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Mundesley, The Beach Café c.1955
Photo ref: M109046
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More about this scene

This popular cafe supplied everything to provide a fun day for all the family: buckets, spades, fishing nets and trays of tea and sandwiches. What it did not supply was thermal swimwear, which accounts for the lack of swimmers in the sea. Owing to flooding and coastal erosion problems, the cafe was soon to be demolished and another built in its place on high stilts, together with improved sea defences to preserve this area of the beach.

A Selection of Memories from Mundesley

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Mundesley

Sparked a Memory for you?

If this has sparked a memory, why not share it here?

I was born in 1953, so I think it must have been 1958/59 when we had a holiday in Mundesley - but what may seem strange is we had an old scout ridge tent but it was put up at the back of a pub. Cannot recall what the pub was called. Remember my mum going to a shop and bought me a blue jeep with soldiers and that kept me happy all week - does this ring a bell with someone or am I totally bonkers.
When I was 12 years old my family came to Mundesley for the first time. We stayed in the Manor Hotel. It was me, my brother, mother and father and my lovely grannie. I remember loving my stay here, the food was excellent, the people so friendly and being kissed in the swimming pool by a boy who was older than me called Robert. (Maybe that's what brought me back many many years later to live in ...see more
I was born on 18 September 1962 in my mum & dad's bedroom at AMQ6, Fraser Crescent, Mundesley-On-Sea. Dad was a corporal telephonist (Tom Gill) at RAF Trimingham while mum was kept busy bringing up my 4 siblings, all of whom are much older than me. When I was born Norma was 16, Joyce 15, Thomas 13 and Anne 12. Norma worked at the Royal Hotel in Mundesley which is very much still there now, and I in fact stayed there ...see more
We lived at number 3 Fraser Crescent from 1958 until 1962. My father was an airman at the time. My brother was born in the prefab in 1960. Imagine my delight to recognise myself in the photo. I am the taller girl in the patterned dress on the right of the picture. Mum's rule was that I must not go through the gate without her. As you can see, we are standing beside the road. This is why I am not facing the front. I ...see more