Hunstanton
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Hunstanton is a seaside town and civil parish in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. The town's seafront faces west across The Wash. Hunstanton lies 102 miles
View of Hunstanton front from the beach
Remains of St Edmund's Memorial Chapel in 2016
Hunstanton Town Hall and the statue of Henry Styleman Le Strange
The stratified carrstone (orange), red chalk limestone and white chalk cliffs on the beach at Old Hunstanton
North Sea flood of 1953
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The North Sea flood of 1953, also known as the Big Flood or East Coast Flood or as the Flood Disaster, was a flood caused by a heavy storm surge in the North Sea that struck low-lying coastal areas of
Hunstanton
…Among them were regimental bagpiper Iain Eairdsidh MacAsgaill (1898-1934), and poet Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna (1887-1967). Hunstanton was hit badly by the North Sea flood of 1953. The wall of water on the night of 31 January – 1 February killed 31 people, 16 of them United States military personnel and their families. There were…
Aftermath of the flood in Oude-Tonge, Goeree-Overflakkee, Netherlands
Een dubbeltje op zijn kant ("A dubbeltje on its edge", meaning 'a narrow escape'), a sculpture by Roel Bendijk of de Twee Gebroeders in the Groenedijk. 'Dubbeltje' (lit. 'little double') was a thin, former Dutch coin
A breach at Erith after the 1953 flood
Blue plaque in Leigh-on-Sea commemorating the flood