Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, 2002

The year is 2002 and we are staying at a B&B in Great Yarmouth, using it as a base for touring around various places in Norfolk and Suffolk.

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Cherry Stone Game

It's been the negatives of 1991 that have been going through the scanner this week. Most of the photos, of course, wouldn't be of interest to anyone but family, but there are a few gems that remind me of a particularly fun day or something that made us laugh.

In the week of Spring Bank Holiday that year we went as an extended family group to Great Yarmouth for a week. One of the wettest, coldest weeks I've ever spent down there. On one particularly rainy day we hired a boat and took it down the Norfolk Broads from Wroxham. And it's in that maze of anonymous waterways (because from this kind of boat you can't see over the reeds on either side) that we indulged in this pasttime...


Step 1 - eat a cherry.

Step 2 - fire the cherry stone (bio-degradable, let's not be ungreen...) through the open
roof to try to hit passing floating objects, sticks, cans, cabin cruisers or duckies...

How to cheat - Mum uses machine gun fire...

Please note that no duckies were harmed during the making of this blog...

Large versions of the photos: Oh, give over...

Can you Identify this Windmill?

How many times does this happen? You go somewhere on holiday and visit a place but you have nothing to write down the name of where you are and when you get home you cannot remember!

This is either a windmill or a wind-driven drainage pump on the Norfolk Broads about half and hour to an hour out of Great Yarmouth. Can anyone identify it for me? If you can give me any information on this building please leave a comment either against this blog post or against the photograph at Flickr. The photographs were taken in 1995.

The Flickr site no longer exists, but grateful thanks to Andrew Dunn who left a comment on the photo at Flick - it's the Berney Arms Windmill on the River Yare.