 Great Yarmouth had an electric tramway system from 1902 to 1933.From the 1880s until the First World War, the town was a regular destinations for Bass Excursions, when 15 trains would take 8000–9000 employees of Bass's Burton brewery on an annual trip to the seaside.During World War I Great Yarmouth suffered the first aerial bombardment in the UK, by Zeppelin "L3" on 19 January 1915.