d4d (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Tonight, the next village along is having its firework night party. I don’t think we’ll actually hear anything of it at all, but due to the date, we’re going to be spending most of today exhausting Hound. So it looks like we’ll be off to one of the North Norfolk beaches - Wells or Holkham most [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
The shabby-chic decor evokes the subcontinent - less Empress of India than hippy trail, finds Jasper Gerard.
Shedworking (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Prices for beach huts, perfect for mild holiday shedworking, still seem to be holding up well with the Eastern Daily Press reporting that Norfolk estate agents Belton Duffey have put the hut pictured above at the Holkham end of Wells beach on the market for £65,000. As always, it comes with lovely views (the beach appeared in Shakespeare in Love) but no mains servies. Other particulars: The beach...
The Ethical Palaeontologist (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
I have returned from Norfolk, county of few surnames. What a brilliant weekend all round. I'm absolutely bloody knackered, but have come back with a few things to write about. But for now, just have a handful of photos of the area to let you know what we were dealing with. This was Holkham bay. Holkham was the beach featured at the end of "Shakespeare In Love" , and I think it was also the location...
The Why of the World (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
The travel desk have been running a series of features on the world's best beaches ? Well I'd vote for Holkham in Norfolk to be among one of the best in Britain, if...
The Monarchist (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Members of The Household Cavalry, The Life Guards regiment, and their horses enjoy a break from ceremonial duties with a gallop in the surf along Holkham Beach, Holkham, Norfolk, 22 July 2008. The regiment is currently on a three week summer training camp at Bodney Camp. Following the gallop along the beach, members of The Household Cavalry take their horses for a swim. The Household Cavalry, which...
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Cathy asked (an embarrassingly long time ago): "I recently read a plaque fixed to the old ice house at Holkham Hall in Norfolk which said that one of the earliest such structures in England was the 'snow conserver' built for James I At Greenwich. Any ideas on where it was and what happened to it?" The Phantom has been pondering on this. It's clearly an early Ice House - which was the ultimate expression...
UNCoRRELATED (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
This is Holkham beach, Norfolk, UK, scene of the last shots of a favourite movie, Shakespeare In Love. The beach stands in both for the New World to which duty and her father drive Gwynneth Paltrow away from Shakespeare and love and for the coast of Illyria in Twelfth Night, which Shakespeare is just imagining. From the film script by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard: My story starts at sea, a perilous...
d4d (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Yesterday, we went out on a trip to a piece of Norfolk we hadn't seen before/yet/so far. While we’ve regularly been up to the North coast around Wells, Blakeney, Holkham and so on, we hadn't yet been up around the Cromer area, or down some of the East coast. So we ended up going around Necton, [...]
