 Through the 20th century, Yarmouth was a booming resort, with a promenade, pubs, trams, fish-and-chip shops and theatres, as well as the Pleasure Beach, the Sea Life Centre, the Hippodrome Circus and the Time and Tide Museum, and a surviving Victorian seaside Winter Garden in cast iron and glass.The town itself is on a spit of land between the North Sea and River Yare.It features historic rows of houses in narrow streets and a main tourist sector on the seafront.