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6 Hunstanton Town & Around March 2014 Tel: 01485 533422 email: editor@townandaround.net
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Home Instead Senior Care is looking for CAREgivers to work with
their growing number of clients in Heacham, Hunstanton and the
surrounding villages. Ideally you will be experienced (although
training and support is given), drive and have your own car and have
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were many Zeppelin raids over in 1918. After that he went on to
Half a page from the Sage West Norfolk. One such raid help his family at Birds Flour
Mill in the town of Downham
happened over Dersingham and
Dick Melton Sandringham in September 1916 Market.
whilst Queen Alexandra was in Just one more bit of history up
This year being the 100th residence at Sandringham, a until 1918 the North Sea was
anniversary of the start of the bomb was dropped on a house up called the German Ocean.
First World War, The Great War) Dodds Hill. The next day the It was very nice to see a picture
I thought I would write a bit Queen herself went to see the of the southern end of town on
about how it affected the people damage, also a bomb was the cover of the l00th issue of the
who lived in Hunstanton and dropped on Dersingham Fen. Hunstanton Town and Around.
West Norfolk at that time. This bomb made a very large A bit of information for all
On the morning of the 19th of crater which later on in time was those people who never visit our
January 1915 three Zeppelin's left made into a duck decoy for the end of town, except to shop at
Germany to drop their bombs royal family to use and it is still Tesco's; work has started on
along the east coast of England, there today. building the new houses on the
one of these developed engine Lighting restrictions were so Sheep Field.
trouble and had to return to its making a large crater in a field strict during these Zeppelin raids
base at Fuhlsbuttel, another one and blowing out twenty of the that it was an offence to strike a
headed towards Great Yarmouth church's windows, it then passed match in the street, by the end of MAN AND A VAN
and the third one headed west over Dersingham but it dropped 1915 these stringent lighting
along the coast to Hunstanton. By no bombs. The Zeppelin then orders led to 1,028 summonses LIGHT REMOVALS
the time it got to Hunstanton it continued on to Kings Lynn for this offence and £379 had ANYTHING
had already dropped four bombs; dropping seven bombs on the been collected in fines. CONSIDERED
two at Sheringham, one at town in various locations, During the Great War 1914-
Brancaster, and another on the including the Walks and 1918, sixty two auxiliary war GOOD RATES
Green at Thornham. Tennyson Avenue where a hospitals were set up in Norfolk HUNSTANTON AND
The fifth bomb landed but did number of houses were damaged to treat servicemen who were SURROUNDING AREA
not explode in a field near the and many more had their wounded or gassed. In our area
Hunstanton Lighthouse, the windows blown out including there was one at Thornham and TEL: 07860 733761
Zeppelin then continued on its Albert Avenue where many three in Hunstanton. The one at OR: 07547 688797
flight to Kings Lynn dropping a people were trapped in their Cliff House treated 440 patients, FOR A FAST
bomb near to Snettisham Church homes, Bentinck Street where a
869 patients were treated in the AND FRIENDLY SERVICE