Hundreds of children crowded onto the bridge to watch. Most never went home. Great Yarmouth, 1845: a clown sailed up the river in a tub pulled by four geese. As the crowd surged to one side to watch, a badly-welded chain snapped and the bridge tipped into the water. 79 drowned — 59 of them children, the youngest just two. Accident, or negligence? #BritishHistory #ForgottenHistory #VictorianHistory