Cromer
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Map of Norfolk
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Cromer books (4 available)
- 7 photos on Cromer appear in 5 Frith books - View photos of Cromer
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Cromer memories
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Lighthouse keeper
My great grandfatherwas lighthouse keeper at Cromer - Mr Hopkins
Contributed by Grace Leaman
Family connections with the 'Louisa Hartwell'.
My father and grandfather both served with Henry Blogg on the 'Louisa Hartwell' and my dad was one of the pallbearers when Henry Blogg died.
Contributed by Mrs M Wright
Summer Holiday 1958
This is a front view of the Elmhurst Hotel, which stood - or stands? - in Cabbell Road, where my family and I stayed for two weeks in August 1958. I wonder if the building is still a hotel? I took a similar photo, which is in my album for that year. I also have two group photos of all the folk who were staying in the hotel at the same time as my family and I.
Contributed by Diana Dioszeghy
Summer holiday, 1958
My family and I stayed in the Elmhurst Hotel, Cromer for two weeks during August 1958. My brother and I made several coach excursions from Cromer - to Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Sandringham, King's Lynn and Ely. I went alone to Sheringham by train - the trains were still running then! - and found a most interesting book - which I still have - in a secondhand bookshop. I remember the beach there was most peculiar - divided by an almost straight line into areas of shingle and sand. We all went on a boat trip on the Norfolk Broads, and by train to Norwich for the day. On Cromer pier there was the Guinness clock telling Guinness time - on the ...read more here
Contributed by Diana Dioszeghy
Extracts From Cromer & Norfolk books
Cromer stands high and bracing on its breezy cliffs, from which stairs and zig-zag paths lead down to the sands. On undeveloped tastes Cromer would be thrown away. The cliffs are brown and sandy, the sea blue and the landscape of a universal green. You can wander for miles along the cliffs amongst such a variety of wild flowers as is rarely seen collected together.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Seaside".
Cromer’s lifeboat men are renowned for their gallantry. Henry Blogg, coxwain of the ‘Louisa Heartwell’, pictured here, was the most decorated lifeboat man in Britain, earning three gold and four silver medals, the George Cross, and the British Empire medal for his bravery. Most of the Cromer rescues were carried out on the treacherous Haisboro’ Sands.
An extract from from"East Anglia".
On the road leading to the priory gateway, this fine 14th-century, jettied, timber-frame building may have been built for visitors to the abbey. The period petrol pumps have now gone.
An extract from from"Norwich Photographic Memories".
The spacious market-place was established by 1130, but the present timber-framed ‘cross’ building dates from 1617. It replaced the original after yet another Norfolk fire gutted the town centre.
An extract from from"Norwich Photographic Memories".
This was the former water mill. Smartened up, with its brickwork painted, the mill is now a house. It was powered by the head waters of the River Ant, canalised in 1826 as the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.
An extract from from"Norwich Photographic Memories".