Holidays in Hemsby
In 1950 my family started staying at Hemsby for a holiday each year. Would you believe that in those days you couldnt even buy a bag of chips. There was a small amusement arcade in Beach Road and a few machines at the tea rooms on the beach.
In fact the only take away food was from the cockle stall opposite the Lacons Arms.
In those early days the highlight of the week was to go to the local police house(PC Juby) and Mrs Juby would cook us chips. My parents knew the Juby family from when they were stationed in Attleborough.
We continued to go to Hemsby for many years.
After I left home my parents continued visiting for holidays right up until my Fathers
Death in 1988 and i would always try to join them there for a couple of days.
Somewhere I must have some pics of the family taken by the photographer as we walked down to the Lacons Arms for a vimto.
Roy Webster
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How well I remember childhood holidays at Hemsby. We holidayed there in the early sixties when I was aged from about 7 to 11. Although we only had to travel from Swaffham in mid Norfolk it seemed like going to another world. The sand dunes, the sea, the donkeys on the beach. I remember boat trips in a small boat called 'The Skylark', which, I think, was skippered by an old guy called Walter Cheney (?). When not giving pleasure trips it was used for inshore fishing. I also remember playing on a wrecked fishing boat which I think bore the name 'Boy Charlie' and was laid up behind the St John's first aid hut. There were 2 arcades, Ollie's and Chaneys as I remember. And of course the Lacons Arms pub. We used to stay in a bungalow in Beach Road called Pine View which was right beside the, then, bus terminus. In later years we stayed in another bungalow called Santa Cruz which, I think, was somewhere behind the Lacons Arms and near where the beach donkeys were grazed in the evenings. It was whilst in this bungalow, I remember making friends with a lad from Yorkshire called Sutcliffe, who was in Santa Barbara next door. Happy Days!!
Comment from Mervyn Head on Thursday, 16th September 2010.