Account for the Main feature in the development of Cromer 1500-1875

them to have this. In the 1500’s there wasn’t much need for people to be literate and numerate so to be an able bodied fisherman would raise your family. Although It is only worth a little to us now, 6 shillings and 8 pence was alot and we can only assume it would of been an equal cost of the boat. Being the most important factor of their lives, this shows in its simply stated form, the effect fishing had on the society.Cromer was also famed for their crabs and lobster. They exported them out to norwich and to london, showing us that the fame of Cromer’s fishing industry was spreading across the countryside, and norwich was a long way away for the,. 30 miles was far in those days, when travel had to be made on foot or horseback. This shows us how important the fishing was, not simply to feed families but to spread the name of cromer through the land even before Railways.Another Part of its development was the Coal and Corn industry. In the eighteenth century when farming went though the Agricultural revolution corn was exported to other european countries. It was stopped during the Napoleonic wars because france banned trading from england to its own shores. Corn was brought to cromer from thurther up the country and taken from cromer to other places. The granary was a large building situated at the top of the jetty leading back from the sea front. Having walked up the jetty (a slope made of cobbles that would once of been beaten earth) you would see a long building with a large door waiting with sacks of corn to be taken to ships and carried on. Using Cromer as a port shows its development, because it means that they were important enough and close enough to norwich to be needed. Many small fishing villages are still unknown but the use of Cromer as a port changes that.They also exported and imported coal. Coal is of course a fossil fuel and it was used to great extent. Dug up from mines ‘up north’ and taken on laden ships ‘colliers’ to ports such as cromer and their cargo’s were taken and distributed among those not lucky enough to live near a mine. The Collier ships were guided into the mud and left stuck, the tide would go out and the people would gather to remove the coal onto the shores. They were then taken in carts across the country to places not near enough to their own port to gain anything from them. This was an important factor in the development of cromer because it made use of it. People need these things and so it helped cromer's development. The rich were also attracted to the notion of watching them unload the ships, whether this is another manifestation of ‘slumming it’, or simply rich ladies liking to watch poor pretty men do hard work, can only be speculated upon.One of the last and most important factors in the development of cromer as a tourist resort before the coming of the railways was Dr Russell. Now Dr Russell, among other doctors, promoted the idea of spa towns. Suggesting that it helped ones health to take the air and to bathe in sea water. Brighton Cromer and Bath were all places that became famed for sea water and the like, among the gentry if not among the poor. Members of the local norfolk gentry made cromer their ‘watering place’. They had large holiday homes built and spent many months beside the sea. Bathing houses and the like became popular too. Bathing machines transported prude ladies to the sea to splash a little and then go back. “Cromer has for some years past been a summer resort of much genteel company, on account, as well of the beauty and pleasant ness of the country about it, as of the salubrity of the air and the convenience of the place for bathing.” The Universal British Directory.But sooner rather than later everybody wanted to sample the delights of the sea. The swift popularity of was a very key factor, if not the most important of all in the development of cromer before the railways. It lead them onwards into the abyss that was the holiday. In conclusion I think that Dr Russell’s theory of spa towns was the most conductive in the creation of cromer prior to the coming of the railways. The fishing trade made it what it was in the first place, and through fishing they came to become a port. Being a port brought to them trade from corn and coal, and through that came some of the rich, watching the ships being unloaded, and so came the tourism of the gentry. These were all very important factors because they made cromer into a destination, A place that people might want to come to and a place for a train company to plan their train tracks. Without these contributing factors, it might not have been as it was, and so the place that is now would not of been.