Cromer after the flood

Cromer is a lovely little seaside town on the North Norfolk coast. It’s just a 40-minute train journey from Norwich and very popular amongst newly arrived exchange students as well as anybody in Norfolk owning a dog – it seems.

I could tell you about the seaside nostalgia you get as you walk down the the small cobbled streets of Cromer. Indeed it seems that the town has been mostly spared by arcades and amusements. Cromer takes its charm from the impressive seafront, its distinctive pier with a lifeboat station at its far end, quaint beach huts and the rough cliffs on either side.

However, at the moment there is something else to see in Cromer. December 2013 was a disastrous time for the Norfolk coast, as a storm surge attacked seafronts, destroyed cliffs and the houses that found themselves too near the water.

Here is a BBC report from right after the floods.

Six weeks after storm surge, the consequences are still visible. Here are some of the pictures that give you an idea of the destructive force of the sea, that has in some way been more clement to this coast than it has been to the South of England in the past week!

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