NEW APRIL 2016.  This is a selection of proclamations by "the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Great Yarmouth" relating to the town's tramways.

First come the bye-laws for the Quay Tramways "made on the public highways and quays in the parish of Great Yarmouth by the Norfolk Railway Company ... and also any alterations thereof or additions thereto made by the Great Eastern Railway Company".  It is dated 5 December 1873.

Second are the bye-laws for the same Quay Tramways as they were on 11 December 1894.

Next come the bye-laws for the North Quay Tramway "made by the Yarmouth and North Norfolk Railway Company ... which tramway is now vested in the Midland Railway Company and the Great Northern Railway Company", also dated 11 December 1894.

Then follow the bye-laws for the Corporation Tramways (i.e. the town's trams), dated 18 June 1902.

Finally come the charges levied on goods unloaded from ships, as they stood on 7 December 1871. There were two elements for this - the tramway's rate which was quite straightforward, and the wharfage rates which were much more detailed. The latter illustrate the range of cargoes handled at the quays in the nineteenth century.

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