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North Norfolk Beaches Praised for Water Quality

09/05/2024 David Hobart Comments 0 Comment

Cromer Beach North Norfolk’s beaches have performed well in a new comparison of water cleanliness for summer swimming. UK travel site Holiday Park Guru analysed Environment Agency summer water quality data from hundreds of beaches. There are seven water testing areas in North Norfolk, and all are ranked as either ‘excellent’ (three stars) or ‘good’ (two stars). The three-star resorts are Sheringham, Cromer, West Runton, and East Runton, while the two-star resorts are Wells-next-the-Sea, Mundesley, and Sea Palling. Overall, though, Norfolk…

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The Big Freeze of 1962/63

07/03/2021 David Hobart Comments 0 Comment

A North Norfolk Road during the ‘big freeze’. For many people of my generation, 1962 will be memorable for the ‘big freeze’; however, it was quite a trying year in other ways. I was still at school in 1962 and can remember the anxiety caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis that brought the USSR and the US to the brink of nuclear war. In October, that political crisis was resolved to everyone’s relief, only to be followed by the severe…

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Instromet Weather Systems Ltd

18/01/2020 David Hobart Comments 2 Comments

Instromet Weather Systems Ltd is a long-established supplier of British made, quality weather monitoring and weather activation equipment now based in North Norfolk. Originally formed in Broadstairs, Kent in the mid-nineteen eighties as R & D Electronics (then R & D Instromet), the business was founded by a husband and wife team with the weather stations being developed in their home-based workshop. The business expanded with the help of part-time staff, a move into industrial weather activation equipment such as…

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Julian Calverley – ‘A journey into Landscape’

23/08/2016 David Hobart Comments 0 Comment

A video featuring a talk by the accomplished commercial photographer Julian Calverley. He reveals some of the tricks of the trade used in his commercial work and then talks about his passion for landscape photography.

Why I have returned to Film Photography

16/04/2016 David Hobart Comments 2 Comments

After persevering with digital photography for a few years I have gone back to the world of film photography.

Equipping your North Norfolk Holiday Home

01/01/2016 David Hobart Comments 0 Comment

If you are having to furnish or equip a holiday home in Cromer, Sheringham, Blakeney or another of North Norfolk’s lovely towns or villages, why not put your philanthropy hat on and go online to a fair trade website to source your products. One such that retails fair trade homeware and gifts is called Nkuku. The lifestyle and home products are unique and are produced in an eco friendly way by artisans based in India. The artisans, using skills passed…

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