# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZdD39noqXd
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66519560-wild-history-uk-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/f0c955974f.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-06-11T17:33:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

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

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- **Likes:** 264
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## Tags

forgottenhistory, victorianhistory, britishhistory

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