Old Hunstanton Beach Live Webcam
From the very top of the former Coastguard Lookout, enjoy a unique panoramic view of Old Hunstanton Beach. Known for its immense expanse of sand at low tide, beach huts, dunes and kitesurfers.
185 Comments
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Sara 25 days ago
Beautiful views from the Web cam, many special memories in hunstanton as children and as a family now :)
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Jean Dorset 1 month ago
Looking good in hunny looking forward to our holiday in October.
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Love Hunstanton 2 months ago
I wish I was there
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Graham 3 months ago
Wow, another moving camera, excellent…..
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Jean Dorset 7 months ago
Just had my my trip sunny hunny from a very wet Dorset miss our walks with our dog Kia.
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Steve 7 months ago
I was watching in Southern Spain. Very well done.
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Alan 7 months ago
Nice to see the camera fixed ,so as to see the fireworks .Excellent
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Tracey 7 months ago
Watching from Redlands California!
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Jane 7 months ago
Lovely being able to watch the fireworks from my sofa.
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Mandy 7 months ago
Watching from West Yorkshire
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Marie 7 months ago
Watching from leicester thank you
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Tim 7 months ago
Nice display
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Linda Davies 7 months ago
fireworks are good pity there’s no sound would like to have heard the music
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John 7 months ago
Cliff car park looks amazing tonight with the bonfire and fair rides.
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Caz 7 months ago
Thank you for letting us watch the firework display remotely. Would one day love to be there for real and enjoy the atmosphere too.
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Mavis 8 months ago
The Lighthouse Cafe is in Hunstanton as it sit on Hunstanton’s Cliffs, Old Hunstanton begins after the tree-break at the bottom of the carpark. ;)
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Ian and Beverly 8 months ago
Staying at the Coastguard lookout this week to celebrate our Ruby wedding anniversary and spotted the webcam looking out at the same time as us at the same view. Will log on when we get home and pretend we’re still on holiday.
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Simon 9 months ago
We’ll be there next week. Can’t wait for our yearly holiday in good old Sunny Hunny
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Caz 10 months ago
Lovely stop off for a cuppa and cake at the lighthouse cafe today. So nice to be back in Old Hunstanton
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Karl 11 months ago
Still a few people on the cliff top beach tonight
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Kath 11 months ago
Stunning sunset tonight.
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Jean 11 months ago
Great time in very sunny hunny hope to come back later in the year.
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Steve 11 months ago
So the Times newspaper says this beach is the best in the east. Just confirming what we already know.
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Steve 12 months ago
I know what you mean Charlie. I am in very hot southern Spain and I would rather be in Old Hunston tonight.
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Charlie 12 months ago
Looking at this from a very warm place in France… and I’d rather be in Sunny Hunny. Looks like a wonderful evening.
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jules 12 months ago
beautiful views beautiful place always
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Georgina 1 year ago
fantastic
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Jean Dorset 1 year ago
Looking forward to our holiday in Norfolk 13days to go
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Steve 1 year ago
Could,nt sleep last night and was looking at 4.05. Wonderful sunrise and 2 cars arriving.
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Vivien 1 year ago
Superb!
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Joan. 1 year ago
Thank you, I can give it a try.
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Steve 1 year ago
I live in Spain ands it is many years since I walked down there, but I do not think you will find it steep.
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Joan 1 year ago
Thanks Steve, sounds a bit too steep for me.
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Steve 1 year ago
Back in the 60’s the access to the beach was a steep often muddy path. Around 1967 the council built a concrete path which went around the cliff as you walked down and was appx 3 mts wide. It was built on a red rock wall collected from the cliffs and even had a metal handrail. Over the following few years the sand covered it. It is still there under the sand.
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Joan 1 year ago
Looks good car park for beach access. Is it a steep walk down to beach ? Hope to be there in couple of weeks.
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Jeannie 1 year ago
What a beautiful d sun set
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Jasmin 1 year ago
Hunstanton looking beautiful this morning. Thank you to the gentleman cleaning the green. Always looks lovely
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Mark 1 year ago
I do indeed remember Steve :)
Many an enjoyable hour spent idling away the time down there!!
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Lexi 1 year ago
Been watching these cameras at night time, last night we had a full moon and by around 4am the moon was in full view of all cams, casting its eire glow on the sea, it could have been daylight it was so bright out there, utterly gorgeous!
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Steve 1 year ago
For anybody that is interested. The Pillbox near the Le strange Arms was on the beach . There is a large sand dune between the beach huts, it was there. The remains took the shape of two marine landing craft which was great fun for us kids ( remember Mark) and is most likely still there under the sand.
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Steve 1 year ago
Yes that was very interesting. One thread took me to pillboxs. As children we played in pillboxs, one on the way to Holme, one down waterworks road and one in front of the Le Strange Arms which the army blew up, but we still played on what was left.
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Steve 1 year ago
Thankyou I will give it a try
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Jenny 1 year ago
Steve, just type MNF24939 in the search bar, then click on the Norfolk Heritage Explorer option.
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Steve 1 year ago
I could not find info on this site. What did you type in?
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Jenny 1 year ago
Jeannie, have a look at Norfolk Heritage Explorer. It seems the tunnels etc are connected to WW2.
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Jeannie 1 year ago
Have to get Ellie Griffiths archaeologist character Ruth Galloway on the case. Although she usually gets involved in murder cases.
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Zolfo 1 year ago
Time for a geophysical survey of the area and a summer archaeological event lead by Heritage Norfolk ? Lets get recording our local history.
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Steve 1 year ago
That is interesting. The house must be at the lighthouse end as those houses were built after the war. The crater where the tunnel I went into I was told, was made by the first Zeplin bomb to fall in first world war. Maybe not true!
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Lynn 1 year ago
Steve, a friend of mine who lives on Northgate has got one of these tunnels in her garden. Its blocked off now and is just used for storage but it used to go right down to the beach.
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Steve 1 year ago
In a local magazine I read online a year or so ago. Dick Melton wrote that hundreds of men were in these tunnels and it was top secret. One part was so big that a band entertained the men. Very little has ever been said about this.
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Steve 1 year ago
I forgot to say that the tunnel came out in the face of the cliffs roughly where this cable is. I was told the tunnel had been blocked off
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Steve 1 year ago
As a child living in Old Hunstanton I was taken down into a tunnel .The entrance was in a large crater now filled in and is part of the pitch and putt coarse. There were many tunnels inside these cliffs used during the war.
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Zolfo Springs 1 year ago
There’s an old armoured coaxial cable 100m from the base of the cliff, on the beach opposite the Lighthouse. Does anyone knows what it was used for ? Is it an old WW2 communication cable, an old GPO cable or a cable to the other side of The Wash.
I know some lightships had cable comms but I don’t think Lynnwell lightship had such a luxury.
I did take a section to the Hunstanton Heritage centre a few years ago but they had no idea it was on the beach. Over to you.
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Susan Lawrence 1 year ago
Love this place. My Nan used to live in one of the coastguard cottages no. 6 loved staying with her. Fantastic place to grow up.
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Kathryn 1 year ago
Stunning sunset tonight
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Steve 1 year ago
As a child back in the 60´s I can remember watching this Cafe being built and thinking how modern and different it looked.
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Janmolly 1 year ago
Lovely beach was there yesterday with the dogs..freezing cold but the dogs enjoyed it..we defrosted with coffee and brandy at the Mariner…
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Angela 1 year ago
What a beautiful morning
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Dawn 1 year ago
Many thanks for the beautiful views of sunny hunny
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Will 1 year ago
Loving this. Much appreciated. Thank you.
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David 1 year ago
Great view for water sport’s fans.
Many thanks
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David 1 year ago
Great view for water sport’s fans.
Many thanks
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Rosie 1 year ago
This is a brilliant new outlook fro the clifftop thank you
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Dawn 1 year ago
Loving the new moving camera. It’s lovely to see the different angles.
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Rob 1 year ago
What a fantastic new camera/views.
Thank you!
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Jeannie 1 year ago
Beautiful sunset.
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Steve 1 year ago
What wonderful weather for News Years Eve. What I would do to be on this beach today.
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EMAS 1 year ago
Thank you for the new webcam views, cant get there to enjoy as much as would like but second best is enjoying the views, so thank you. Happy new year.
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Wendy 1 year ago
Really enjoying the new views, Thank You. Even if there are days we can’t get out we can still enjoy with the lovely views on the web cam.
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Hilary 1 year ago
Thank you for the new webcam views. It’s like being there
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Jean 1 year ago
Merry Christmas Hunstanton I hope to watch the swim
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Steve 1 year ago
This web cam is very good. So nice to see the beach I once knew so well.
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Sue 1 year ago
Love the new upgrade, beautiful views. Thank you and merry Christmas to everyone.
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Jeanie 1 year ago
Not sure about the new views, I like to watch the people walking their dogs, maybe the new views are to catch sunrise/sunset?
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Barbara 1 year ago
Thank you for the new view. This is brilliant! Love looking at Hunstanton and all the webcams
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Roger 1 year ago
Great new webcam at old hunstanton. Well done
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Jo 1 year ago
Absolutely love the upgrade. It’s lovely watching from your warm and cosy living room. Roll on summer. Merry Xmas to all.
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Lynn 1 year ago
Loving the upgrade. Thank you and merry Christmas X
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John 2 years ago
great views, where is everybody?
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Ned 2 years ago
That’s better! Thanks very much :-)
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Karl 2 years ago
When is the cliff top webcam coming back as I am missing it
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Richard 2 years ago
Jan I cannot remember meeting you but I am 71 now did you know I have been living in Dersingham for the last 21 years
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Jan 2 years ago
Richard yes I remember! I thought that was you.
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Richard 2 years ago
Jan your late father and my. Mother where brother and sister
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Jan 2 years ago
Richard yes he was. I think we know each other!
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Jean 2 years ago
Great I am glad you have not switched off I still come to sunny hunny every day
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Richard 2 years ago
Jan in Marland, was your father Robert steel who lived in Dersingham
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Jan 2 years ago
I’m watching from Maryland. Hope we can see the fireworks. I love looking at my favourite beach through the webcams. Spent a lot of time in Hunstanton when I was growing up.
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Wendy 2 years ago
Hope we can see the fireworks in Sunny Hunny, I was going to travel from Buckinghamshire, but full of cold ☹️ Hope you all have a fantastic time.
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Dawn 2 years ago
Will you be able to see the fireworks
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Jacky 2 years ago
Love the Hunstanton WebCams. I am not as mobile (physically) as I would like. Seeing the sand, sea and people having fun. Thank you
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Jean 2 years ago
I hope you keep the web cam on I will miss not seeing sunny honey every day
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Wendy 2 years ago
Nice wave from the council worker out there in this weather. Well done x
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Karl 2 years ago
There is a lot of people on the cliff top beach and cars in the car park on a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon
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Steve 2 years ago
Back in the 60´s I was a cub in the Hunstanton 1st. One of the lads while playing fell down these cliffs and survived with cuts and bruises. Very Lucky.
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Lexi 2 years ago
Love these webcams, I only live 20 minutes away from Sunny Hunny and often watch the cams before heading out there when the crowds have departed. Might visit this evening.
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Jean 2 years ago
I visit Hunstanton every day via the web cam we miss our walks with our dog Kia so many things to do I was sorry I had to leave after 10years .
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Karl 2 years ago
What a lovely view from the cliff top webcam and nice to see so many people on the beach
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Rosie 2 years ago
Well done to all who took part in cleaning up the cliff top it looks wonderful. It must have been backbreaking work, but lm sure many,many people will benefit and appreciate the magnificent effort, thank you all
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Tony A 2 years ago
Well done to those who have trimmed the hedges, removed dead growth and mowed the lawns.
How lovely to see the care taken by those involved.
Enjoy the Cliff Top Sea and Sands. It looks a picture.
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Steve 2 years ago
I saw on the local newspapers site that they are about to knock down the bus station. I hope somebody goes down and takes a few photos as in years to come they will be of interest. Plus it will show how short sighted the council were.
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Jeannie 2 years ago
Somebody made lovely job of clearing footpath.
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Lorne 2 years ago
A lot of kite surfers today, taking advantage of the strong winds, great to see
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Brian 2 years ago
John Crussell use to drive for paddy.
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Brian 2 years ago
The women taxi driver was paddy mulligan`s wife Pansy.
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Steve 2 years ago
Yes Paul you are correct Pansy was her name and I am sure she lived on Southend Rd
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paul 2 years ago
the woman taxi driver from the grade a cafe was paddy mulligans daughter and her name was pansy.
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paul 2 years ago
the daughter of paddys taxi was pansy mulligan.
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Patricia 2 years ago
Love watching the kite surfers.
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Brian 2 years ago
Grade a cafe was run by mrs gooch and paddy mulligan ran the taxi service and yes he drove very fast.
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Eric 2 years ago
thanks Steve yes you are right. ?
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Steve 2 years ago
Yes Eric but I think it was called the Grade A and was on the corner at the bottom of Westgate. It had a Juke box and a woman called Paddy offered a Taxi service from there.
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Eric 2 years ago
can anyone remember the gray day cafe. 1960 .
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Steve 2 years ago
Back in the 60`s a man called Fred Turrell lived at the boat house Cafe, his wife ran the cafe. His face was well weather beaten from living at the coast all his life. Before the Life boat was re introduced if there was an emergency he would light an oil drum to help the helicopter where to go.
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The Bard 2 years ago
I’ve been visiting Hunny for some 50-years, and have always missed it on returning home. This community webcam idea is a breath of fresh air, which means I can still feel part of this wonderful coastal town… If you ever decide on another webcam view… The lighthouse is very picturesque. ☺
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The boy dick 2 years ago
Are there any cb radio users in skegness these days I used to speak to people in skegness from hunstanton
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Steve 2 years ago
Can anybody remember in the 60´s the old car rally´s they held on this car park and sometimes on the car park on Seagate Rd. They would race to a timer around a track made of straw bales.
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Helen 2 years ago
great to see you waving mum and dad yesterday enjoy your icecream i got a ice lolly from the freezer and sat in the paddling pool and just pretended i was in sunny hunney.
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Caz 2 years ago
Maybe Rosie, a few times I have looked early when it’s too hot to sleep, it has been busy in the early hours.
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Rosie 2 years ago
I watch the sunrise there most mornings , using my tablet, it really is spectacular, maybe that’s what they are doing ,
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Caz 2 years ago
What goes on at 4.30am at Old Hunstanton? Cliff top car park seems to have several visitors so early in the morning.
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ANDy 2 years ago
Hey Dick.. I m over at Skeggy & yes we used to park up on the pullover and chat over the wash! Was a laugh cos we d flash our headlights to each other and say eyeball eyeball lol! Happy days
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Rosie 2 years ago
So nice to see the sunshine and to know its warm again, hope everyone enjoys themselves and stay safe.
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Corinne 2 years ago
is there a disabled toilet has im in a wheelchair,i cant walk as such,and what is the gift-shop/cafe like here for disabled to please? i havent bee since im been in a chair thankyou
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Debra Goddard 2 years ago
Morning to the Lady waving with her dog ,also to the brave swimmers in the sea at 6.30 this am , lovely to see .
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Kay 2 years ago
Just back from a lovely holiday here… it’s lovely to watch all camera views to keep my memories alive!!
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Dick 2 years ago
A few years ago I used to park on the cliff top car park and talk to people in Skegness on my CB radio, happy days! Also you did not have to pay to park on the cliff car park. Any body else used CB radios today?
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Steve 2 years ago
Back in the 60s I saved my pocket money and my Father took me to Cole’s shop in the high street to buy a large shrimping net. My friend had a father who was a carpenter so he had one made for him. When the tide was out and on the turn we would go and catch loads of shrimps. My Mother would cook them for us and then we went around the village selling them for one shilling a pint, which was a lot back then. Then we would be off to Flemings shop to buy bars of CDM .
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Elizabeth 2 years ago
Love this webcam, reminds me of many a visit to this wonderful place
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Steve 2 years ago
In 1963 I was 5 years old and I can remember my farther taking me down to the beach to see to sea that had frozen over. While he chatted to Percy Richardson I Walked on the sea ( close to the beach)
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Steve 2 years ago
For many years I was a Sales Rep and a customer of mine in Skegness told me that when this car park is full on a sunny day and the sun catches the windsreens as you look across the wash it looks like a large greenhouse. Regarding the horses on the beach back in the 1970s some top horse trainers from Newmarket would send horses down for a break and exercise to a stable in Holme. I don´t know if this is still the case but the speed they were going at the other day this could well be what still happens,
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Adrian 2 years ago
Wonderful to see it so busy again !
Be safe and enjoy the sunshine and freedom.
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Patricia 2 years ago
Seeing this site has remined me how wonderful West Norfolk is and I must visit again soon.
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Maggie 2 years ago
Fabulous watching the sunrise today.
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John 2 years ago
Too many people already know how wonderful Hunny is so please don’t tell any more as its getting a bit crowded and we want it to ourselves
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Steve 2 years ago
Yes Mark the years have gone by so fast. We were so lucky to have our child hood in Old Hunston having the beach and all the local people. Great memories. yes it really is a fantastic coastline.
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mark 2 years ago
steve, you lived in hamon close opposite the lakes/saxby’s? ;)
I lived at #11 next door to the other lakes!!
yeah, remember kicking ball on the car park next to LeStrange & mooching along the (our) beach in the winter when it was empty!!….playing hide & seek underneath the beach huts & scrambling up & down the dunes in raincoats lol
seems like it was only last week instead of 50 odd years ago
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mark 2 years ago
used to live 100 yards from the old town beach for the first 17 yrs of my life & returned to west norfolk again 27 yrs ago…loved it then, still do – still one of the best beaches/coastlines in the country!
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Debra Goddard 2 years ago
Was lovely this morning at 6.45 to see horse riders on the beach.
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Jen 2 years ago
That walk is very special, did it a few time several years ago. Unfortunately I can’t walk that far now.
Really love seeing Sunny Hunny. Good memories.
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John 2 years ago
The walk along the beach from Holme to Old Hunstanton beach is very special.
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JANE 2 years ago
Wonderful project. Both my husband & I were born in Old Hunstanton and Hunstanton in 1942 & 1939 and lived there until 1963 when we married. These have been lovely to view during lock-down. I do hope that a few of your viewers have donated a small amount to help with the running costs.
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Angela 2 years ago
This is our very favorite place to go. The beach is one of the most beautiful in the world for us. On a hot summers day you could imagine you are on a tropical beach. Our dogs LOVE this beach and we our returning today,19.05.21 after losig Fenn one of our dogs. but bringing Megg our other dog who is disabled but adores this beach.
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Heather 2 years ago
Love these webcams very addictive..
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Nigel 2 years ago
We love the Hunstanton webcams and Hunstanton. The views keep us going untill we get there again.
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Valerie 2 years ago
I love our Hunstanton Web Cams they are wonderful.
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Rhys 2 years ago
It’s so cool
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Diana Howell vezina 2 years ago
This is so great wish I could be there .Thanks
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Helen 2 years ago
great to see you mum and dad just . shame on you mum for sitting in a walm car it,s never to cold for a walk
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Sharon 2 years ago
This is such a delight … We get so much pleasure from seeing this wonderful view. We hope to visit, once more, very soon.
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Rosie 2 years ago
So glad you are back
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Steve 2 years ago
As a child in the 1960s my bedroom window faced this car park. From Easter to September there was a man on the gate collecting money and it was never a cheap place to park. When the weather was warm it was always full. As it will be this summer. The price has never put people off coming. If the money was not raised this way it would most likely go onto the council tax bill and in a town where most of the employment is seasonal people would not be able to pay for it. In the winter months when it was free hardly anybody used it and I played golf on it. The pitch and putt coarse was a corn field owned by Mr Pull. A man very much missed. I have lived in Spain for the last 20 years and I can assure you that most places of interest does charge for parking.
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Admin 2 years ago
Hi everyone, we are aware of an issue with comments being cut short when using emjois. We are looking into a fix but for now please hold back from using them. Many thanks, HW admin.
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Wendy 2 years ago
Robin I wrote a longer post but it has been shortened (not by me)so you only see the last bit of the message.
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ROBIN 2 years ago
Wendy, Is that not the Idea ?
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Wendy 2 years ago
Robin, If they let people park for free then you would have the car park full of cars
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ROBIN 2 years ago
Pity the car park is ‘pay and display’ if it was in Spain it would be free, why pay for natural beauty ?
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Rosie 2 years ago
Great to see the new camera here, the cliff top is a favourite place to us, thank you for the opportunity to spend time looking at sunny hunny, hope to be back soon
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Hilary 2 years ago
Thank you for the webcam. So lovely to see the sea and beach even if I can’t be there!
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Caz 2 years ago
Watching the kite surfer, must be cold out there today. Great to see some activity on the beach. Looking forward to my holiday.
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Steve 2 years ago
This is one of the best views in Norfolk. I spent the first 12 years of my life in Old Hunston. My house just out of view. I am 63 now and looking from Spain and I look every day as it great to see home.
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JANE 2 years ago
New roof looks great!
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John 2 years ago
Good job on the roof today boys!
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Chris 2 years ago
Love the Sunny Hunny webcams.
Thank you
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Lizzy B 2 years ago
Thank you – it is wonderful to be at this spot again before we can actually visit!
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John 2 years ago
The walk along the beach from Holme to Old Hunstanton beach is very special.
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Justjo 2 years ago
What’s happening on the beach ?
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darryn 2 years ago
What great camera and view. love old hunstanton. request for the next camera would be up were the boats and jet skis enter the beach would be able to watch the wash monster every day .
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Janet 2 years ago
Miss this place sooo much thanks for the webcam.
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Maureen 2 years ago
Love the webcam – can´t wait to visit again
Maureen – Switzerland
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John 2 years ago
What a lovely view.
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Jane 2 years ago
Can’t wait to walk here again, just an hour away, but just too far atm too come. This is where I come to decompress.
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Maureen 2 years ago
Brilliant, cant wait to be back. In the mean time I can get my Hunstanton fix
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Shirley 2 years ago
Our favourite place to walk and sit with the family and just love the cameras
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kirsty 2 years ago
Hunstanton is on my doorstep so am very lucky but the webcams of the whole stretch is brill lol especially to see how busy it is prior to a trip up there
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Wendy 2 years ago
Looks like a nice day whats the temperature today?
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Rob 2 years ago
We’re so lucky to have Hunstanton on our doorstep. The webcams are brilliant. Thank you!
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Allen 2 years ago
This is just sheer brilliance, love the view and it shows the very best side of Hunstanton (in my opinion only) and the real-time live video feed is even better 3 webcams in Sunny Hunny while Kings Lynn, a major populous town for the county of Norfolk, has 1 and it's an updated one every 30 sec for the poontons and that's it. Hunstanton is showing King's Lynn how it should be done. Well done and congrats on the new webcam, I hope they stay maintained and stay live for many years to come
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Debbie 2 years ago
Lovely – can’t wait till we can visit Hunstanton again.
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Lilian 2 years ago
Fabulous view. 3 Web cams in Hunstanton, how lucky are we?
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Helen 2 years ago
Hi to the guys working on the roof your doing a great job take a break for coffee
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Martyn 2 years ago
Looking Nice roll on unlock lockdown
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Reece 2 years ago
Looks absolutely amazing
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Duncan 2 years ago
Do we know when this will be going live?
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james 2 years ago
good idea lets have more,makes up for not able to go out
Sara 25 days ago
Beautiful views from the Web cam, many special memories in hunstanton as children and as a family now :)
Jean Dorset 1 month ago
Looking good in hunny looking forward to our holiday in October.
Love Hunstanton 2 months ago
I wish I was there
Graham 3 months ago
Wow, another moving camera, excellent…..
Jean Dorset 7 months ago
Just had my my trip sunny hunny from a very wet Dorset miss our walks with our dog Kia.
Steve 7 months ago
I was watching in Southern Spain. Very well done.
Alan 7 months ago
Nice to see the camera fixed ,so as to see the fireworks .Excellent
Tracey 7 months ago
Watching from Redlands California!
Jane 7 months ago
Lovely being able to watch the fireworks from my sofa.
Mandy 7 months ago
Watching from West Yorkshire
Marie 7 months ago
Watching from leicester thank you
Tim 7 months ago
Nice display
Linda Davies 7 months ago
fireworks are good pity there’s no sound would like to have heard the music
John 7 months ago
Cliff car park looks amazing tonight with the bonfire and fair rides.
Caz 7 months ago
Thank you for letting us watch the firework display remotely. Would one day love to be there for real and enjoy the atmosphere too.
Mavis 8 months ago
The Lighthouse Cafe is in Hunstanton as it sit on Hunstanton’s Cliffs, Old Hunstanton begins after the tree-break at the bottom of the carpark. ;)
Ian and Beverly 8 months ago
Staying at the Coastguard lookout this week to celebrate our Ruby wedding anniversary and spotted the webcam looking out at the same time as us at the same view. Will log on when we get home and pretend we’re still on holiday.
Simon 9 months ago
We’ll be there next week. Can’t wait for our yearly holiday in good old Sunny Hunny
Caz 10 months ago
Lovely stop off for a cuppa and cake at the lighthouse cafe today. So nice to be back in Old Hunstanton
Karl 11 months ago
Still a few people on the cliff top beach tonight
Kath 11 months ago
Stunning sunset tonight.
Jean 11 months ago
Great time in very sunny hunny hope to come back later in the year.
Steve 11 months ago
So the Times newspaper says this beach is the best in the east. Just confirming what we already know.
Steve 12 months ago
I know what you mean Charlie. I am in very hot southern Spain and I would rather be in Old Hunston tonight.
Charlie 12 months ago
Looking at this from a very warm place in France… and I’d rather be in Sunny Hunny. Looks like a wonderful evening.
jules 12 months ago
beautiful views beautiful place always
Georgina 1 year ago
fantastic
Jean Dorset 1 year ago
Looking forward to our holiday in Norfolk 13days to go
Steve 1 year ago
Could,nt sleep last night and was looking at 4.05. Wonderful sunrise and 2 cars arriving.
Vivien 1 year ago
Superb!
Joan. 1 year ago
Thank you, I can give it a try.
Steve 1 year ago
I live in Spain ands it is many years since I walked down there, but I do not think you will find it steep.
Joan 1 year ago
Thanks Steve, sounds a bit too steep for me.
Steve 1 year ago
Back in the 60’s the access to the beach was a steep often muddy path. Around 1967 the council built a concrete path which went around the cliff as you walked down and was appx 3 mts wide. It was built on a red rock wall collected from the cliffs and even had a metal handrail. Over the following few years the sand covered it. It is still there under the sand.
Joan 1 year ago
Looks good car park for beach access. Is it a steep walk down to beach ? Hope to be there in couple of weeks.
Jeannie 1 year ago
What a beautiful d sun set
Jasmin 1 year ago
Hunstanton looking beautiful this morning. Thank you to the gentleman cleaning the green. Always looks lovely
Mark 1 year ago
I do indeed remember Steve :) Many an enjoyable hour spent idling away the time down there!!
Lexi 1 year ago
Been watching these cameras at night time, last night we had a full moon and by around 4am the moon was in full view of all cams, casting its eire glow on the sea, it could have been daylight it was so bright out there, utterly gorgeous!
Steve 1 year ago
For anybody that is interested. The Pillbox near the Le strange Arms was on the beach . There is a large sand dune between the beach huts, it was there. The remains took the shape of two marine landing craft which was great fun for us kids ( remember Mark) and is most likely still there under the sand.
Steve 1 year ago
Yes that was very interesting. One thread took me to pillboxs. As children we played in pillboxs, one on the way to Holme, one down waterworks road and one in front of the Le Strange Arms which the army blew up, but we still played on what was left.
Steve 1 year ago
Thankyou I will give it a try
Jenny 1 year ago
Steve, just type MNF24939 in the search bar, then click on the Norfolk Heritage Explorer option.
Steve 1 year ago
I could not find info on this site. What did you type in?
Jenny 1 year ago
Jeannie, have a look at Norfolk Heritage Explorer. It seems the tunnels etc are connected to WW2.
Jeannie 1 year ago
Have to get Ellie Griffiths archaeologist character Ruth Galloway on the case. Although she usually gets involved in murder cases.
Zolfo 1 year ago
Time for a geophysical survey of the area and a summer archaeological event lead by Heritage Norfolk ? Lets get recording our local history.
Steve 1 year ago
That is interesting. The house must be at the lighthouse end as those houses were built after the war. The crater where the tunnel I went into I was told, was made by the first Zeplin bomb to fall in first world war. Maybe not true!
Lynn 1 year ago
Steve, a friend of mine who lives on Northgate has got one of these tunnels in her garden. Its blocked off now and is just used for storage but it used to go right down to the beach.
Steve 1 year ago
In a local magazine I read online a year or so ago. Dick Melton wrote that hundreds of men were in these tunnels and it was top secret. One part was so big that a band entertained the men. Very little has ever been said about this.
Steve 1 year ago
I forgot to say that the tunnel came out in the face of the cliffs roughly where this cable is. I was told the tunnel had been blocked off
Steve 1 year ago
As a child living in Old Hunstanton I was taken down into a tunnel .The entrance was in a large crater now filled in and is part of the pitch and putt coarse. There were many tunnels inside these cliffs used during the war.
Zolfo Springs 1 year ago
There’s an old armoured coaxial cable 100m from the base of the cliff, on the beach opposite the Lighthouse. Does anyone knows what it was used for ? Is it an old WW2 communication cable, an old GPO cable or a cable to the other side of The Wash. I know some lightships had cable comms but I don’t think Lynnwell lightship had such a luxury. I did take a section to the Hunstanton Heritage centre a few years ago but they had no idea it was on the beach. Over to you.
Susan Lawrence 1 year ago
Love this place. My Nan used to live in one of the coastguard cottages no. 6 loved staying with her. Fantastic place to grow up.
Kathryn 1 year ago
Stunning sunset tonight
Steve 1 year ago
As a child back in the 60´s I can remember watching this Cafe being built and thinking how modern and different it looked.
Janmolly 1 year ago
Lovely beach was there yesterday with the dogs..freezing cold but the dogs enjoyed it..we defrosted with coffee and brandy at the Mariner…
Angela 1 year ago
What a beautiful morning
Dawn 1 year ago
Many thanks for the beautiful views of sunny hunny
Will 1 year ago
Loving this. Much appreciated. Thank you.
David 1 year ago
Great view for water sport’s fans. Many thanks
David 1 year ago
Great view for water sport’s fans. Many thanks
Rosie 1 year ago
This is a brilliant new outlook fro the clifftop thank you
Dawn 1 year ago
Loving the new moving camera. It’s lovely to see the different angles.
Rob 1 year ago
What a fantastic new camera/views. Thank you!
Jeannie 1 year ago
Beautiful sunset.
Steve 1 year ago
What wonderful weather for News Years Eve. What I would do to be on this beach today.
EMAS 1 year ago
Thank you for the new webcam views, cant get there to enjoy as much as would like but second best is enjoying the views, so thank you. Happy new year.
Wendy 1 year ago
Really enjoying the new views, Thank You. Even if there are days we can’t get out we can still enjoy with the lovely views on the web cam.
Hilary 1 year ago
Thank you for the new webcam views. It’s like being there
Jean 1 year ago
Merry Christmas Hunstanton I hope to watch the swim
Steve 1 year ago
This web cam is very good. So nice to see the beach I once knew so well.
Sue 1 year ago
Love the new upgrade, beautiful views. Thank you and merry Christmas to everyone.
Jeanie 1 year ago
Not sure about the new views, I like to watch the people walking their dogs, maybe the new views are to catch sunrise/sunset?
Barbara 1 year ago
Thank you for the new view. This is brilliant! Love looking at Hunstanton and all the webcams
Roger 1 year ago
Great new webcam at old hunstanton. Well done
Jo 1 year ago
Absolutely love the upgrade. It’s lovely watching from your warm and cosy living room. Roll on summer. Merry Xmas to all.
Lynn 1 year ago
Loving the upgrade. Thank you and merry Christmas X
John 2 years ago
great views, where is everybody?
Ned 2 years ago
That’s better! Thanks very much :-)
Karl 2 years ago
When is the cliff top webcam coming back as I am missing it
Richard 2 years ago
Jan I cannot remember meeting you but I am 71 now did you know I have been living in Dersingham for the last 21 years
Jan 2 years ago
Richard yes I remember! I thought that was you.
Richard 2 years ago
Jan your late father and my. Mother where brother and sister
Jan 2 years ago
Richard yes he was. I think we know each other!
Jean 2 years ago
Great I am glad you have not switched off I still come to sunny hunny every day
Richard 2 years ago
Jan in Marland, was your father Robert steel who lived in Dersingham
Jan 2 years ago
I’m watching from Maryland. Hope we can see the fireworks. I love looking at my favourite beach through the webcams. Spent a lot of time in Hunstanton when I was growing up.
Wendy 2 years ago
Hope we can see the fireworks in Sunny Hunny, I was going to travel from Buckinghamshire, but full of cold ☹️ Hope you all have a fantastic time.
Dawn 2 years ago
Will you be able to see the fireworks
Jacky 2 years ago
Love the Hunstanton WebCams. I am not as mobile (physically) as I would like. Seeing the sand, sea and people having fun. Thank you
Jean 2 years ago
I hope you keep the web cam on I will miss not seeing sunny honey every day
Wendy 2 years ago
Nice wave from the council worker out there in this weather. Well done x
Karl 2 years ago
There is a lot of people on the cliff top beach and cars in the car park on a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon
Steve 2 years ago
Back in the 60´s I was a cub in the Hunstanton 1st. One of the lads while playing fell down these cliffs and survived with cuts and bruises. Very Lucky.
Lexi 2 years ago
Love these webcams, I only live 20 minutes away from Sunny Hunny and often watch the cams before heading out there when the crowds have departed. Might visit this evening.
Jean 2 years ago
I visit Hunstanton every day via the web cam we miss our walks with our dog Kia so many things to do I was sorry I had to leave after 10years .
Karl 2 years ago
What a lovely view from the cliff top webcam and nice to see so many people on the beach
Rosie 2 years ago
Well done to all who took part in cleaning up the cliff top it looks wonderful. It must have been backbreaking work, but lm sure many,many people will benefit and appreciate the magnificent effort, thank you all
Tony A 2 years ago
Well done to those who have trimmed the hedges, removed dead growth and mowed the lawns. How lovely to see the care taken by those involved. Enjoy the Cliff Top Sea and Sands. It looks a picture.
Steve 2 years ago
I saw on the local newspapers site that they are about to knock down the bus station. I hope somebody goes down and takes a few photos as in years to come they will be of interest. Plus it will show how short sighted the council were.
Jeannie 2 years ago
Somebody made lovely job of clearing footpath.
Lorne 2 years ago
A lot of kite surfers today, taking advantage of the strong winds, great to see
Brian 2 years ago
John Crussell use to drive for paddy.
Brian 2 years ago
The women taxi driver was paddy mulligan`s wife Pansy.
Steve 2 years ago
Yes Paul you are correct Pansy was her name and I am sure she lived on Southend Rd
paul 2 years ago
the woman taxi driver from the grade a cafe was paddy mulligans daughter and her name was pansy.
paul 2 years ago
the daughter of paddys taxi was pansy mulligan.
Patricia 2 years ago
Love watching the kite surfers.
Brian 2 years ago
Grade a cafe was run by mrs gooch and paddy mulligan ran the taxi service and yes he drove very fast.
Eric 2 years ago
thanks Steve yes you are right. ?
Steve 2 years ago
Yes Eric but I think it was called the Grade A and was on the corner at the bottom of Westgate. It had a Juke box and a woman called Paddy offered a Taxi service from there.
Eric 2 years ago
can anyone remember the gray day cafe. 1960 .
Steve 2 years ago
Back in the 60`s a man called Fred Turrell lived at the boat house Cafe, his wife ran the cafe. His face was well weather beaten from living at the coast all his life. Before the Life boat was re introduced if there was an emergency he would light an oil drum to help the helicopter where to go.
The Bard 2 years ago
I’ve been visiting Hunny for some 50-years, and have always missed it on returning home. This community webcam idea is a breath of fresh air, which means I can still feel part of this wonderful coastal town… If you ever decide on another webcam view… The lighthouse is very picturesque. ☺
The boy dick 2 years ago
Are there any cb radio users in skegness these days I used to speak to people in skegness from hunstanton
Steve 2 years ago
Can anybody remember in the 60´s the old car rally´s they held on this car park and sometimes on the car park on Seagate Rd. They would race to a timer around a track made of straw bales.
Helen 2 years ago
great to see you waving mum and dad yesterday enjoy your icecream i got a ice lolly from the freezer and sat in the paddling pool and just pretended i was in sunny hunney.
Caz 2 years ago
Maybe Rosie, a few times I have looked early when it’s too hot to sleep, it has been busy in the early hours.
Rosie 2 years ago
I watch the sunrise there most mornings , using my tablet, it really is spectacular, maybe that’s what they are doing ,
Caz 2 years ago
What goes on at 4.30am at Old Hunstanton? Cliff top car park seems to have several visitors so early in the morning.
ANDy 2 years ago
Hey Dick.. I m over at Skeggy & yes we used to park up on the pullover and chat over the wash! Was a laugh cos we d flash our headlights to each other and say eyeball eyeball lol! Happy days
Rosie 2 years ago
So nice to see the sunshine and to know its warm again, hope everyone enjoys themselves and stay safe.
Corinne 2 years ago
is there a disabled toilet has im in a wheelchair,i cant walk as such,and what is the gift-shop/cafe like here for disabled to please? i havent bee since im been in a chair thankyou
Debra Goddard 2 years ago
Morning to the Lady waving with her dog ,also to the brave swimmers in the sea at 6.30 this am , lovely to see .
Kay 2 years ago
Just back from a lovely holiday here… it’s lovely to watch all camera views to keep my memories alive!!
Dick 2 years ago
A few years ago I used to park on the cliff top car park and talk to people in Skegness on my CB radio, happy days! Also you did not have to pay to park on the cliff car park. Any body else used CB radios today?
Steve 2 years ago
Back in the 60s I saved my pocket money and my Father took me to Cole’s shop in the high street to buy a large shrimping net. My friend had a father who was a carpenter so he had one made for him. When the tide was out and on the turn we would go and catch loads of shrimps. My Mother would cook them for us and then we went around the village selling them for one shilling a pint, which was a lot back then. Then we would be off to Flemings shop to buy bars of CDM .
Elizabeth 2 years ago
Love this webcam, reminds me of many a visit to this wonderful place
Steve 2 years ago
In 1963 I was 5 years old and I can remember my farther taking me down to the beach to see to sea that had frozen over. While he chatted to Percy Richardson I Walked on the sea ( close to the beach)
Steve 2 years ago
For many years I was a Sales Rep and a customer of mine in Skegness told me that when this car park is full on a sunny day and the sun catches the windsreens as you look across the wash it looks like a large greenhouse. Regarding the horses on the beach back in the 1970s some top horse trainers from Newmarket would send horses down for a break and exercise to a stable in Holme. I don´t know if this is still the case but the speed they were going at the other day this could well be what still happens,
Adrian 2 years ago
Wonderful to see it so busy again ! Be safe and enjoy the sunshine and freedom.
Patricia 2 years ago
Seeing this site has remined me how wonderful West Norfolk is and I must visit again soon.
Maggie 2 years ago
Fabulous watching the sunrise today.
John 2 years ago
Too many people already know how wonderful Hunny is so please don’t tell any more as its getting a bit crowded and we want it to ourselves
Steve 2 years ago
Yes Mark the years have gone by so fast. We were so lucky to have our child hood in Old Hunston having the beach and all the local people. Great memories. yes it really is a fantastic coastline.
mark 2 years ago
steve, you lived in hamon close opposite the lakes/saxby’s? ;) I lived at #11 next door to the other lakes!! yeah, remember kicking ball on the car park next to LeStrange & mooching along the (our) beach in the winter when it was empty!!….playing hide & seek underneath the beach huts & scrambling up & down the dunes in raincoats lol seems like it was only last week instead of 50 odd years ago
mark 2 years ago
used to live 100 yards from the old town beach for the first 17 yrs of my life & returned to west norfolk again 27 yrs ago…loved it then, still do – still one of the best beaches/coastlines in the country!
Debra Goddard 2 years ago
Was lovely this morning at 6.45 to see horse riders on the beach.
Jen 2 years ago
That walk is very special, did it a few time several years ago. Unfortunately I can’t walk that far now. Really love seeing Sunny Hunny. Good memories.
John 2 years ago
The walk along the beach from Holme to Old Hunstanton beach is very special.
JANE 2 years ago
Wonderful project. Both my husband & I were born in Old Hunstanton and Hunstanton in 1942 & 1939 and lived there until 1963 when we married. These have been lovely to view during lock-down. I do hope that a few of your viewers have donated a small amount to help with the running costs.
Angela 2 years ago
This is our very favorite place to go. The beach is one of the most beautiful in the world for us. On a hot summers day you could imagine you are on a tropical beach. Our dogs LOVE this beach and we our returning today,19.05.21 after losig Fenn one of our dogs. but bringing Megg our other dog who is disabled but adores this beach.
Heather 2 years ago
Love these webcams very addictive..
Nigel 2 years ago
We love the Hunstanton webcams and Hunstanton. The views keep us going untill we get there again.
Valerie 2 years ago
I love our Hunstanton Web Cams they are wonderful.
Rhys 2 years ago
It’s so cool
Diana Howell vezina 2 years ago
This is so great wish I could be there .Thanks
Helen 2 years ago
great to see you mum and dad just . shame on you mum for sitting in a walm car it,s never to cold for a walk
Sharon 2 years ago
This is such a delight … We get so much pleasure from seeing this wonderful view. We hope to visit, once more, very soon.
Rosie 2 years ago
So glad you are back
Steve 2 years ago
As a child in the 1960s my bedroom window faced this car park. From Easter to September there was a man on the gate collecting money and it was never a cheap place to park. When the weather was warm it was always full. As it will be this summer. The price has never put people off coming. If the money was not raised this way it would most likely go onto the council tax bill and in a town where most of the employment is seasonal people would not be able to pay for it. In the winter months when it was free hardly anybody used it and I played golf on it. The pitch and putt coarse was a corn field owned by Mr Pull. A man very much missed. I have lived in Spain for the last 20 years and I can assure you that most places of interest does charge for parking.
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Wendy 2 years ago
Robin I wrote a longer post but it has been shortened (not by me)so you only see the last bit of the message.
ROBIN 2 years ago
Wendy, Is that not the Idea ?
Wendy 2 years ago
Robin, If they let people park for free then you would have the car park full of cars
ROBIN 2 years ago
Pity the car park is ‘pay and display’ if it was in Spain it would be free, why pay for natural beauty ?
Rosie 2 years ago
Great to see the new camera here, the cliff top is a favourite place to us, thank you for the opportunity to spend time looking at sunny hunny, hope to be back soon
Hilary 2 years ago
Thank you for the webcam. So lovely to see the sea and beach even if I can’t be there!
Caz 2 years ago
Watching the kite surfer, must be cold out there today. Great to see some activity on the beach. Looking forward to my holiday.
Steve 2 years ago
This is one of the best views in Norfolk. I spent the first 12 years of my life in Old Hunston. My house just out of view. I am 63 now and looking from Spain and I look every day as it great to see home.
JANE 2 years ago
New roof looks great!
John 2 years ago
Good job on the roof today boys!
Chris 2 years ago
Love the Sunny Hunny webcams. Thank you
Lizzy B 2 years ago
Thank you – it is wonderful to be at this spot again before we can actually visit!
John 2 years ago
The walk along the beach from Holme to Old Hunstanton beach is very special.
Justjo 2 years ago
What’s happening on the beach ?
darryn 2 years ago
What great camera and view. love old hunstanton. request for the next camera would be up were the boats and jet skis enter the beach would be able to watch the wash monster every day .
Janet 2 years ago
Miss this place sooo much thanks for the webcam.
Maureen 2 years ago
Love the webcam – can´t wait to visit again Maureen – Switzerland
John 2 years ago
What a lovely view.
Jane 2 years ago
Can’t wait to walk here again, just an hour away, but just too far atm too come. This is where I come to decompress.
Maureen 2 years ago
Brilliant, cant wait to be back. In the mean time I can get my Hunstanton fix
Shirley 2 years ago
Our favourite place to walk and sit with the family and just love the cameras
kirsty 2 years ago
Hunstanton is on my doorstep so am very lucky but the webcams of the whole stretch is brill lol especially to see how busy it is prior to a trip up there
Wendy 2 years ago
Looks like a nice day whats the temperature today?
Rob 2 years ago
We’re so lucky to have Hunstanton on our doorstep. The webcams are brilliant. Thank you!
Allen 2 years ago
This is just sheer brilliance, love the view and it shows the very best side of Hunstanton (in my opinion only) and the real-time live video feed is even better 3 webcams in Sunny Hunny while Kings Lynn, a major populous town for the county of Norfolk, has 1 and it's an updated one every 30 sec for the poontons and that's it. Hunstanton is showing King's Lynn how it should be done. Well done and congrats on the new webcam, I hope they stay maintained and stay live for many years to come
Debbie 2 years ago
Lovely – can’t wait till we can visit Hunstanton again.
Lilian 2 years ago
Fabulous view. 3 Web cams in Hunstanton, how lucky are we?
Helen 2 years ago
Hi to the guys working on the roof your doing a great job take a break for coffee
Martyn 2 years ago
Looking Nice roll on unlock lockdown
Reece 2 years ago
Looks absolutely amazing
Duncan 2 years ago
Do we know when this will be going live?
james 2 years ago
good idea lets have more,makes up for not able to go out
Cliff Top & Old Hunstanton
Starting from the Esplanade Gardens, you can explore the stunning clifftop scenery and read the story of St Edmund, Hunstanton’s most famous visitor and the very first patron saint of England. His story leads you to the ruins of St Edmund’s chapel, built in 1272 in his memory.
The stripes in Hunstanton's cliffs are caused by layers of different-coloured carrstone and chalk. Carrstone is the brown layer, and the red and white chalk is made from limestone. Limestone forms in warm tropical climates, which suggests that Hunstanton's climate was once warmer than it is today. The colour of the red chalk is due to iron staining.
Old Hunstanton Beach is home to picture-postcard rolling sand dunes and beach huts stretched along the wide sandy and dog-friendly beach. The Hunstanton Lifeboat Station at Old Hunstanton is the base for the local RNLI housing a B class lifeboat and hovercraft.
Coastguard Lookout
Originally built as a Marconi Wireless Station back in 1906, during WWII the building continued as a signal station and was visited by his Majesty King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1943.
Today, the former Coastguard Lookout is now a holiday cottage and offers guests a truly unique holiday experience in Hunstanton with unparalleled panoramic sea views.
Located next door to the old lighthouse and sitting on top of Hunstanton's famous striped cliffs, the Coastguard Lookout is less than a 5-minute walk to the beach and boasts a top floor lookout tower.
The property itself sleeps 4 people featuring a double bedroom and bunk beds. The bedrooms are all located on the first floor and come with that amazing sea view.
- Lighthouse Close
Hunstanton
PE36 6EL - 01485 534267
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