The images are fading now.
 
I pondered getting the women’s ones and putting them on over my trousers, but decided against it. It wasn’t quite sunny enough for transvestism.

Wellington Pier has had quite some renovation in recent years. What used to be an outdoor walkway up to the theatre building is now a covered arcade.

Immediately to the side are the Winter Gardens. How I’ve sweltered in these…Not a good place for a rendezvous!

Next we find one of the big, late-80s attractions, the Sealife Centre. This wasn’t part of my childhood at all. Instead, it represents Great Yarmouth remaining vibrant through all eras.

I remember sitting in a small audio-theatre room within the Sealife Centre, in what must have been 1989, as a promotional video showed Pleasurewood Hills’ new Enterprise ride (which seemed overwhelmingly massive).

Next to it, Amazonia (formerly a butterfly house) – another attraction of a similar era - has long provided a taste of the exotic, with its lizards and crocodiles, not to mention the extreme humidity contrasting the bracing air outside.

Not that Great Yarmouth is always cold. On a hot summer’s day, I could barely imagine anywhere more exotic. As you gaze out across the dunes, from the shade of the columned area outside a white-painted tea room, feelings of the Mediterranean are evoked.
 
Or as strong a feeling that England can muster, perhaps!