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Pavilion Theatre on the end of Cromer Pier Ticket for the Pavilion Theatre on Cromer Pier, Show: The Manfreds. Cromer Pier is a Grade II listed seaside pier [1] in the civil parish of Cromer on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk, 25 miles (40 km) due north of the city of Norwich in the United Kingdom. [2]
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Cromer (/ ˈ k r oʊ m ər / KROH-mər) is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. [2] It is 23 miles (37 kilometres) north of Norwich, 116 miles (187 kilometres) north-northeast of London and four miles (six kilometres) east of Sheringham on the North Sea coastline.
[3] [6] Pictures show the building to be two-storey, with crenellated decoration. [1] After Randall's death, the building was purchased by the Board of Trade for use as a coastguard station, equipped with a rocket cart and an adjacent cannon, for the deployment of a breeches buoy. [3] This led to the building being known as Rocket House. [3]
It was the subject of the world's first webcam, created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky in 1991. To save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network.
Cromer Lifeboat station is one of the most famous of the lifeboat stations operated by the RNLI. [3] There has been a lifeboat service operated from Cromer for two centuries – predating the establishment of the RNLI. The volunteer crews at Cromer have gained a record of gallantry stretching back to the beginnings of the RNLI.
Le Françoise established his hotel to attract the visitors who were coming to Cromer in ever increasing numbers. The hotel was listed in the directory of 1836 as a "boarding house" but by 1845 [5] the venture was listed as the "Hotel de Paris" which is a sign that the establishment had grown and prospered by this date. Pierre le Françoise had ...