Archive for the ‘North Norfolk’ Category

  • Mundesley

    Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

    Mundesley is a village on the North Norfolk coast which is set in beautiful countryside and has a population of around 2,500. Made popular in Victorian times due to a fine seaside location, sandy beach and wonderfully invigorating fresh air, Mundesley enjoyed a boom period which included the arrival of a railway station to the [...]

  • Happisburgh

    Monday, April 26th, 2010

    The coastal village of Happisburgh is famous for the coastal erosion which acts upon the cliffs here. Houses which were once a safe distance from the edge of the cliff are now dangerously close to the sheer drop. Various attempts to control the erosion by building sea defences, mainly in the 1950s, have largely been [...]

  • A Special Connection Across the Atlantic

    Monday, September 28th, 2009

    The market town of Hingham is most famous for its special connection across the Atlantic. The town produced a proud daughter town when, in the early 1600s, many of the town’s Puritan residents emigrated to a colony on Massachusetts, at Bear Cove. This emigration was lead by the former vicar Robert Peck alongside Peter Hobart, [...]

  • Norfolk Life and Interior Design

    Friday, February 20th, 2009

    Miv Watts Design offers an insight into Norfolk Life in the form of her beautiful interior design.  Miv’s showroom, located in Burnham Market offers a wide range of furniture, fabrics and accessories for the descerning client.  Having worked on behalf of Holkham Hall, Miv has the ideal eye for Norfolk interior design.

  • Coastal Photography by Martin Billing

    Sunday, November 16th, 2008

    Martin Billing resides in the beautiful county of Norfolk.  He specialises in Coastal Photography in his home county.  With locations such as Hunstanton, Holkham and Blakeney he is spoilt for choice when it comes to selecting the best scenes for his work. From his shop located on the famous coast road through Holkham, Martin sells [...]

  • Cromer introduces the first DVD postcard

    Monday, July 21st, 2008

    The summer season in Cromer has always been the time to visit this well known seaside town and send postcards home to your friends and family about what a wondeful vacation you are having, and to probably complain about the weather at the same time! This tradition however, could all be about to change in [...]

  • Hunstanton Tennis Week

    Thursday, June 26th, 2008

    Each year Hunstanton becomes host to it’s own extremely popular annual tennis tournament. The event has been running since the 1920′s and is believed to be one of the largest tennis tournaments in the UK. In 2008, the event runs from Sunday 17th August to Saturday 23rd August. Link: Hunstanton Tennis Week.

  • Cromer Crabs

    Thursday, June 26th, 2008

    Crab are a large part of the income of the town of Cromer. Historically the crab were only caught in the summer months, in autumn the fishermen brought Herring to the town, and winter cod was the main catch. This has now changed to solely bringing crab and lobster to the town.

  • Classic Norfolk Scenes

    Thursday, June 26th, 2008

    North Norfolk’s natural beauty makes it a hotspot for photography. Professional photographers such as Bringing The Outside In offer high quality prints of the beaches, fields and seascapes that the county has to offer. The West Rudham website contains a gallery of norfolk photos.

  • The Albatros Clipper Ship

    Thursday, June 26th, 2008

    Now anchored in Wells-next-the-sea, is a 100 year old Dutch clipper, built in Rotterdam in 1899. When she does venture away – either on a day trip or back to her native waters off the Dutch coast, it is not long before she return to the quayside. As one of the oldest sailing ships still [...]