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The old fire station in Great Yarmouth has a very imposing terracotta doorway. The building is now converted to flats.

Port and Haven Commissioners' Offices, 21 South Quay, Great Yarmouth. Built in 1909 by Olly and Haward. The apex of the gable contains a carving of a steamship and building date. The building is listed Grade II.

The Windmill Theatre in Great Yarmouth is today one of Britain's earliest surviving Cine Variety buildings. Designed by local architect Arthur S. Hewitt, the Gem opened on the 4th of July 1908 under the lessees the Yarmouth Amusement Centre Ltd, showing continuous 'Electric Vaudeville' all day long from 11am to 11pm at prices of 2, 4, and 6 pence per person, with shows lasting around an hour each. Notices outside the building read 'come in when you like, stay as long as you like'. The films were accompanied by a young lady at the piano, interspersed with songs from a lady vocalist, and occasional gramophone records. Three bioscope operators and three pianists were employed to be able to cope with the twelve hour long continuous programming. The Gem's interior was a simple hall 160 feet long by 40 feet wide with no stage and the cinema screen fixed to the back wall. There was no balcony and seating was on simple wooden chairs for around 700 people. Local by-laws prevented men and women sitting together under the proviso that it was immoral for men and women to sit together in a darkened hall so men sat on one side of the central aisle, and women on the other. In the following years a stage and balcony were added and it became the Gem Palace showing films, and with live variety shows on its new stage. A sound system was added in 1930. After closure during the war it reopened in 1946 as the Windmill Theatre and was soon providing the number two variety bills and popular summer shows in Great Yarmouth, a policy which continued well into the 1960s. It then saw use for a range of activities and exhibitions but is now closed. It is listed Grade II.

The Great Yarmouth bus depot was built for trams by Boulton and Paul of Norwich and was opened in 1898. It was severely damaged by bombing during WWII and reconstructed by 1947 apart from the façade, in an art-deco style with panels showing transport through the ages, which was constructed by F. R. Hipperson and Son Ltd in 1948.

The Great Yarmouth Hippodrome was built in 1903 asa circus building. Designed in an art nouveau style by architect Ralph Scott Cockrill it was built for the showman George Gilbert. It is one of only two purpose-built permanent circuses in England still in operation and is listed Grade II*.

Fastolff House was built as offices in 1908 to the design of R S Cockrill in a superb Art Nouveau style. The ‘W’ on this side door probably refers to James Williment who developed this block. Sadly somebody has recently placed the number 29 across it. The building is listed Grade II.

Corrugated iron to the fore on this building in Great Yarmouth, It may look out of use but the business is still running.

This building in Great Yarmouth was originally the School of Arts and Crafts, built in 1912 to the design of J W Cockrill. The construction comprises a steel frame and concrete, with brick cladding on the outside, and is an early example of this type of building. According to Pevsner the designer Cockrill had the nickname 'Concrete Cockrill' because of his love of using it as a building material. The building is listed grade II and now seems to have been converted to flats.

Great Yarmouth Power Station is combined cycle gas turbine power station on South Denes Road in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England, with a maximum output of 420 MW, opened in 2001. It is built on the site of an oil-fired power station, built in 1958 and closed and demolished in the 1990s. A coal-fired power station was built in Great Yarmouth in 1894 and operated until 1961. The station is operated by RWE.

Haven Bridge over the River Yare above South Quay in Great Yarmouth was opened by HRH Prince of Wales on 21st October 1930. This double bascule bridge replaced an earlier Haven Bridge that was opened to the public on October 21st 1854. There has been a bridge on this site since at least 1427.

Work on the third crossing of the Yare at Great Yarmouth commenced in January 2021 with completion expected in late summer 2023. The lift bridge will provide access to the port and enterprise zone enabling road traffic to avoid the town centre.

The surviving gasholder at Great Yarmouth was built in 1864 and is listed Grade II. If someone doesn't paint it soon then the listing will not save it from decay and ultimate destruction.