The Official Sheringham Town Guide 2019/2020 Local Services Recreation Town Map Attractions Start collecting points to spend at any of our Hotels. Points you collect Join our Loyalty convert in to £ which can be spent on food, drink or a hotel stay. Scheme today! Terms and conditions apply. Welcto The Official Sherionghamm Towne Guide 2019/20 © Falcon Publications Contents The Official Sheringham Town Guide 2019/20 has been designed, produced and published by Falcon Publications on behalf of A Welcome from the Mayor p5 Sheringham Town Council. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the publishers and Diary of Annual Events p6-7 copyright holders. Every effort has been taken to ensure that the contents of this guide Council Information p9 are accurate, but Falcon Publications cannot be held responsible for errors or omissions. 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Sheringham Museum p15 The North Norfolk Railway p17 Falcon Publications DBH 21 Primary Education p19 Diss Business Park Hopper Way Secondary Education p21 Diss Complex-Needs Education p23 Norfolk, IP22 4GT Sheringham Town Map p24/25 Editor: Sarah Veness, 01379 773348 Health and Welfare p27 Advertising: Gary Enderby, 01379 773347 Email: [email protected] The Arts in Sheringham p29 www.falconpublications.co.uk Lifeboats p31 Design & Artwork: Ian Foster, Copy Concept Lifeguards p33 Email: [email protected] Cover photograph and inside images by kind permission of Places of Worship p35, p37 Alan Palmer Clubs and Societies p39-41 Directory of Advertisers p44-45 | 3 Enjoying the 1940s weekend 4 | Welcome to Sheringham The town has developed from a small fishing village to the vibrant seaside attraction that you are now living in or visiting. There are many ways that you can be entertained and we hope that you will enjoy your stay, however long you are here. The beaches are glorious with Blue flag status. Visit the Little Theatre, where we have a unique opportunity to see a range of excellent shows including summer repertory performances as well as a wonderful pantomime. Our Museum is magnificent with items for all ages to be engaged with. Don’t forget to use the app to find the Dinosaurs in the Deep History Initiative. Keep an eye open for exhibitions taking place during the year. Whatever food you might fancy, there will be somewhere for you to sample. We have something for everyone with several opportunities to enjoy tapas platters with a cool refreshing drink on sunny evenings. What about a game of crazy golf or even the real thing with one of the country’s first class golf links here? There’s something for everyone in Sheringham! Look inside this brochure to ensure that you make the most of our town. Residents and visitors alike feel they are on holiday all year round, so have a lovely time and enjoy yourselves. Cllr Madeleine Ashcroft Mayor of Sheringham | 5 Sheringham’s Annual Events There are many events in Sheringham throughout the year. Here are a few May - Crab & Lobster Festival highlights: June - Sheringham Classic Car & Bike January 1st - New Year’s Day Dip Show February - Viking Festival July - Potty Morris Festival April - Easter Bonnet Parade July - Opening of the Little Theatre Season 6 | July/ August - Carnival Events including October - Cromer & Sheringham Art & Raft Race, Parade and Street Races Literary Festival August - RNLI Lifeboat Day November - Christmas Lights Switch-On September - NNR 1940s weekend December - Santa Specials (NNR) October - Halloween (NNR) To find out more details and specific dates for each year go to www.sheringhamcarnival.com ‘A Year in Sheringham’ Handbook is available with details of local event information for the year. You’ll find this in shops in the town, on the Sheringham Carnival stand at events or you can order one online at www.sheringhamcarnival.com | 7 The Funky Mackerel Cafe An independent family run business serving probably the best bacon sandwiches and delicious & luxurious flapjacks in North Norfolk. Very dog friendly Open all year round 8 Station Approach, Sheringham NR26 8RA Tel: 07498 045895 www.funkymacs.co.uk 8 | Council Information Sheringham Town Council Sheringham Community Centre Holway Road Sheringham North Norfolk District Council Norfolk Council Offices NR26 8NP Holt Road Town Clerk: Denise Medler Cromer Deputy Town Clerk: Kelly Cooper Norfolk, NR27 9EN Main telephone: 01263 822213 Opening times: Monday, Tuesday & Thursday - 8.30am-5pm, Wednesday - 10am-5pm, [email protected] Friday - 8.30am-4.30pm website: sheringhamtowncouncil.gov.uk Tel: 01263 513811 Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday Website: www.north-norfolk.gov.uk 9.30am-12.30pm Responsibilities include benefits, council tax collections, Sheringham Town Council’s Administrator will be environment and waste, housing, planning & design, more than happy to answer any queries you may have. street cleaning and leisure facilities amongst others. To speak with the Clerk or Deputy Clerk, please call to make an appointment. Norfolk County Council Responsibilities include: running Sheringham County Hall Community Centre which is available for regular or Martineau Lane one-off hire, Cemetery, Weybourne Road Allotments, Commons, Town Clock, War Memorial, a proportion Norwich, NR1 2DH of the Town’s streetlights and benches, bus shelters, Opening times: Monday to Friday 9am-5pm putting greens and grass verges. Tel: 0344 800 8020 (main switchboard) Website: www.norfolk.gov.uk Responsibilities include: Social Services, Trading Standards, Fire & Rescue, transport and education amongst others. | 9 Sheringham PD TAXIS Call Pete: 01263 825523 or 07990 505095 Local, National & Airport Transfers, 4/6/8 Passenger Vehicles, In Car Card Payments 10 | Sheringham’s History “History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of and arrow heads have been found on the beach with many the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, good examples of the flint knappers work being seen in and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days” Sheringham and other Norfolk Museums. The area now (Winston Churchill ) occupied by our town was wandered by nomadic hunter gatherers, following the herds of mammoths that gave food The story of Sheringham stretches back over many centuries and skins for tents and clothing. and is built around tales of ordinary folk who settled below the glacial moraine (the Cromer Ridge) left by the last Ice Age. Research by local historians points to an early settlement The fossil record of the area has pointed to a marshland once being that of Scira’s people. “Ham” is an Anglo Saxon word for inhabited by Mammoths, Wild Boar and Tigers to mention “small village”, so we have the ham of Scira’s people. Scira but a few species. David Barber, a local artist, has caught this being of Danish origin possibly being linked with the Danes period on the wall mural facing out to the North Sea, below who came to settle in this part of East Anglia in approximately the Two Lifeboats Hotel and The Crown Inn. Evidence in the 750AD. Evidence of the possibility of early Roman settlement form of fossilized bones has come out of the Cromer Forest was discovered in 1956, when a domestic kiln was discovered Bed, with an almost complete skeleton of a Mammoth being whilst excavating at the Upper Sheringham Council Depot. recovered in 1990 from near West Runton and other bones Greyware Roman pottery was recovered. from the cliffs below Beeston. Examples of flint Neolithic axes The Domesday Survey completed in 1086 is the first real | 11 mention of Sheringham. In the survey the settlement is recorded as Silingham and tells us that it was made up of a population of 28 (10 villagers, 12 smallholders, 5 slaves and 1 freeman.) The Survey also mentions a 4 acre meadow, woodlands, 100 pigs, a church and church lands. The Lord of the Manor in 1086 was William of Ecouis. The mention of a church is probably that of the wooden structure that is thought to stand on the site prior to that of the current one of All Saints, Upper Sheringham being erected about 1400. Records of the 17th and 18th centuries record storms that ripped into the cliffs taking chunks of land away (1789 and 1795). The storm of 1795 damaged land in front of the Crown Inn. Five years later in 1800 the Crown finally succumbed and crashed onto the beach. In the wake of the Industrial Revolution 1760 – 1830 when we saw the transition from hand production methods to that Railways had started to join towns and cities and the coast. of machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron From the 1840s a national railway network started to develop. production processes,the development and increased use of steam power, the development of machine tools and the rise It was on 16th June 1887 that the biggest factor in promoting of the factory system. Although this had no immediate impact growth in the town happened – the railway came to on Sheringham the foundations were being laid for a century Sheringham. Now there was a direct line to London (3 hours 13 of change and development in Sheringham, reflecting that minutes) which in its heyday had 64 trains a day passing in and which was happening in other parts of the country. In 1805 a out of the station. With this came the development of what had House of Industry, Workhouse, was built in Upper been arable land. The Upcher family sold blocks of land for Sheringham. This was followed in 1811 by the Enclosure building – The Sheringham Building Estate – which included Award. what we now know as Augusta Street; The Boulevard; North and South Streets; St Nicholas Place and Links Road to mention Just over 200 years ago, in 1812, the owner of the Manor of some.