A Monthly Publication

Mick Mossendew. (Organist-St. Mary's)

The three organ recitals in the summer series at St. Mary's Parish Church, Old Hunstanton are as follows-:

August 12th. 7.30pm Adrian Richards.(Director of Musicat the Priory Church of St. Margarets, King's Lynn)

August 19th. 7.30pm James Thomas.(Organist and Master of the music at St. Edmundsbury Cathedral,Bury St. Edmunds.)

August 26th.7.30pm Dr. Roy Massey.M.B.E. (Formerly Director of Music at Hereford Cathedral) This will be Roy's 25th recital at ...
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Two psychiatrists were at a convention. "What was your most difficult case?" one asked the other. "Once I had a patient who lived in a pure fantasy world," replied his colleague. "He believed that a wildly rich uncle in South America was going to leave him a fortune. All day long he waited for a make-believe letter to arrive from a fictitious attorney. He never went out or did anything. He just sat around and waited." "What was the result?" "It was an eight-year struggle, but I finally cured h...
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Daniel Holland assistant pastor The Way

My wife and I like to walk along the promenade in Hunstanton even in the winter! We have noticed how popular water sports are, water skiing, sailing, windsurfing and in particular kite surfing. In rough weather kite surfers come out to prepare their equipment and you can feel their exhilaration and desire to get into the wind and white horses, the wilder the better. My admiration goes out to them, have you ever thought how much skill they have? First o

Sundays at 8am 10.30am & 5pm. The Eucharist is also celebrated on Tuesdays at 7pm, Wednesdays at 10.30am and Saturday at 9am. We meet also to say the Rosary on the 3^rd Wednesday of the month at 9.50am, 16^th of June.

Please contact the vicar for Baptisms and Weddings.

Father John Bloomfield, The Vicarage, 53 Northgate, Tel. 01485 532531

(Church of Our Lady and St Edmund, Sandringham Road, with St Cecilia’s, Dersingham)

During the months of July and August, when our population is swelled by the many people who choose to spend their holidays here, there is an extra Mass at Hunstanton on Saturday evenings. The mass times for these two months are:
Saturday 6pm Mass at Hunstanton
Sunday 9am Mass at Dersingham
Sunday 11am Mass at Hunstanton.

We look forward to welcoming many visitors to our services during the summer, and w...
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Mick Mossendew. (Organist-St. Mary's)

The three organ recitals in the summer series at St. Mary's Parish Church, Old Hunstanton are as follows-:

August 12th. 7.30pm Adrian Richards.(Director of Musicat the Priory Church of St. Margarets, King's Lynn)

August 19th. 7.30pm James Thomas.(Organist and Master of the music at St. Edmundsbury Cathedral,Bury St. Edmunds.)

August 26th.7.30pm Dr. Roy Massey.M.B.E. (Formerly Director of Music at Hereford Cathedral) This will be Roy's 25th recital at ...
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(9^th – 15^th May)

Joy Webb.

The Saturday morning collection in the High Street, by a small team of volunteers from the Methodist Church, Our Lady and St Edmund’s and St Edmund’s, raised £165.49.

Christian Aid envelopes distributed in the churches and with “The Link” magazines brought in another £500 and half of that was Gift Aided, which will add even more for Christian Aid to use for its work with poor and needy people in many parts of the world.

Thank you very much, those...
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Thank you all who supported our Plant Sale, which raised £188.37 for Autism Anglia, the charity the church is helping this year. It was a most enjoyable event, in glorious weather, and we had an impressive array of plants to sell, some grown by Autism Anglia staff and clients. It was really good to work together in this way.

Earlier in May, church member David Elvidge (yes, he’s a Newsletter deliverer too!) raised £400 in sponsorship for the same good cause when he completed the 10km run...
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Joanna

Verses like this can give a clue to past happenings, when it was written wild flowers would have been in abundance and the prohibition on picking them un-necessary. How things have changed, all the clean farming and heavy traffic has affected our wild flowers. Also the urge to have immaculate gardens has cut back on the variety there is about. Hopefully you will have noticed the verges and their wash of Queen Anne’s lace punctuated with the bright scarlet of the Poppies, why do they

It's Festival time in Old Hunstanton!!! The Flower Festival has been going since 1969, providing grand displays in the excellent surroundings of the beautiful XIV century St Marys Church. Visitors are invited to view the interpretations to a background of gentle music or singing.

Over the years different themes as diverse as “Nursery Rhymes” and “Nelson and other Norfolk Heroes” have delighted visitors to the festival. This year the theme is “All Good Gifts Around Us” and already ...
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Cynthia Easeman

The idea of completing a Sponsored Walk was suggested by Pauline Holland, who is also the treasurer of the Kings Lynn and District Guide Dogs Fund Raising Committee.

The first event was in 2006, when about 15 people took part and raised £232.00, last year 30 entered and £600.00 was pledged.

This year the walk takes place on Sunday 15^th August at Sandringham Country Park (by the visitor’s centre) starting at 11 am. There are 2 routes (blue or yellow trail) one or two mil...
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Brownies news

We have had a very flowery month, we planted sunflowers in the Union Church Garden that we had grown from seeds. We also took part in Hunstanton St Edmunds Summer Festival, where we made artificial flowers with all sorts of materials including dusters and tea bags. The theme was Hunstanton past and present, so we incorporated in our display photos of Guiding past and present and past and present uniform.

Guides news

Over the May bank holiday, 1st Hunstanton Guides spe...
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For over twenty years the Hunstanton and District Talking Newspaper charity has been producing ‘The Beacon’ using local news from the Lynn News, Citizen and West Norfolk pages of the EDP.

The Beacon is a weekly C60 audio cassette tape which is put together every Tuesday and posted to around fifty blind and partially sighted listeners free of charge.

The Beacon has now increased its coverage of local news by using items from our local newsletters and we are presently using The Dersingha...
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The Royal Horticultural Society has announced the dates when they will judge Hunstanton’s entry in the Anglia-in-Bloom competition as Tuesday 13^th July, and 3^rd August for the town’s Britain-in-Bloom entry. It will not be easy to improve on the results of last year when Hunstanton achieved Gold and Silver Gilt awards respectively, although hopes are high as more local volunteers, organisations and businesses than in previous years are making their own special contributions towards these co...
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A crowd gathered outside M & Co’s new store in the former Woolworths building in Hunstanton High Street on Saturday 19th June waiting for the Mayor Cllr Peter Mallam to formally open the store to customers for the first time.

Cllr Mallam accompanied by Deputy Mayor Carol Bower welcomed manager Yvonne Starr and her staff to the town and wished them every success, adding that the store was a very welcome addition to the retail offering in the town.

As the ribbon was cut, over a hundred ...
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Edd Howes

This July see the pay and play golf course at Searles Resort celebrate its 10^th anniversary.

Over the ten years the course has matured well and now has a good membership base of locals and Searles owners, the fairways have reached a good standard and the greens are constant and playable all year. Many minor changes have been made during the ten years including new fairway bunkers and more water hazards making the course more of a challenge to experienced golfers but still playable...
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Dick Melton

The Kit Kat public house stood right at the end of Seagate next to the Promenade at Hunstanton. It opened in May 1935 and closed down in September 1986. It consisted of a downstairs lounge bar that would seat 300 and an upstairs ballroom that would hold 250. This doubled up as a restaurant in the daytime. Also o the ground floor was another small restaurant called the ‘Salad Bowl’ and a small bar called the ‘Salted Almond’. Attached to all this were two kitchens, three fla...
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Geoff Needham

Monday 24th May at 7.40 p.m. Hunstanton Lifeboat DJS Haverhill launched on service to a report of a Kite surfer was in trouble off Hunstanton, on arrival to the casualty it was confirmed that the 40 yr old local man was unable to get his kite airborne due to the lack of wind and was drifting out to sea with the tide, the volunteer crew recovered the person and his gear then landed him on the beach, returning to station at 8.00 p.m.

Thursday 27th May were called out twice durin...
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On May 3rd one of Hunstanton’s most well known fundraisers David Foulkes found himself being arrested by the Police from RAF Marham; but don’t worry, it was all for a good cause. David was trying to raise much needed funds for The Royal British Legion, SSAFA Forces Help and Help for Heroes.

David was arrested on The Green at about 10.30am by the then Mayor Cllr Christine Earnshaw and two officers from Marham, Gavin Smith and Scott Welcher. David was then whisked off to the cells at Marha...
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30^th July to 2^nd August

Last year at The Old Hunstanton Flower Festival, we introduced for the first time, a stand called 'Bling Bling'.

We would like to expand this further this year and will join the second hand clothes marquee to bring ladies,

a magical array of clothes, jewellery, scarves, belts, hats and handbags. Ladies, this marquee is well worth a visit, at the Festival. You may find a real treasure! We are happy to have broken beads as well.

I would like to ask everyone to spri...
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Peter J James

Some attribute it to man’s supposed aquatic ancestry, whilst others blame the Prince Regent and the eighteenth century physicians for their promotion of ‘Sea bathing’ as a panacea. The more pragmatic souls among us seek the answer no further back than cheap travel and Billy Butlin. Whatever the explanation, ‘Thalassopetaly’, that is an overwhelming desire to visit the seaside, is a fact and if you have any doubts just take a look at the streams of north-bound traffic ...
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By Sandra Hohol

I always try to report on the bright side with updates on Lavender Hill and information which may relate to us and other organisations. But sadly this month we suffered a loss. Something which had become very important to us over the past few years.

This year’s first outside event was the Scarecrow Festival at Millbridge Nursing Home in Heacham.  The weather outlook was not too bad and we had only just finished making preparations with everyone looking forward to a great...
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Polish troops

I am attempting to discover where in North-West Norfolk Polish troops were based during WWII and what units they were.  I have just discovered that they might have been linked with armoured train units based in the area.

Information from any reader who has knowledge of such

units would be most welcome.
Eric Rhodes, CLOAKING

Information service

Would you consider including an advice service in the Newsletter to answer readers' queries of general interes...
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Lee Knights

www.londonsalsascene.co.uk , photos by Mike Payne

Four years ago, ballroom and Latin American dance instructor Terri Flett took a group of students to a dance weekend at the Piccadilly Hotel in Bournemouth.  “It was just a holiday with my students, that was it. When I saw the ballroom, I fell in love,” said Terri, “It was a beautiful space for dancing and the floor was perfect.”

Weeks afterward, Terri had a casual conversation with a local dance teacher friend. “All...
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Peter Mills

We’ve had a very good 2010 so far in helping local people and organisations in our area, and we really would like to hear from anyone who thinks that we may be able to help them. As you already know (we hope) our motto is “We Serve”, and we sincerely mean to stand by it. A few examples of recent local causes that we have donated to are to a local Girl Guide troop to enable all of them to attend a Centenary Camp and “Norjam” in Norwich later in the year. This will be a g

Amanda Whitehill

The dogs were certainly out in force at Glebe House School for the annual dog show which is turning out to be one of the highlights of the Hunstanton social calendar.

We were fortunately blessed with excellent weather and we were delighted to see a large number of dogs turning up on the day.

We know at glebe house School, just how important your dog is to you and our aim was for every dog to go home with a rosette. However, due to the overwhelming number of dogs that tur...
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Bo Bostrom aged 7 1/2 West Highland Terrier

My son Charlie and I had a smashing afternoon at the Fun Dog Show and Fete at Glebe House School. This woz our first show and mum made us wash behind our fluffy ears and we had bin brushed. I couldn't understand wot all the fuss woz about.

The sun came out and it woz a bootiful day. I have never seen so many dogz all in one place. I am plezed to say all the owners were well behaved-and us dogz too. Mind you it'd been our Charlie who'd of s...
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Turnstone

RAG is not a derogatory name, invoked in an attempt to justify an irrational decision by the borough council to ban this Newsletter from its premises. RAG stands for the Hunstanton “Residents’ Action Group”.

Two recent developments prompted the emergence of RAG. Firstly, there was the controversial application to erect a six-storey apartment block on the Kit Kat site. A decision on this application was deferred until the first Monday in July when the Development Control Bo...
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Nicki Bowman

Well its July, the sun should hopefully remember exactly what time of year it is and come out from hiding, I mean I’ve heard of hide and seek but this is getting silly, we all give up, you win, great hiding place...but games over now.

June for me was an extremely busy one, working, being a mum to my 3 wonderful children and a wife to my hard working lovely (can I add) husband...I decided to go out on a whim......My Whim?  To put a live band in the Town Hall, Hunstanton, ad...
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John Maiden

A few weeks ago I mentioned the possibility of brightening up the promenade with an idea imported all the way from Capitola, a seaside town in California, where decorative tiles - each depicting a holiday memory - have been used to great effect.

More recently, the mural on the external wall of a toilet block in Old Hunstanton gave me an idea to use a combination of tiles and murals to enliven a wall in Hunstanton, which must hold special memories for many visitors and reside...
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The aims and objectives are stated in our Constitution and include the following:-

(1) To promote high standards of planning and architecture in or affecting the area of benefit.

We are very keen to see the original architecture of Hunstanton and its setting respected. We monitor and comment on Hunstanton planning applications. We helped to establish the enlarged conservation area.

(2) To educate the public in the geography, history, natural history and architecture in the area of benefit....
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Martin Chown, Chair

Why do we have a Civic Society in Hunstanton? Some may wonder.

We are quite clear about it. In the words of our new national umbrella organisation, Civic Voice, the aims of Civic Societies are to make places more attractive, enjoyable and distinctive. We promote civic pride.

In Hunstanton, we are very fortunate. We have one of the best situations on the East coast, unique in our west-facing sunset, our beautiful carrstone faced buildings, our Victorian heritage. We have...
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As part of the fundraising for the hall renovations, the group will be having stalls at both the Hunstanton Carnival and the Kite Festival. We will be running a tombola stall and selling books, so if anyone has any items they would like to donate, please either drop it off at the hall or contact us to let us know.

A couple of us will also be doing a sponsored bike ride along Pedders Way. from Knettishall Heath to Holme - all 46 miles!. This will be taking place on Saturday 21st August. If an...
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Lisa Powell, Hunstanton Town Clerk

I became aware of Hunstanton Rotary Club some ten years ago. I began attending some of their events and talking to long-standing Rotarians. By talking to these wonderful people I realised that the motto “Service Before Self” is something genuinely held strong in the heart of each Rotarian.

Approximately three years ago I was invited to a Rotary Luncheon and made to feel extremely welcome. I began to help out at some of their events. I often thought abo...
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Rotarian John Harris

As she relinquishes office at the end of her year as the first lady President of the club, Rotarian Muriel Motley looks back on an extremely successful and eventful year.

Since the beginning of 2010, the President’s Evening has been held at the Le Strange Arms Hotel in Old Hunstanton, a dinner in Sedgeford Village Hall with entertainment by Peter (‘Waddo’) Waddison raised over £600 towards the worldwide eradication of polio scheme (for which a collection was al...
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Jim Welham

In 1907 a Royal Commission commenced enquiring into the reasons for the encroachment of the sea on various parts of the coast of the United Kingdom and was required to recommend ways to reduce the amount of land that had been washed away in recent years.

On 15 November that year, Hamon Le Strange appeared before the commission’s Coastal Erosion Committee sitting at Great George Street, Westminster, chaired by the Honourable Ivor Guest M.P. He gave evidence that he that he was ...
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Julie Goddard

You may have been wondering what has been happening in the Heacham group for the past few months. I have been in Australia visiting my family but another Consultant has been looking after the group for me. I thought you would like an update on our news in group. We have exciting times ahead of us as we are about to ‘go computerised’! This will speed up signing in and streamline our admin.

This week in group we have a taster evening, the theme being snacks. I am providing a...
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12^th June – 5.05 pm

Yarmouth Coastguard requested the immediate launch of our lifeboat to a kite surfer reported to be in trouble about ½ mile off Old Hunstanton.

Hunstanton RNLI volunteer crew launched on service at 5.05 pm. On arrival at the scene the casualty was in the surf close to the shore.

Crewman Ian Devenney entered the water and swam to the surfer who had become entangled in his rigging with the lines wrapped round his neck and legs and was unable to free himself.  He tol...
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.....a Pantomime in Hunstanton!

So what's it all about?

The Hunstanton Pantomime is to be Robin Hood at Hunstanton Town Hall from Thursday 6th January to Sunday 9th January with performances each evening at 7.30pm, and matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 2.30pm. Tickets are £7.50 full price, and £5 concessions.

John Harris of Heacham, who inaugurated the pantomime in the village of Loddon (South Norfolk) and who wrote and presented three highly successful pantomimes in the 1970's (a tra...
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– crash or correction?

Robin Sainty, IFA Corporate

May proved to be a volatile month on stockmarkets as the double whammy of the Greek bond crisis and the BP oil fiasco in the Gulf of Mexico created a high level of unease, in addition to which we have found ourselves with a hung Parliament in the UK and the first coalition Government since the 1940s.

The FTSE shed around 10%, so what are the prospects going forward for equity backed investments? Last year saw private investors pouring ...
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Have you ever tasted a French galette?
These are not to be confused with the sweet salty buttery galettes from the Breton region of France - more comparable with a French crepe only this is the savoury version made with buckwheat pancakes and all manner of fillings.
Most popular is the cheese, egg and ham galette (galette complet), which melts in your mouth oozing cheese and ham while golden egg peeps out from the brown crispy folds of the pancake, hearty like a hot English breakfast,�...
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Max Dolby

On Friday, 28th May, as part of the Summer Festival at St. Edmund’s Church, about thirty members of this splendid choir gave a most enjoyable performance.

Their conductor, Ian Elliott, quickly established a genial rapport with the audience as he introduced items from the programme, and clearly had the same kind of happy relationship with his singers, who obviously enjoyed themselves.

There was a lovely mixture of music from the full choir and from smaller groups within it an...
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Tony Foster

Holme-next-the-Sea has been staging an annual Open Gardens Day for more than ten years - and this year is no exception! On Sunday July 11^th ten gardens around the this pretty coastal village will be open to visitors who are free to wander around at leisure to see what other people do with their gardens.

Refreshments, including a variety of salads and a wonderful selection of homemade cakes, are available during the day at the village hall - we find lots of our visitors enjoy our...
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8 Staying the course

A summer’s day in June, just the sort of day for a picnic on the beach at “Sunny Hunny” - except that the weather wasn’t good, it wasn’t Hunstanton, and this was certainly no picnic. A heavy sea was running and not only was LBE38 the largest and slowest vessel in the flotilla, but for the men aboard her it was sheer misery. Crammed shoulder to shoulder they had no place to be sea-sick. Some had no time to contemplate this misery as they bailed for their lives t...
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First an apology to all garden lovers and the residents of Holme-next-the-Sea. In last month’s newsletter we reported that the Open Gardens in aid of St Mary’s Church was to be on 11th August. This is wrong. The event is this month; on Sunday 11th July. Please make a note in your diaries and don’t miss the ten gardens and additional attractions. Details are on page 6.

The news that Hunstanton’s Pantomime at the Princess theatre Was being moved to King’s Lynn was a real blow to the ...
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