THE CROMER TIMES

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Kate Bradbury, award-winning author and journalist specialising in wildlife gardening, will be heading a panel with Jerry Kinsley, senior lecturer in Wildlife and Conservation at Easton College and chaired by Nick Acheson, of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust and Trustee of the Felbeck Trust

This evening will offer the opportunity to learn how to make a garden “wildlife friendly” Questions can be submitted in person when purchasing a ticket, or on the website cromergreenspaces.wordpress.com/events/

Wildlife Gardener ’s Question Time Friday 24th March, Cromer Community Hall, Garden Street 7-9pm Doors open at 6pm Tickets

£10 include refreshments, available from Constance & Thyme, Garden Street, Cromer.

Cromer & Sheringham Probus Club

On Tuesday 7 February, after a tasty lunch, the award-winning publisher Peter Stibbons gave a talk on aspects of Cromer ’s history He first took us back 8,000 years ago, when Doggerland, an area of land that connected Britain to continental Europe and containing large areas of Norfolk, was devastated by a great tsunami and submerged beneath the North Sea, causing Cromer to become a coastal area

Next, Peter told us about the discovery of 600,000-year-old mammoth bones at the base of the cliffs in the Cromer Forest Bed at West Runton in 1990, which led to a full-scale excavation in 1995 We then experienced a huge jump in time as Peter explained that the name ‘Cromer ’ does not appear until the thirteenth century, the area having previously been known as ‘Shipden’.

Cromer became a seaside resort in the early 1800s, some of the wealthy Norwich banking families making it their summer home The great storm of 1836 prompted the decision to build the first promenade in the 1840s The old jetty was washed away three times in the 1800s, eventually replaced by the late-Victorian pier we enjoy today The railway did not arrive until 1877 Much of Cromer Church today is essentially a Victorian reconstruction Peter displayed many pictures of Cromer, showing how the town had changed through the years.

On behalf of the 27 members present, our Chairman, John Rattle, thanked Peter for his fascinating talk. On 4 April Paul Rundle will speak to us about “Hitler ’s Spies in the UK” and on 2 May Wally Webb’s talk will be entitled “On the Radio” More information about the club can be seen on our website at www candsprobus club or you can call Dave Vickery on 01263 824306

A Ray of Hope for Earthquake Victims

Sheringham photographer, Chris Taylor, captured the freezing mist of dawn rolling off the land at Cromer which has proved to be a big hit online

Following enquiries to purchase prints Chris has decided to donate 50% of any sales of the print to the Red Cross Turkey-Syria

Earthquake appeal

The image was taken using a drone, at the maximum 120m altitude at around 7:30am on Valentine’s Day, as the sun rose and the icy cold mist rolled off the land, obscuring much of Cromer apart from the pier & the church tower Since it was Valentine’s Day it seems appropriate that the image should be used to spread some love and help those suffering the devastating effects of the earthquake in Turkey

"I had been up since 3am, unable to sleep, so after getting some work done, at around 6am (still dark and 2°C outside, I decided to take the drone over to Cromer for sunrise to see what I could get I hadn’t expected the rolling fog and from ground level the visibility was very poor but up in the air the drone captured a different view, one which has captured people’s imagination online with some lovely comments and requests for prints "

Prints start at £20 for a 12 x 8-inch print and are proving popular The prints can be ordered by heading to my blog at www.christaylorphoto.co.uk/blog

(I’m offering Cromer & Sheringham residents a postage refund if they wanted to collect the prints from me in Sheringham)

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