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Post by gyro on Apr 11, 2009 21:19:49 GMT
View from the beach. It's normally this side of the pier that we take the kids, and where I go kayak surfing. Birds eye view; we live in the woods in the top left of the picture. From the pier; one of the nicest bits of town .... A typical summer's day ... The church where our son was christened.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2009 21:22:09 GMT
That looks quite nice. What is the name of this town?
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Post by gyro on Apr 11, 2009 21:27:41 GMT
The clue is on the second photo .....
(ignore the '(c)' )
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2009 21:29:14 GMT
Good clue.
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Post by gyro on Apr 11, 2009 21:32:43 GMT
You want my postcode and inside leg measurement ?
To be fair, the town is quite nice. It's many of the people that suck.
But I have to be grateful for having the sea on my doorstep. It was a fairly elemental part of my childhood, and glad to relive that with my kids. Plus the availability of the waves help. Some surfers travel as much as 3 or 4 hours to come here.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 12, 2009 4:40:16 GMT
WOW, Gyro -- what a beautiful town! I love that aerial view, where you can't tell what century it is. What is on the side of that wooded hill? Also, of what is the church constructed -- is that brick?
Your kids are lucky to be growing up in such a pretty setting. Is the town extremely old?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2009 10:44:14 GMT
What a beautiful place G. I too grew up by the sea and not a day goes by that I don't reflect upon that somehow. When I first moved here to Louisiana and went to the Gulf in Mississippi for the first time I nearly cried. One had to walk out into the water for a half a mile to be in only waist deep water. The Gulf in Alabama and Florida much nicer.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2009 14:20:50 GMT
That's why I never went to the beach when I was growing up, casimira. And it's a manmade problem since the beach in Mississippi is artificial. All of that sand was pumped in during the 1940's and it just sits there.
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Post by gyro on Apr 12, 2009 21:07:37 GMT
Biscuit, not entirely sure how old it is, but it's at least 500 or so yrs old. Ironically enough, we were in the map room of Palacio Veccio in Firenze, and a map of Britain had Cromer on it.
The church is brick of sort I guess, but I'm pretty sure there's some flint in there too. One of the best flint knappers in the country (who comes down to the museum you can se on the left of that pic) reckons the best flint you can get is on Cromer and East Runton beach.
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Post by gyro on Apr 12, 2009 21:09:43 GMT
Oh, and the wooded hill, which I presume is the one on the top left, contains the hall we live at, and the road out of the town inland. We have deer and pheasants in the woods, and plenty of bats buzz you at the right time of night.
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Post by spindrift on Apr 12, 2009 21:50:56 GMT
I had no idea that Cromer was so lovely. And you have a Pier! I come from a seaside town in Somerset that has two piers (one burned down recently)...
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Post by gyro on Apr 12, 2009 21:59:04 GMT
Yeah, it can be lovely. It can also be a right shit hole.
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Post by BigIain on Apr 18, 2009 14:51:08 GMT
Nice OP mate, I am going to do an Edinburgh one when I get back down South from here. Cromer looks pretty good actually. Thanks for sharing.
Writeon is a Weston beauty.... and often wears her "kiss-me-quick" straw boater when no-one is looking!
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Post by bazfaz on Apr 18, 2009 15:43:49 GMT
No point in wearing a Kiss-me-quick boater if she's all alone.
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Post by gyro on Apr 18, 2009 21:16:45 GMT
My daughter and Niece-In-Law this morning, on the beach again ....
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Post by gyro on Apr 18, 2009 21:23:03 GMT
And, where we live. Although, in fairness, our bit, to the right of the picture, adjoining the hall, can't really be seen :
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2009 21:40:35 GMT
The stables?
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Post by gyro on Apr 18, 2009 21:41:52 GMT
Close. Our courtyard is next to the (still functioning) stables. We live in what used to be the Female Servants Quarters to the hall.
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Post by Jazz on Apr 19, 2009 13:32:25 GMT
Cromer's lovely, I'd go there! The pier! You actually live in part of a castle? How old is it? Even though you live in the female 'servants' quarters', this is probably wonderful as it is part of the original castle design. Your daughter is sweet and beautiful...a good shot of her and her artwork.
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Post by spindrift on Apr 19, 2009 15:41:07 GMT
Baz - how do you know that I'm always alone? (Clue - I'm not).
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Post by lola on Apr 19, 2009 15:49:19 GMT
Lovely, gyro. Your daughter has a not-surprising fun and mischievous look.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2009 16:06:22 GMT
I think she is savouring the idea of the day she will graduate from chalk to spray paint.
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Post by spindrift on Apr 19, 2009 17:47:44 GMT
Gyro - she is very pretty.
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Post by gyro on Apr 19, 2009 19:37:05 GMT
Jazz, it's not a castle, but a Hall (built around 1825, I think). Although it is the last surviving privately owned Gothic Revival style hall in the country, I think. And this - a dog-like gargoyle on part of the bell tower - alledgedly inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write The Hound Of The Baskervilles when he stayed there :
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2009 0:14:29 GMT
Your town is so beautiful and interesting, Gyro. Have you ever found any old flint implements?
Also, *clears throat* do you have a guest room?
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Post by hwinpp on Apr 28, 2009 7:17:54 GMT
Looks very nice, is it on the Channel?
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Post by gyro on Apr 28, 2009 11:50:34 GMT
No, it's on the North Sea, North Norfolk Coast.
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Post by gyro on May 10, 2009 19:55:30 GMT
I was talking to an American last night on the pier. He comes here as he has a holiday home. He's lived mainly in Milwauke and Wisconsoin (I think), and now currently resides on Switzerland. He said he much prefers it here as the people are more friendly and look you in the eye when they talk to you. Which was a surprise to me.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 10, 2009 21:12:30 GMT
Interesting ~~ did he mean friendlier in general, or more so than in Switzerland? Why were you surprised?
I just read a Rose Tremain novel, "The Colour", that mentioned Cromer. A family immigrates to New Zealand @1860 and the unhappy mother-in-law thinks how much nicer Cromer was than Christchurch. The family's home in England was supposed to be in Parton Magna -- is there really such a place? (good novel, incidentally)
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Post by gyro on May 11, 2009 5:20:19 GMT
I think he meant compared to Switzerland. Although obviously, there's no comparison when talking of the hellhole that is the USA ...
There are plenty of Magna's in the Midlands, so it is possible. Don't know of a Parton Magna myself.
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