The Gem of The Norfolk Coast

I thought I'd start my blog with a picture of Henry Blogg, hero of Cromer - which is known as The Gem of The Norfolk coast. Lovely place, with a nice pier, which I saw on telly last night. On the end of the pier, Colm Meany was trying to shoot Steve Coogan. Of course, I was watching the film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. (Very funny).

The pier looks like this:

When we go to Cromer, apart from the carpark, the pier is the first thing we see, as we sit and eat chips and ice-cream, looking down from the prom, at the pier. It's a family tradition, now!

Up the road from Cromer, is Overstrand, a little place by the sea known as 'the village of millionaires', as it was considered a very posh place to take your holidays- and to live, by the well heeled at the end of the 19th century.

Just thought you'd like to see a picture of a Boulton-Paul Overstrand, a military aeroplane built in the thirties.

Clement Scott a Victorian poet and theatre critic coined the term 'Poppyland', for the section of the N. Norfolk coast from Sheringham to Mundesley. 

It was not many years after that poppies would be forever associated with World War 1,  Not something that Clement Scott foresaw, I suppose.

There is so much more I could add about Norfolk; but perhaps I'll save that for another time.  

I hope I have not infringed anyone's copyright with the pictures- wasn't my intention.