wild look. Trolls are supposed to be lucky in Scandanavia, hence the name.

These dolls became a toy craze in the early 1960s and in the 1990s and recently had a film adaptation in 2013.

Did you have a Troll Doll?

20/12/2024

We’ve reached the end of term and what a busy one it’s been!

Since September we’ve welcomed 2,733 pupils from 54 different schools and we have set up and packed away our sessions a total of 86 times!

The feedback has also been great: ‘The visit answered questions which our scheme didn’t. The children learnt far more from the practical, engaging day than from several classroom based lessons.’

A huge thank you to all our schools who have visited this term and we’d like to wish you a very happy Christmas and a wonderful new year!