Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2009/January 2010 | Page 39
ISLAND HISTORY
Photo: Yarmouth Primary School
life
Photo: Yarmouth Mill
with closure but reprieved after a
destroyed again in 1524 in a second raid
and sold them but blamed the French.
cross-generational protest by local people.
and a new church had to be demolished
The present church of St. James’ was
Tennyson Road leads into St. James’
in 1635 because the footings gave way.
finished in 1626 and in 1831 the tower
Street where the Blind House, a house
Not only had the French left the town
was heightened and battlements added to
without windows was sometimes used
impoverished but it’s rumoured they took
it by the architect, Daniel Alexander, who
as a jail. In 1200 Yarmouth had two
the church bells to France to the church
designed the London docks, Dartmoor
churches but in 1377 both churches
of St. Peter and St. Paul at Boulogne
Prison and some of the Trinity House
were “utterly razed and defaced” when
where you can see the name Eremue
lighthouses. The work was done in
the French raided the town. Though
engraved on the metal: another story is
memory of his son, Henry, but sadly, his
St. James’ was repaired, the church was
that the townspeople took the bells down
brother, William, who had helped to build
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