NEWS

THE HERITAGE CENTRE REOPENED ON WEDNESDAY, 15TH FEBRUARY 2023
WE SHALL BE OPEN ON WEDNESDAYS, FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS and BANK HOLIDAYS FROM 2.00PM until 4.00PM.
The Centre may well be open at times prior to these hours if volunteers are available.

We are happy to add some pages to the website to include items we hold at the Heritage Centre that we have been including in our Newsletters from April 2020. These can be found by clicking here

WE HAD OUR OFFICIAL OPENING OR OUR NEW HERITAGE CENTRE
ON 14TH FEBRUARY 2020



By clicking here you will see a number of photos of the formal opening of the Heritage Centre very kindly taken by Chris Bishop.

WE MOVED TO NEW PREMISES.



The premises at 15 The Green, Hunstanton was sold in February 2019 and we have moved to new premises at the old NatWest Bank on the corner of Greevegate and Northgate.
After a few months of exceedingly hard work turning the bank into a new Heritage Centre, we actually had an unofficial opening ceremony on Saturday, 8th June 2019.

Here we are with Amanda Bosworth, our mayor, cutting the ribbon at the opening ceremony. The weather was not very kind to us and as you can see we were being blown about quite a bit!
Those who attended both that day and the next two days were very complimentary making all the hard work really worth while.



On Sunday, 9th June we were honoured to have a visit by the former Commanding Officer of the USAF 67th SOS who happened to be passing through Hunstanton on her way back to the USA. Col. Shelley Rodrigues along with Mark Service, official historian of the 67th SOS, popped in and viewed the new Centre and seemed to be very impressed. Here is a photo taken on the day with (from left to right) John and Pat Maiden, Andrew Murray, Mark Service and Shelley :




On Wednesday, 30th October 2019 we had a visit by Hunstanton Rotary Club to view the Centre.
It seems the visit was enjoyed by all and below is a photo taken of them all :



LEAFLET
This is our new leaflet that has been widely distributed both locally and further afield although, please note that the opening hours have been amended to those above.

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The Heritage Centre opened its doors to the public on 3rd August 2013 at 15 The Green, Hunstanton.
It was shortly after opened formally by Tim Bentinck (otherwise known as David Archer
in the Radio 4 programme "The Archers").
The Centre has attracted close on 10,000 people through it's doors each year since then (50,000 up to November 2018.
As you can read in the article below (courtesy of the Lynn News), this whole project was made possible by the generosity of the owners of the premises, Derek and Solveig Ward, who very kindly allowed the Society to use the rooms under their home as the base for the Hunstanton Heritage Centre until we moved out in February 2019.

BBC Radio Norfolk visit our Heritage Centre, not once but twice!
On Sunday, 30th October 2016, we had a visit by Sophie Little looking for a clue, and found it! Here is a pic taken on the day. We had a sudden interest in the Centre that afternoon and hosted quite a number of visitors.
Then again on Sunday, 17th February 2019, we had a return visit by Sophie, this time to our new premises at the old NatWest building on Northgate. This was despite the fact that we were not moving in until literally the next day from 15 The Green. This time we had two clues for her. She found where the 2nd clue was - locked up in a cash box in the bank vault. Where was the key? - well that was the first clue which she found in the donations jar sitting on the floor of the main banking room. This allowed her to get to the Treasure.