Town set to welcome the Prince of Wales

Monday 20th February 2012

The Prince of Wales is to visit Great Yarmouth on Monday February 27, arriving at Vauxhall Station by Royal train. 

The Prince will visit the directors and staff of Palmers department store in the Market Place to launch their 175th anniversary celebrations of being in the town.

Later, he will call in on St George’s Chapel to see the building works in progress and find out about the conservation and specialist trades being involved in turning the building into a centre for the arts later in the year.

The Prince will also visit Seachange Arts Trust in its new premises at York Drill Hall.  Seachange Arts, which delivers circus and street arts events, came about following a visit by the Prince in the early 1990s.

Before leaving the borough, the Royal visitor will go to Great Yarmouth College to meet students and staff before joining in a discussion with young people taking part in The Prince’s Trust Team Programme in the town.

The Mayor, councillor Barry Coleman, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for the people of the Borough to come along to the Market Place to give The Prince of Wales a Great Yarmouth welcome. We are very honoured to have a visit from His Royal Highness in this very special Diamond Jubilee year.”

Richard Packham, managing director of Great Yarmouth Borough Council, said: “Great Yarmouth has some very exciting times ahead and I am sure that HRH will be very pleased to see all that is going on in the town.”