EAW050930 ENGLAND (1953). The Pier, Railway Station and town centre, Hunstanton, 1953

The Kit Kat

Lynfield House School

The White House -Marie Pacey and Michael Pacey

The Homestead and surrounding perennial gardens, and walled vegetable gardens.

The pier is shown before its modification of the film "All at Sea" first called Barnacle Bill" The pier was a popular fishing point in the winter.

Hunstanton school under construction. For a comment on the school ref. Kynaston, D,Family Britain, 1951-1957 (Tales of a New Jerusalem).

The Capitol cinema, later the Princess Theatre.

Church of St Edmund Grade 2 listed - English Heritage Building ID: 221216 Previously referred to as St Edmunds Chapel Parish church of New Hunstanton. 1865-1869 north aisle 1879, by Frederick Preedy, architect of Worcester, cousin of the Le Stranges, at a cost of £3,700. South porch flint, addition of c.1914.

Cross (PE36 6BQ) Listed Grade 2 - English Heritage Building ID: 221213 Base and shaft of cross. Medieval. Carstone and Yorkstone. Stone base with shields, moulded shaft, 7 steps. Formerly in Old Hunstanton, removed here as part of development of New Hunstanton by the Le Stranges of Hunstanton Hall. - In 1846, Henry Styleman Le Strange decided to develop the area south of Old Hunstanton as a sea bathing resort. In 1846 Le Strange moved the ancient village cross from Old Hunstanton to this new site.

Golden Lion Hotel. (PE36 6BQ) Grade 2 listed- English Heritage Building ID: 221214 Hotel, formerly the Royal Hotel. C.1850, preceding the development of New Hunstanton by the Le Stranges of Hunstanton Hall. Probably by William Butterfield, the friend of Henry Le Strange and architect for New Hunstanton from 1862.

This has now been modified & is an amusement arcade, but nothing else of the pier exists.

Memorial to the residents of the South Beach who lost their lives in the great flood & tempest of 31st January 1953. The attached photo was taken on the 14th November 2013.

War Memorial. For more details on the memorial, see www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/Hunstanton.html. The attached photo was taken on the 14th November 2013.