The Tolhouse Museum — Attraction in Great Yarmouth

This is only a small museum, but they are friendly and eagerly welcomed us and are so good with children. There were colouring and brass rubbing activities, a lovely pirate ship toy and figures to play with. Do take your time to talk and read about what you see although we did the best bits in a few minutes. It has lots of stairs and the gaol in the basement is a bit dark and atmospheric. Makes you think how awful to be...

An interesting little place, we visited as we had just been to the Tide and Time Museum a few mins away and got a discount voucher. Close enough to walk between the two. Won't take long to go through the whole place but price reflects this and you can spend 30 mins - 1 hour here if you do the activities and read the info boards. Only negative is there's no toilet on site but there's a library just behind with a toilet...

We went to the special event where the kids could use catapults. That was the only bit of the museum that they enjoyed. My son hated the prison cells he is 6 so we didn't really have a look on that floor. We were in the museum for nearly 2 hours and most of that was because of the catapults. The people who work at tollhouse are really friendly and informative. It was worth a look but now I have seen it we won't...