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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]
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.
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 ...
Throughout the 20s and 30s the Cromer Protection Commission toured the South Coast looking at potential shows. In 1936 one of the theatres most famous shows appeared-Ronnie Brandons Out of the Blue. At the outbreak of World War II the Royal Engineers removed the middle section of the pier and shows ceased for the rest of the war.
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.
Cromer was the only sizeable Trinity House lighthouse to make use of town gas as an illuminant [11] (though it was also used for the minor lights at Blacknore and Northfleet). [12] The old reflector array was adapted, with upright low-pressure Welsbach burners installed in the reflectors in place of the old Argand lamps. [ 11 ]
The Edwardian Hotel started out as the Cliftonville boarding house [5] and was designed in 1894 by the architect Augustus Frederick Scott [6] for William Churchyard of Westbourne House, West Street, Cromer.