I've been to Hunstanton a few times since I moved to Ely and its a very nice place to visit and go for a stroll. I already knew about the pier being lost but quite frankly, the new building looks terrible and out of place! Nice video though.....
I've only just found your video, thanks for posting, Hunstanton was our local sea side place for our holidays. We would travel by train from Peterborough and the first thing we would do was to enjoy tea at the Sandringham Hotel in their buttery, There was of couse a miniature steam train that ran along the pier. I have some nice memories.
I had no idea there was a steam train on the pier. Must have been a bit of a fire hazard given there is a lot of wooden structure to an old pier. Unfortunately in the time I've known Hunstanton it's only ever had that stub of the pier with the amusement arcade on it. I quite liked the old one wiith it's 60s and 70s design. Can't say I'm so keen on the new one though. Although I am pleased it's in exactly the same place and even looks like it could have a recreated pier atttached to it at some point in the future.
@@AndysShed a photo exists of me in summer 1961, and behind me is the little train, so I wonder what year they removed it, amazingly Hunstanton had 5 miniature lines and Skegness had 7 , not all at the same time and it is extremely difficult to find any information on those small railways
Hello Andy, thank you for your visit to Hunstanton. I have my own special memories of the place when I used to see someone who lived near Kings Lynn. Did you know that the pier at Hunstanton was used in an old Ealing film called All AT SEA, I think in the USA the film was called BARNICAL BILL. or was it the other way round ? The film was about a sea sick navy captain. I think it was the last film Ealing made. I been trying to find a copy of it on DVD, can anyone help ? Anyway, i wish Hunstanton still had it's pier and it's railway station. Thank you for making the video. 🙂👍
I have a feeling most of the Ealing comedy films have been released on home video, but I think it might have been on VHS. I've definitely seen that movie on TV as well, but it's a long time ago.
A nice little tour Andy - many thanks! I've never been to Hunstanton, but remember studying The Hunstanton Red Rock sequence on my uni geology course. Fascinating stuff... Look forward to your next great video!
I remember the pier and amusement arcade from when my parents used to bring me here as a boy. I somehow thought that that building wasn't what I remembered even though it was in the right place.
The new building is a bit strange. They've designed it like it should be attached to a pier, even though there has never been a pier joined onto it. There is a video of the fire that destroyed the original on here somewhere.
Yes, the pier went in January 1978, then the fire in 2001 destroyed the remaining building, I think there was 2 other fires in 1939? And 1957, I think a tiny piece of concrete exists of the old pier but the thing they have now does not deserve to be called a pier, a small piece of wooden buffer stop exists in the car park but I heard some recent alterations may mean that has gone now, the miniature train on the pier did not seem to last long and gone sometime after 1961, there was a total of 5 miniature railways in Hunstanton but its extremely difficult to find any information on them except one ran from the the fairground is now.
I was born in Wisbech, but lived in Upwell and it's Hunstun, not Hunstanton, though it's spelt that way. Just like it's Snetson not Snetisham. Must keep those old pronouncements alive and kicking. I spent many summers Cocking with my dad & younger brothers, while mum sunbathed, in both places along thier very wide beaches.
I visited Hunstanton almost every sunday 1959 to 2020 , only missing if I was doing something else, mainly I do not go now to save money on petrol etc...
The car park I walk across in the video definitely was part of the station complex. The bit of track and signal may have been moved slightly for display purposes.
I'm not understanding how it can be the wrong car park when there is track, a signal and the original coal office still there. I can see how the signal and track section could have been moved (Ithink they've been turned around), but what about the coal office? Where exactly was the station in relation to what's there now?
Love Hunstanton. As a American I lived there as a child when my dad was at RAF Sculthorpe. 1962
I've been to Hunstanton a few times since I moved to Ely and its a very nice place to visit and go for a stroll. I already knew about the pier being lost but quite frankly, the new building looks terrible and out of place! Nice video though.....
I've only just found your video, thanks for posting, Hunstanton was our local sea side place for our holidays. We would travel by train from Peterborough and the first thing we would do was to enjoy tea at the Sandringham Hotel in their buttery, There was of couse a miniature steam train that ran along the pier. I have some nice memories.
I had no idea there was a steam train on the pier. Must have been a bit of a fire hazard given there is a lot of wooden structure to an old pier. Unfortunately in the time I've known Hunstanton it's only ever had that stub of the pier with the amusement arcade on it. I quite liked the old one wiith it's 60s and 70s design. Can't say I'm so keen on the new one though. Although I am pleased it's in exactly the same place and even looks like it could have a recreated pier atttached to it at some point in the future.
@@AndysShed a photo exists of me in summer 1961, and behind me is the little train, so I wonder what year they removed it, amazingly Hunstanton had 5 miniature lines and Skegness had 7 , not all at the same time and it is extremely difficult to find any information on those small railways
I really enjoyed that it was brilliant I love Hunstanton I go every year for me holiday lovely place thank you
Hello Andy, thank you for your visit to Hunstanton. I have my own special memories of the place when I used to see someone who lived near Kings Lynn. Did you know that the pier at Hunstanton was used in an old Ealing film called All AT SEA, I think in the USA the film was called BARNICAL BILL. or was it the other way round ? The film was about a sea sick navy captain. I think it was the last film Ealing made. I been trying to find a copy of it on DVD, can anyone help ? Anyway, i wish Hunstanton still had it's pier and it's railway station. Thank you for making the video. 🙂👍
I have a feeling most of the Ealing comedy films have been released on home video, but I think it might have been on VHS. I've definitely seen that movie on TV as well, but it's a long time ago.
A nice little tour Andy - many thanks! I've never been to Hunstanton, but remember studying The Hunstanton Red Rock sequence on my uni geology course. Fascinating stuff... Look forward to your next great video!
Thanks Pete. Hopefully I'll be back with something new next weekend.
That car park you started in was always, there the railway station (now a car park) was behind the fence near the red building.
Very interesting. Thanks for the little tour. I fancy a munch on those doughnuts.
Sorry, you're too late. I ate them already :-)
I remember the pier and amusement arcade from when my parents used to bring me here as a boy. I somehow thought that that building wasn't what I remembered even though it was in the right place.
The new building is a bit strange. They've designed it like it should be attached to a pier, even though there has never been a pier joined onto it. There is a video of the fire that destroyed the original on here somewhere.
I've lived here most my life
Yes, the pier went in January 1978, then the fire in 2001 destroyed the remaining building, I think there was 2 other fires in 1939? And 1957, I think a tiny piece of concrete exists of the old pier but the thing they have now does not deserve to be called a pier, a small piece of wooden buffer stop exists in the car park but I heard some recent alterations may mean that has gone now, the miniature train on the pier did not seem to last long and gone sometime after 1961, there was a total of 5 miniature railways in Hunstanton but its extremely difficult to find any information on them except one ran from the the fairground is now.
I was born in Wisbech, but lived in Upwell and it's Hunstun, not Hunstanton, though it's spelt that way. Just like it's Snetson not Snetisham. Must keep those old pronouncements alive and kicking. I spent many summers Cocking with my dad & younger brothers, while mum sunbathed, in both places along thier very wide beaches.
I visited Hunstanton almost every sunday 1959 to 2020 , only missing if I was doing something else, mainly I do not go now to save money on petrol etc...
The carpark by the arcade right at the beginning had nothing to do with the station. It was still a carpark when the station was there.
Yeah it's the one opposite the showboat I think it is they still have one signal and train track not so sure bout the track
The car park I walk across in the video definitely was part of the station complex. The bit of track and signal may have been moved slightly for display purposes.
You are correct Jon, that is the wrong car park at the start of the video.
I'm not understanding how it can be the wrong car park when there is track, a signal and the original coal office still there. I can see how the signal and track section could have been moved (Ithink they've been turned around), but what about the coal office?
Where exactly was the station in relation to what's there now?
@@AndysShed The car park from 18 seconds to 49 seconds and between 3 minutes 1second and 3 minutes 15 seconds was not part of the station.
To think my father used to work from that coal office
Hi Andy did you work on Peterborough city council
No, not me.