We head off to the club house
Kelling Camping and the Potty Morris Festival, Sheringham, North Norfolk - 6th July 2019
The Van is definitely getting good use this year as we're out once again, this time to Kelling Heath campsite - one that's not exactly cheap, but easily has the best facilities of any campsite in the area, including - to the joy of the boys - an on-site stone-baked pizza emporium. The campsite, as well as being in a particularly pictureque part of North Norfolk, is also adjacent to the North Norfolk Railway, and so we get the steam train from Kelling Halt into Sheringham, where it happens to be the "Potty Morris Festival" of Morris dancing, complete with lots of Hip-Hop-style Morris battles going on in the streets. Then, on Sunday, Nosher heads back early via train and bike, starting from Kelling Halt. It didn't turn out to be the steam train as hoped, but an old-enough two-coach Diesel Multiple Unit rumbles up to the halt. It goes from Kelling to Sheringham, where the Morris thing is still occuring, and from there it's a regular crappy Sprinter to Norwich, and after that - keeping up the vintage railway thing as they're about 30 years old - it's an inter-city Class 90 to Diss, and finally a 2.5 mile bike ride back home. Epic.
next album: A Postcard from Boxford and BSCC at Pulham, Suffolk and Norfolk - 13th July 2019
previous album: GSB and the Gislingham Fete, Suffolk - 29th June 2019
Fred plays Spit again as Harry looks on
The boys run around with excitement about pizza
Time for pizza
It's a bit wet as we wander to Kelling Halt
Kelling Heath Park platform
Waiting for trains in the rain
Isobel teaches the 'owl hoot' thing
Another group photo on the platform
The kids flag down the train, as it's a request stop
The little train pulls in
The engineers bring the train to a halt
The train stops
The driver looks back
Fred points around in the Mark 1 TSO coach
90775 at the engine sheds
On the platform at Sheringham
On the buffers
Number 564 0-6-0 light engine at Sheringham
Train drivers and steam
Engine 564 steams away
564 changes tracks
Steam under the bridge
There's a vintage bus outside the station
A packed Fore Street in Sheringham
On Fore Street, there's a dude with a small owl
The watchful eyes of an owl
The first of many Morris dancers
There's bit of a 'Handmaid's Tale' thing going on
A Morris dancer looks at something
There's a dance-off going down
Some Morris lads have a beer
The boys look forlornly at a closed-down model shop
Some very purple Morris dancing occurs
A nice retro mural on the chip shop wall
The site of the legendary Sheringham Sink Hole
Dancing with sticks
Jeremy Corbyn is on accordion (not really)
A dance concludes
Green feathery dancers
There's an actual bassoon in the Morris band
More stick action
Green face paint and pheasant feathers
Dancing on Fore Street
We have fish and chips down on the promenade
The gang sit on a painted sea wall
A pigeon on a windowsill
Brutalist concrete wall and a very derelict café
Megan wanders off with the empties
Sheringham's sea defences
Fred considers his drink
Fred and Alice scale the sea wall
Messing with sabre-tooth tigers
Harry pauses for a drink under Sheringham's slogan
It's hard to tell what's real and what's painted
A fisherman brings his boat in
Fishing boats on the beach
The fisherman's slipway at Sheringham
Fishing boats on the beach
The children stand on a railing
Colourful changing rooms
Anna on the roof of a beach shelter
Harry and Isobel in a 1960s concrete shelter
Harry looks at a toy thing
Rusty nails in a beach hut
On the promenade at Sheringham
Running around like lunatics
One man and his dog
One the sea wall again
Harry looks up at the others, as he can't climb up
Some nice rust going on
There's a good crowd still watching the singing
The band does its thing
A lone Morris plays drums outside Sainsbury's
Outside Starling's Nesagent
Isobel chooses a festival hat
A Morris dancer with shiny gold shades
There's a puppy in a pram
The owl dude is on the move
The sad sight of shut-down model shop
Some Dennis the Menace Morris dancers
A very risque greengrocer
A vintage Routmaster bus in wedding ribbons
A nice old vintage ECW coach loads up
D6732 - the ancient Class 37 Diesel loco
D6732 with 2P12 head code at Sheringham
Fred points to some spare seats
A 'Harry Potter' compartment in an FK Mark 1 coach
Class 08 shunting engine D3935
Class 37 D6732 on the platform at Sheringham
The cab of D6732
A brake wheel in a Class 37 cab
Vulcan Riders are out on display
Alice sticks her head out of the compartment
A conductor roams around with a lantern
Harry looks sad
A pile of derelict signalling boxes
Weybourne station - Dads' Army filming location
A standard lantern at Weybourne
A pigeon takes flight at Weybourne
The other platform at Weybourne
Do not lean out of the window
A nice First Class Mark 1 coach compartment
The conductor sees us off at Kelling Heath
Rings of rain on the pond
We look into a pond
Fred inspects an epic bug hotel
Some kind of bee does its thing
The campsite clubhouse bar
We have a barbeque
Harry does some of his Ninja moves on the barbeque
Harry in a tree
Fred waves whilst up a tree
Harry in a tree again
Alice and Fred
The kids do marshmallows on a stick
A very bold pigeon pokes around
The next morning is sunnier
The view of the wind turbines out to sea
A steam train heads up to Weybourne Station
Nosher's two-coach DMU trundles up the line
In the old-school guard's van
It's full house on the train
The train looks like a bus on the inside
The 1959 Diesel DMU at Sheringham
There's more purple Morris going on
Hankerchief Morris
Men in kilts
Down at the 'other' Sheringham Station
Another vintage loco of sorts: a 1990 Class 90
The Class 90/Mark 3 Intercity heads off to London
One of GA's brand-new Stadler FLiRTs
A Mark 3 DVT at Crown Point depot
The River Wensum at Trowse Bridge
The Tarmac depot near Trowse Bridge
Derelict warehouse in Trowse
'Shook' graffiti
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We head off to the club house
We head off to the club house
Fred plays Spit again as Harry looks on
The boys run around with excitement about pizza
Time for pizza
It's a bit wet as we wander to Kelling Halt
Kelling Heath Park platform
Waiting for trains in the rain
Isobel teaches the 'owl hoot' thing
Another group photo on the platform
The kids flag down the train, as it's a request stop
The little train pulls in
The engineers bring the train to a halt
The train stops
The driver looks back
Fred points around in the Mark 1 TSO coach
90775 at the engine sheds
On the platform at Sheringham
On the buffers
Number 564 0-6-0 light engine at Sheringham
Train drivers and steam
Engine 564 steams away
564 changes tracks
Steam under the bridge
There's a vintage bus outside the station
A packed Fore Street in Sheringham
On Fore Street, there's a dude with a small owl
The watchful eyes of an owl
The first of many Morris dancers
There's bit of a 'Handmaid's Tale' thing going on
A Morris dancer looks at something
There's a dance-off going down
Some Morris lads have a beer
The boys look forlornly at a closed-down model shop
Some very purple Morris dancing occurs
A nice retro mural on the chip shop wall
The site of the legendary Sheringham Sink Hole
Dancing with sticks
Jeremy Corbyn is on accordion (not really)
A dance concludes
Green feathery dancers
There's an actual bassoon in the Morris band
More stick action
Green face paint and pheasant feathers
Dancing on Fore Street
We have fish and chips down on the promenade
The gang sit on a painted sea wall
A pigeon on a windowsill
Brutalist concrete wall and a very derelict café
Megan wanders off with the empties
Sheringham's sea defences
Fred considers his drink
Fred and Alice scale the sea wall
Messing with sabre-tooth tigers
Harry pauses for a drink under Sheringham's slogan
It's hard to tell what's real and what's painted
A fisherman brings his boat in
Fishing boats on the beach
The fisherman's slipway at Sheringham
Fishing boats on the beach
The children stand on a railing
Colourful changing rooms
Anna on the roof of a beach shelter
Harry and Isobel in a 1960s concrete shelter
Harry looks at a toy thing
Rusty nails in a beach hut
On the promenade at Sheringham
Running around like lunatics
One man and his dog
One the sea wall again
Harry looks up at the others, as he can't climb up
Some nice rust going on
There's a good crowd still watching the singing
The band does its thing
A lone Morris plays drums outside Sainsbury's
Outside Starling's Nesagent
Isobel chooses a festival hat
A Morris dancer with shiny gold shades
There's a puppy in a pram
The owl dude is on the move
The sad sight of shut-down model shop
Some Dennis the Menace Morris dancers
A very risque greengrocer
A vintage Routmaster bus in wedding ribbons
A nice old vintage ECW coach loads up
D6732 - the ancient Class 37 Diesel loco
D6732 with 2P12 head code at Sheringham
Fred points to some spare seats
A 'Harry Potter' compartment in an FK Mark 1 coach
Class 08 shunting engine D3935
Class 37 D6732 on the platform at Sheringham
The cab of D6732
A brake wheel in a Class 37 cab
Vulcan Riders are out on display
Alice sticks her head out of the compartment
A conductor roams around with a lantern
Harry looks sad
A pile of derelict signalling boxes
Weybourne station - Dads' Army filming location
A standard lantern at Weybourne
A pigeon takes flight at Weybourne
The other platform at Weybourne
Do not lean out of the window
A nice First Class Mark 1 coach compartment
The conductor sees us off at Kelling Heath
Rings of rain on the pond
We look into a pond
Fred inspects an epic bug hotel
Some kind of bee does its thing
The campsite clubhouse bar
We have a barbeque
Harry does some of his Ninja moves on the barbeque
Harry in a tree
Fred waves whilst up a tree
Harry in a tree again
Alice and Fred
The kids do marshmallows on a stick
A very bold pigeon pokes around
The next morning is sunnier
The view of the wind turbines out to sea
A steam train heads up to Weybourne Station
Nosher's two-coach DMU trundles up the line
In the old-school guard's van
It's full house on the train
The train looks like a bus on the inside
The 1959 Diesel DMU at Sheringham
There's more purple Morris going on
Hankerchief Morris
Men in kilts
Down at the 'other' Sheringham Station
Another vintage loco of sorts: a 1990 Class 90
The Class 90/Mark 3 Intercity heads off to London
One of GA's brand-new Stadler FLiRTs
A Mark 3 DVT at Crown Point depot
The River Wensum at Trowse Bridge
The Tarmac depot near Trowse Bridge
Derelict warehouse in Trowse
'Shook' graffiti