3-003-830 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Yarmouth Troll, or Beach-cart, 1861. 'This "coach," best explained in its Illustration, is a low beach-cart, used in the conveyance of the fish from the seaside: it is properly called a troll, and owes the origin of its construction to the narrowness of the streets aforesaid, which, consisting of a series of rows or alleys running parallel from east to west, have communication with the quay: they are in number upwards of 150, and are not of sufficient width to admit of the passage of the usual kind of cart. These trolls will carry a great load, the fishermen being great adepts in the height to which they will sometimes pack the baskets. They are still used in preference to other modes of conveyance, the communication with the quay through these alleys by the road from the beach being the most direct, an additional horse being attached to the shafts to drag them, when loaded, through the sands to the roadway'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.