EAW038319 ENGLAND (1951). Church Street and environs, Sheringham, 1951. This image has been produced from a print.

ANTI TANK BLOCK: e61445

Steps from 'Muffet' down to railway yard, family would then walk, with great caution, across the rail tracks next to the bridge, to get to the platform, and in the opposite direction to return. This would not be allowed now! Sometimes a goods truck would be shunted from the west side to the yard, it's would just come eerily under the bridge at quite a speed! So you had to be very aware of train activities!

Artist Studio belonging to Stanley Wray Barwell who's father was Frederic Barwell, portrait in National Gallery, the studio was purchased by Walter Charles Bill, for the sum of £15, his family used it until it was taken back by the railway company.

The Lobster PH

The Crown PH

Oddfellows Hall - originally the lifeboat house

Cleared site of wartime air raid shelter - St Peter's Hall was built here subsequently.

Station Hotel bowling green

Station Hotel (later the Dolphin)

Doctor's surgery

Sid Hastings fruit and vegetable

Young's butchers. (Now Seafare fish and chips)

John Hastings, fruit and vegetable

Barney's tobacconist and confectioner

Urban District Council offices

Police Station - later moved to Weybourne Road

Station Putting Green (9 holes)

Sheringham West signalbox. (Not the present one on the preserved railway - that came from the Norwich area.)

St. Peter’s Church

site of wreck of the Ispolen

Burlington Hotel

Grand Hotel

Railway water tank

Sadlers's garage back ing onto Waterbank Road his brother kept the other garage in Norfolk road

Crab boat which took trippers out along to the lifeboat shed back along to Beeston Hill and back to start, price 1 shilling and 6 pence. (7 1/2p) the boat is probably Eric Wink's

The picture house cinema known as the " flea pit" ... This is now " The Little Theatre"

The Post Office

Bertram Watts bookshop

My aunt and uncle Annie and Fred farrow lived here

Continental cafe

Water point for steam engines

Sheringham railway station had at this point a WH Smith newsagents where I served the troop trains to and from Weybourne TA gunnery camp from a wheelbarrow on the platforms in the early 1950's

William Marriott chief engineer of the M&GN railway lived here in an old converted railway carriage

Sheringham Station, 03/09/2012

Anti tank defences

Bicycle race track