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6 Hunstanton Town & Around March 2015 Tel: 01485 533422 email: editor@townandaround.net
A page from the Sage and Homefields Lane but they are Yarmouth called 'Carol Levis
okay now. Discoveries and one Sunday
Dick Melton A week or two back Turnstone Jimmy and a singer from
had a picture in the Lynn News of Hunstanton called Billy Mack both
Hi there, everyone has been so
pleased with the new lights along the last train leaving Hunstanton appeared on that show,
the footpath from Alexandra Road station at 22:05pm on the 3rd May unfortunately they were not good
to the Tesco car park I thought that 1969. I can remember this evening enough but they still kept
the best way to start this month’s very well as at the time I lived at no performing at the Kit-Kat.
Town and Around would be to 1 Seagate (Maudetta) right near the I wrote about the mineral water
write a short poem about them. railway line and next to the old iron bottling plants in Hunstanton and I
There is a lovely footpath that goes footbridge. had a very nice letter from a Mrs.
to the Tesco store As I said this train left Barnes from Heacham telling me
It has been there for one hundred Hunstanton station at 22:05pm that her late father, Mr. Charlie Lee
years or more 1932 the same year as the boating with 250 passengers. Aboard the was the manager of Winloves
Two years ago the lights went out lake was built. In or around about driver was Eddie Ashton and two grocers and off-licence for forty
and made it dark and grey 1950 it was closed down as a people hung wreaths on the front of years. Their shop and premises
People used a torch at night to find through road and made into a car the engine they were a Mr. Cogar were at the northern end of
their darkened way park, then in 1958 when the from South Wootton and Mr. Crescent Road where the Crusty
Some people stumbled or fell into fairground was extended to take in Michael Thomas from Hunstanton Loaf bakery is today. Mrs. Barnes
the hedge Leache's field the car park was who at the time was chairman of told me that Winloves did not bottle
When snow lay on the ground closed and access to the road was Hunstanton council. Two railway mineral waters but they did bottle
others used a sledge from the Kit-Kat end only for the transport police were in attendance Guinness and Worthington 'E', Mrs.
When it was icy down on your bum people who lived on the west end at the time and they were going to Barnes also told me that during the
you went side of Seagate Road . arrest Mr. Cogar and Mr. Thomas war years solders that were billeted
Then you had to guess which way When the Sea Life was for trespassing on the track to hang nearby used to go into the stores in
your shopping was sent constructed in 1989 the fairground the wreaths on the engine but due the evening to operate the bottle
Then along came two men with end of this road was reopened for to the amount of people there they washing plant.
pick axe and spade the residents of Seagate Road and thought better of it. I wonder how many people can
No more cuts or bruises, no more the Kit-Kat end was closed off with Now a little story from a friend remember Winloves stores? When
need for first aid a small wall and bollards; this has of mine who was a builder, he was we lived in Seagate Winloves was
The lights are on, a job well done, not been used as a road for through asked to paint the back end of a our nearest shop.
the brightest path in town traffic since 1950. Why this road house with white masonry paint, he When I was a lad there was
People come to look at them from has been resurfaced I do not know said to the house owner: “it looks many of these small shops scattered
all the way around. but what ever the reason it looks a like a good drop of stuff where did around the town as well as
I was having a ride around the lot smarter and the surface is much you get it?” He said: “I went to a Winloves, Mr. Oakley had a
town on my bike one morning as I smoother to bike along. sale of surplus council equipment grocers shop on the corner of
usually do when I could hear a lot Whilst on the subject of roads it and materials.” It turned out to be Southend Road and Westgate when
of machinery type noise coming would be nice to see something the same sort of paint that is used the Chatsworth Road was built in
from the Seagate Road area of done to Alexandra Road; the road for road markings, being semi the late fifties there was a small
town, I changed up a gear and went from Crescent Road to the reflective. A few weeks before the shop called 'Chatsworth Stores' on
to investigate. You can imagine my Cemetery, it must be the roughest lighthouse had been painted, what the corner of Chatsworth and
surprise when I came across a gang road in town with all its pot holes with all the planes about it was a Waveney Roads.
of men and machinery resurfacing and mud. Since Tesco’s was built good job that it had not been used At one time there was a shop and
the old concrete road between more than 500 pedestrians use this on there. post office by the lighthouse in
Seagate Road gardens and the Sea road every day it is even rougher In the Eastern Daily Press a King’s Road, opposite the Glebe
Life Centre (boating lake). than Downs Road. I realise that it week or two back there was a bit School on the Cromer Road was
This road was constructed in is unadopted but so was Park Road about the death of Ronny Ronald another small grocers called
the singer and whistler who shot to 'Ravens', in Church Street were two
fame in the early fifties by shops: 'Mace Stores' and Carr's
DOMESTIC whistling the tune of 'if I were a there was also a small shop and
blackbird' which sold over one cafe in the pit up the northern
APPLIANCE million copies. We had a chap live corner of where the Tesco store is
in Hunstanton by the name of today.
REPAIRS Jimmy Rafferty who was also a Well we have had a trip round
very good whistler and in the fifties the town and covered a few
A family business for over 30 years and sixties you would hear him subjects so I will leave you with a
most nights on the stage at the Kit- well known Norfolk saying if hope
Same day/next day visit Kat whistling his two favourite you can understand it! Bor du yow
Call: 01553 768557 / 842319 tunes which were 'if I were a du, as your old father used to du, ou
blackbird' and wouldn't du as yew du du.
Mobile: 07775 858255 'In a monastery garden. Around All the best to you all, keep on a
that time Carol Levis had a show eating that rabbit stew it don't half
E mail:dkrepairs@tiscali.co.uk on a Sunday in the summer at Great keep the cold out.