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Frederick Danby Palmer
A careful recorder of Great Yarmouth’s past, this nineteenth-century writer gathered local history from newspapers, records, and earlier antiquarian work. His books preserve the texture of everyday life in the town, from civic events to older landmarks.
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Yarmouth Notes, 1830-1872. Collated from the File of the Norwich Mercury
by Frederick Danby Palmer
About the author
Frederick Danby Palmer was a nineteenth-century English local historian associated with Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. The surviving catalog records for his work show him as the author of The Tolhouse at Great Yarmouth (1884) and Yarmouth Notes, 1830–1872, published in 1889.
His best-known book, Yarmouth Notes, 1830–1872, is a compilation drawn from the Norwich Mercury. Rather than writing a conventional narrative history, he assembled notices and reports that give readers a vivid sense of public life in Great Yarmouth across several decades.
Palmer also appears as the editor of the posthumous Leaves from the Journal of the late Chas. J. Palmer, F.S.A., which links him with the town’s wider antiquarian tradition. Reliable quick sources on his life are limited, so his work itself is the clearest guide to his interests: preserving local memory, documents, and the character of Great Yarmouth’s past.