Atlas Fire and Life Office, Mr. W. P. Pillans.
Clerical and Medical Life Office, Mr. John Hargraves.
English and Cambrian Life Assurance and Loan Society, Mr. B. Chaston.
Farmers’ and General Hail Storm, Mr. B. Chaston.
Norwich Union, Mr. William Massey.
Suffolk Alliance, Mr. Alfred Griffin.
Unity, Mr. W. Rook.
YARMOUTH.
Yarmouth or Great Yarmouth, is, next to Norwich, the most important town in the Eastern Counties, celebrated for its fisheries, its shipping, trade, and manufactures, and is also much frequented in the season as a bathing-place. It is distant 19 miles E. by S. from Norwich, 9 miles N. from Lowestoft, and 123 miles N.E. from London. The population of the town and borough, including Gorleston and Southtown was, in 1851, 30,879. The town derives its name from the Yare, on the east bank of which river it is situated. There are very few principal streets, but in the more modern parts are some commanding edifices. The north and south quays, extending for nearly a mile and a quarter, and very broad, are among the peculiar and interesting features of Yarmouth. The principal streets run parallel with the quays, and are crossed by 145 narrow lanes, called rows, which are numbered; it is for the traversing of these rows that the many small narrow carts are used which abound in Yarmouth.
There is a new and elegant bridge over the Yare. A handsome and substantial suspension bridge crosses the Bure, over the same spot whence 79 persons were suddenly plunged by the fall of the previous bridge in May, 1845; whilst a handsome iron tubular bridge, in two compartments, connects the railway with the tramways, which extend the entire length of the quays. The New Pier is a great accommodation to the visitors and inhabitants.