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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 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 ]
Weybourne is a village on the coast of North Norfolk, England.The village is surrounded by arable fields, woodland and heathland; it straddles the A149 coast road, 3 miles (5 km) west of Sheringham, within the Norfolk Coast AONB.
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.
RNLB Lester (ON 1287) is the all-weather lifeboat (ALB) stationed at Cromer in the English county of Norfolk. [1] Cromer was the first lifeboat station on the east English coast to receive the latest Tamar-class lifeboat. The lifeboat became officially operational at 3:55 pm on 6 January 2008.
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]
After the closure of the lighthouse at St Agnes, Isles of Scilly in 1911, St Anthony's was (along with Cromer) one of the only major Trinity House lights still using reflectors rather than Fresnel lenses. [8] At that time it still used the same arrangement of eight lamps, providing a flash every twenty seconds. [9]
The site they selected was on the west side of Prince of Wales Road and the foundation stone was laid by Mrs Benjamin Bond-Cabbell of Cromer Hall on 3 January 1890. [3] The building was designed by George Skipper in the Queen Anne style, built in red brick with a stucco finish by Chapman and Son of Norwich and was completed later that year. [1 ...