| A page from the sage |
Dick Melton
I would first like to thank Mr Trevor Bell for pointing out the deliberate mistakes that I made in the August issue of the Newsletter. I have never seen dragon’s teeth in reality, only on diagrams and photographs, so thank you Trevor for putting me right.
Now, for all those pillboxes, Le-Strange car park, between St Mary’s Church and the A149 there were also tank traps, road blocks and anti tank blocks in this area. At St Edmund’s Point the...
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| News from Glebe House School | By Joanna Bostrom
Sadly the ‘Car Boot Season’ is coming to an end, our last one being on Sunday 25th October. At the time of writing we have only lost one due to bad weather otherwise what a tremendous success the boot sales have been
It has been enjoyable working with the Hunstanton Lions and this has enabled us to hold car boots more regularly. A big thank you from myself and everyone at Glebe as you’ve helped us raise money and hopefully using the school...
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| We need your help | Our shop is on the corner of Manor and Sandringham Roads, Dersingham. The building is roughly a hundred years old, though we understand the site has had a variety of uses prior to the current construction.
We believe that many years ago this junction was known as Parker’s corner. Parker’s was a provision’s supplier to Sandringham House. Several people have told us about their experiences of working for Mr Parker and we would like to put together in chronologica...
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| Deal or no deal? |
By John Maiden
In early September a Civic Society colleague sent me an email he had received from someone who is contemplating a move to Hunstanton. I am always interested to learn how visitors and newcomers see my home town, but this person has already concluded that the Civic Society is spending too much time on trying to correct mistakes made by the borough council (BCKLWN) in its handling of issues relating to The Green and the 'Pier'. He has even asked for an assurance ...
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| Crabby old man | What do you see nurses? .... . . ... What do you see?
What are you thinking .... ......... . when you're looking at me?
A crabby old man, ... . .......... .not very wise,
Uncertain of habit . . .. . ......... . with faraway eyes?
Who dribbles his food . ............ and makes no reply.
When you say in a loud voice ..... 'I do wish you'd try!'
Who seems not to notice ......... . the things that you do.
And forever is losing . . . . . . .... A sock or shoe?
Who, resisting or not . . . ..... . lets you d
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| Posh canary notes | By John Maiden
After that record-breaking 7-1 home defeat to Colchester United, Norwich City wasted no time in persuading the U's manager, Paul Lambert, to take over the managerial vacancy at Carrow Road caused by the dismissal of Canary legend, Bryan Gunn following that disastrous start to the season.
My initial reaction was to think how much more simple life would be if council leaders and senior officers could be sacked just as quickly when they lose million...
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| Pinkie breakfaast |
Dave Hawkins, Visitor officer, Titchwell Marsh RSPB
What is a Pinkie Breakfast I can hear you asking? Well here, in northwest Norfolk, we are blessed with one of the best avian spectacles in the world; that is the dawn flight of thousands of pink-footed geese leaving their dawn roost on the Wash.
Pink-footed geese breed in Iceland and Greenland and come to the UK for the winter. As I write in mid September, the first arrivals of the year are making landfall high over our local beaches; the...
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| Report from Hunstanton lifeboat station | By Geoff Needham
On the 14th August 2009 at 2051 hrs Yar. CG requested launch of Hunstanton Lifeboat to go to the aid of a cabin cruiser reported to have fouled his propeller in the Freeman channel some 12 mls west of the L/boat station with two person's on board and needed assistance, his only means of communication were by mobile telephone and a torch, he was not sure of his exact position, during the search the L/boat crew put up a flare and the CG asked if he saw the flare, yes came th...
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| Christmas shoe box appeal |
It is time again to plan and work towards the Christmas Shoe Boxes we send from Hunstanton and the surrounding area to Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. Last year we sent 826 boxes from this corner of Norfolk and 1.2 million from the UK. Our shoe boxes went to Serbia or Kyrgyzstan.
A report on the Serbian delivery was featured in a Samaritan’s Purse newsletter. A community called Deponia or ‘rubbish dump’ exists under the Gazella Bridge in Belgrade and is ...
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| LHMTC News | By Sandra Hohol
AMANDA HOLDEN IS OUR NEW PATRON!!!! Last month I reported that I had met her and within days she had emailed to say the following;
I am thrilled and honoured to become a Patron of your Theatre Group. I can see that everything you do comes from your hearts and is something you truly believe in and love. There is nothing better in the world than being on stage or performing live in front of an audience and loving what you do! Aren't we lucky?! Keep believing, keep dreaming!!
Lot...
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| Surveying the steam trawler sheraton | By Dr Simon Draper, Trustee and Non-Executive Director, Nautical Archaeology Society.
All residents and many visitors will know of the wreck on Hunstanton beach. It lies in the intertidal zone south of the historic lighthouse. Built in 1907, the Sheraton represents an historic phase in trawler construction as metal replaced wood. Between 1915 and 1918, the vessel was used during boom defence work and in WW II served as a patrol vessel. She was wrecked in 1947.
Survey and excavation work ...
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| Two too many |
By Edward Wheatley
I know it takes two to tango, but why does it take two people to go round a supermarket to get the shopping?
Before you answer you will no doubt wish to debate the matter with a friend for several minutes. Standing side-by-side with your trolleys and wives in tow at the most congested place in the veggies section next to a loaded cage. A discussion which would also include details of your latest trip to hospital and the flutterings of the Canaries.
This will not only ...
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| A traveller's tales |
By a Wayfarer
1 The Journey of a Lifetime
“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive” - so reads the inscription on a magnificent sundial on the wall of a house at the lower end of Austin Street, the former home of H. G. Ibberson ARIBA - one of the chief architects of our town. This is Ibberson’s own adaptation of the lines by Robert Louis Stevenson - “to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.” The point is t...
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| Invitation | Hunstanton Lions Club would like to invite all our Senior Citizens to a special “Turkey & Tinsel” Christmas Lunch the week commencing December 7, 2009.
All senior citizens living in Hunstanton and all the surrounding villages are welcome. This traditional Christmas Lunch will be held in The Green Lodge Restaurant in Hunstanton and consist of three courses.
The charge will be £3.00 per head with Hunstanton Lions subsidising the balance.
For further information please call Ian ...
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| Hunstanton lions club |
On Saturday September 12th we held a very successful “Race Night” with the Naval Association in Old Hunstanton Social Club enabling both clubs to boost their funds. Around eighty people attended and some went home rather poorer than when they arrived !. Anyway thank you for attending.
The raffle for the ladies & gentlemen's bicycles is now closed and we will be publishing the name of the lucky winner in next months Newsletter. Keep you eyes open for details of our n...
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| The religious census, pews, ritualism |
AND A DISTRUBANCE AT ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL
By Jim Welham
The religious census of Sunday 30th March 1851 was an attempt to count the number of attendances at each service in every place of worship in England, and the extent of the seating provided.
The upper and middle class Victorians needed information about the emergence of various protestant nonconformist societies, new sects such as the Mormons, and the rapid expansion of Roman Catholicism. Norfolk was...
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| Girlguiding luanch cenetenary celebrations |
By Dawn Davies
Smithdon and Brothercross District Launch Party
80 Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Adult volunteers from Girlguiding gathered at the Hunstanton Town Hall for an afternoon of craft and songs. Hunstanton Mayor Christine Earnshaw and Girlguiding Norfolk County Commissioner Helen Green also attended and- got involved with all of the activities and met many of the local members and spoke to them about why they enjoy being involved with guiding.
Susanne Durston Smithdon and Brot...
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| Celebrations at Smithdon | By Veronica Welham
Smithdon High School recorded its highest ever examination results this year.
At A Level the overall pass rate rose by 2% to 96%. The precentage of students gaining A, B or C grades equalled the school's previous best of 61% and the average point score rose significantly by more than 20 points to 599. Alex Peach gained 4 A grades in Sciences and Maths and several other students recorded only A and B grades.
At GCSE the school broke the important psychological and a...
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| Your libra dog |
Balance. This is what Libra is all about, so get your dog a nice big ball and get him to jump on it until he can stay on the top (on his hind legs of course) and encourage him to bowl it along whilst still on top. He might make a go of tight-rope walking too. Being Libra, a nice outfit is encouraged – tutus for girls and tights and tops for boys – in purples and pinks. Libra dog won’t mind a bit of hair tinting and shaving either. The Americans go in for all that nonsense, and Li...
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| Your virgo dog | A bit of lighthearted astrology by Valerie Gordon
If I had a Virgo dog, it would probably have reminded me to do this page instead of forgetting all about it! Virgos like lists, you see, time-tables, schedules and so on. Of course, dogs can’t write lists – I know that, but he would have been nipping at my heels, dragging me over to the computer and doing all he could to indicate that I had forgotten something and eventually I would have slapped my hand to my head in realisation, and...
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| The ghost of harvest past | By Joe Parker, agricultural ‘expert’
By the time you read this, the final winnowings of the 2009 cereal harvest will be a fading memory, and the process of sowing next year’s crops will already be well underway. Although the much-maligned ‘barbeque summer’ was not as bad as the previous year, with its ceaseless torrents and flooded fields, harvest is always a tricky time for the farmer. To add insult to injury, this year the additional fuel cost of drying damp grain has coincide...
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| Little memories of a seaside childhood |
By Norman C.Whye
The little ruined and dilapidated remains of the church of Ringstead Parva, stands on lonely sentinel in a farm field, and can be seen if glancing to the right when going up the Redgate Hill, or at a distance when biking down to the quiet, peaceful site of Ringstead Downs.
This, and other remains of previous dwelling sites are usually a magnet for the attentions of people, especially young boys, who imagine that the ruins contain the resting places of mediaeval knights...
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| Midnight encounter with a rocking chair | It was my father who introduced me to poetry. He especially loved the comic ones and knew many by heart, including some by his favourite poet, Thomas Hood: ‘Ben Battle was a soldier bold,/ And used to war’s alarms./ But a cannon ball took off his legs,/ So he laid down his arms...’ and so forth. He would recite these rhymes in his melodious baritone at the least provocation, using them as bedtime stories to soothe my sister and me off to sleep. One of his favourites was titled Midnight E...
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| Letters to the editor |
DANGEROUS JUNCTION
I noted with interest that a Hunstanton road junction has recently been labelled one of the most dangerous in Norfolk. Indeed the crossroads at the junction of Sandringham road and Park road has been the site of a recent number of nasty collisions.
My understanding of the matter is that people using Park Road approach Sandringham Road without realising that they are on the minor road. The very nature of the junction tends to mislead the casual driver. When you drive to...
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| Lettuce from America |
Matters tonsorial in the Land of the Free
By Clive Jones
One of the more intimidating aspects of living in a new place is finding the right people to do all that necessary highly-personal body-maintenance stuff.
We found a good dentist easily enough, and a doctor after a bit of a hunt round. It was the haircutting that gave me problems. Back home, some years ago, I had found someone who did my hair just as I liked it (at The Studio in KL, since you ask), and I’d stuck with them ‘t...
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| Save the children fund | We regret that this year we will not be holding a Christmas Fair at Brancaster Staithe Sailing Club. We thank you for all your support at this event in the past and hope to see you at other fund raising events we will be organising in the future
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| The St Edmund Harriers | By John Smith
The name “Hunstanton St. Edmund” may have been changed in 1893 but the name and emblem of St. Edmund has remained inextricably linked with the town through its religious links with both the Protestant and Catholic Churches. However, the name of St. Edmund has also been used in the past for many other purposes.
Around the turn of the 20th Century there existed a St. Edmund Club which met in the Esplanade Hall which was situated on the North Prome...
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| Pride of Norfolk award for Lisa Powell |
Hunstanton Town Clerk Lisa Powell was named as the runner up in the EDP Pride of Norfolk Awards for Clerk of the Year competition. The panel of judges were particularly impressed with her dedication to both the Council and the Town of Hunstanton and she was presented with her award at a ceremony at County Hall in September
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| Serenity goes mobile | By Debra Buckby
Some of our clients have asked whether it would be possible to offer a mobile reflexology service to those residents of Hunstanton that are less mobile. We have listened ( thankyou Eva!) and are pleased to offer a mobile service on a Wednesday each week.
If you would like advice or further information about this service please do not hesitate to contact us on 01485 535321. Reflexology can be a very effective treatment for a wide range of health i...
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| Music, food for the ears | By Michael Prince of Chives
I’m waiting for my good lady to finish work and it’s very late. ‘What a good time to write the newsletter article’ I thought. There’s one problem though.... I’m having ‘writer’s block’. I don’t have a clue what to write about. That’s when I heard the music playing over the stereo system; I quite like it. It’s by Don Mclean apparently. It reminds me of my love affair with music. We go back quite a long way. I love music; I’ve always got...
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| A forgotten gem |
By Robin Sainty
Before getting into this month's subject, I think it's worth pointing out that the doom mongers who predicted a double dip recession seem to have got it wrong and so far the recovery in investment markets has pretty much followed the timescale that I predicted in earlier columns.
Germany, France and Japan have all emerged from recession in the last quarter and the US looks likely to do so in the next quarter, although the UK economy, while improving, is still a little b...
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| Hunstanton wartime memories of a small boy | By Kingsley Pearce
I thought it might be interesting to some local people to learn of the wartime memories of a small boy. Mention has been made in the past of the form of some wartime coastal defences. My recollection of those defences being as follows (i) a minefield on Old Hunstanton beach, with the mines being safely removed at the end of the war, assisted by the fact that plans of the mine field were still in existence.(ii) small steel half sphere shaped machine gun cupolas sit...
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| False self-employment in the construction |
By Liz Wilcock ACCA
The Government remains committed to addressing “false” self-employment in the Construction Industry.
Intro
Recently, just as we had all got used to the Construction Industry Scheme [CIS] methods and procedures, the Government are planning the release of new legislation concerning the employment status of “sub-contract” workers.
The Facts (the boring bit!....please stick with me!)
On 20 July 2009, a consultation paper was issued entitled “False self-employ...
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| Hunstantonto catholic parish |
Church of Our L:ady and St Edmund, Sandringham Road, with St Cecilia’s, Dersingham
August 23rd was a great day of celebration in the parish as three young members of the Church made their first Holy Communion. This is a very important event in their developing relationship with Jesus and the members of the parish send Jonny, Kirsty and Ursula our love and congratulations as well as our assurance of our prayers for them.
At the beginning of September, a number of parishioners joine...
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| Organ concerts at St Mary's | Mick Mossendew (Organist)
The three Organ Recitals during August were very well attended and the standard of playing was very high. The three recitalists, David Dunnett, David Ivory and Dr. Roy Massey provided varied programmes which included ‘The flight of the Bumble-Bee’by Rimsky-Korsakov, ‘The Dancing Years’by Ivor Novello, and ‘Three pieces for a musical clock’ by Haydn. Once again it was disappointing to see so few people from the Saxon Shore Benefice but hopefully this situa...
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| Rev Dsvid J Hulse |
Minister of Union Church
Recently I was talking to a good friend about the power of nostalgia, remembering events that have moulded our lives. As young people our eyes are firmly fixed on the future, hoping and dreaming of what we might be. The middle years find many occupied with providing for families and careers, but as life goes on we have more time to reminisce.
At the moment my wife and I are enjoying a holiday. The scenery and wild life in Pembrokeshire is a wonderful b...
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| More St Edmund's news | By Max Dolby
THE GIFT OF LOVE
Thank you to all those who contributed to the two performances of The Gift of Love: Hunstanton’s cycle of Mystery Plays which were presented in St Edmund’s church in July. In addition to the wonderful performers, we had so much help with costumes, scenery, props, publicity, sound equipment and encouragement. Well done every body.
When will it happen again?
VISITING CHOIRS AT ST. EDMUND’S
The Stamford Singers will give a concert at 7pm. on Saturday...
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| St Edmund's parish church | By Father John, Vicar
For the time-being CrossBeat has ceased publication, due to a variety of reasons. We at St Edmund’s thank Elaine for her offer of publicising events through the Hunstanton News Letter. Fr Michael Sellors, my predecessor, began CrossBeat which would go into every house of the 2 parishes within the benefice of Hunstanton St Edmund and Ringstead. His idea was to let everyone know what went on in the 2 parishes. The Church of England, being the established church is a ...
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| Hunstanton acheives anglia in bloom gold award |
All the planning and hard work over the past year has been rewarded with a magnificent Gold Award for Hunstanton in the Anglia in Bloom Competition, and being named the best coastal resort in the up to 35,000 population category is the icing on the cake!
So many people have taken part in this venture and the gardens in Hunstanton, both public and private, have looked truly beautiful all year attracting visitors from far and wide. The Council gardening team and a...
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| Hunstanton wartime memories of a small boy | By Kingsley Pearce
I thought it might be interesting to some local people to learn of the wartime memories of a small boy. Mention has been made in the past of the form of some wartime coastal defences. My recollection of those defences being as follows (i) a minefield on Old Hunstanton beach, with the mines being safely removed at the end of the war, assisted by the fact that plans of the mine field were still in existence.(ii) small steel half sphere shaped machine gun cupolas sit...
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