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History Galleries

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The Scott Gallery

Clement Scott
The Miller's daughter Louie Jermy
Louie Jermy's cottage disappears with the 1972 cliff slump
Louie Jermy's Cottage in Sidestrand
The Miller Alfred Jermy's farmhouse

The Pleasaunce Gallery

The Pleasaunce - Original Entrance from Cromer Road (High Street) Photo F J Fowler
Plan accompanying the particulars for the auction of The Pleasaunce
The Gate House in Paul’s Lane which Lord Battersea designed himself and had built especially for the American poetess, the Honourable Emily Lawless. Photo T Richards
The Pleasaunce - Brick loggia by Lutyens
The Pleasaunce - Detail of part of the Sunken Garden
The Pleasaunce - Entrance to The Pleasaunce. These lovely walls and gates are not attributed to Lutyens
The Pleasaunce - south elevation. Photo F J Fowler
The Pleasaunce - Detail of the entrance paving
The property particulars for the auction of The Pleasaunce
Aerial picture of the Pleasaunce. Taken before many of the houses in Cliff Road and The Londs were built.
The Battersea Coat of Arms. With the motto, “ God tendeth the flowers”. Whether this was meant to be a pun has never been established. Photo T Richards
The Pleasaunce - Stable Yard Clock Tower
The Pleasaunce - Servants quarters and main entrance
The Pleasaunce - The Cloisters. Photo T Richards

Lord Battersea Gallery

Lord Battersea was buried in what was at the time the rather romantic churchyard that surrounded the ivy clad ruins of St. Martin’s church.
Painting of Lord Battersea by Frederick Sandys c.1877
Lord Battersea's Obituary

Overstrand Hall Gallery

Overstrand Hall - From the south-east. Photo F J Fowler
Overstrand Hall - East elevation. Photo F J Fowler
Overstrand Hall - Detail of staircase and panelling
Overstrand Hall - South elevation

Sea Marge Gallery

Sea Marge c.1930 - taken from the footpath along the cliff top
Sea Marge from the gardens, prior to being changed back into a hotel. Photo T Richards 1995
Dr Barrett’s house ’The Gables’ showing the chimneys added to match those of Sea Marge. Photo T Richards
Sea Marge following major extension work, although the new chimneys have yet to be added to 'The Gables' to the right
Sir Edgar Speyer
Probably the original size of Sea Marge
Advertisement announcing the opening of Sea Marge as a hotel in 1935
Sea Marge prior to being changed back into a hotel. Photo T Richards 1995
Sea Marge's magnificent 'Elizabethan style' chimney pots
Sea Marge c.1930 - The house has been extended on the right, to join up to the Gables and a wing has been added to the left.

Other Poppy-land Properties Gallery

The White Horse Hotel c.late 1950s showing most of its former grounds. Photo courtesy of Sarah Childs nee Betts
The Overstrand Cricket Ground's thatched pavilion
Sir Frederick Macmillan owner of Meadow Cottage
Carrwood House c.1911 Today it is difficult to recognise it from either Carr Road or Mundesley Road. Now converted into flats
Meadow Cottage. Seaside home of Sir Frederick Macmillan. Photo T Richards
The beautiful entrance to what was Lord Battersea’s private cricket ground.
The first hotel in Overstrand - Engadine, now all converted into apartments, including the former Singing Kettle Café.
Advert for the White Horse Hotel and the best lock up garages in Overstrand
Grangegorman c.1911 - home of Edward Lyttelton
Peartree Cottage, The Londs c.1905. Pictured are Gilbert Beckett, John Bullimore and Ben the dog. Note spelling of Lond(e)s - an old english word meaning 'land'
Interior of the village stores c.1940 Photo courtesy of Ian Keymer
Biography of George Beckett - postmaster, businessman and author
Advert for St Mary's Nursery Hotel
Advert for The Engadine hotel
The Engadine Hotel in what, at the time of the photograph, was Cromer Road.
Biography of Edward Lyttelton - Headmaster of Eton and owner of Grangegorman
The village stores c.1940 Photo courtesy of Ian Keymer
Main Road showing former Engadine Hotel converted to a post office, an estate agency and the people on the left are walking passed Barclays Bank which opened once a week.
The Methodist Church designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and built in 1898
East Lodge - one of the oldest buildings in Overstrand. Photo T Richards

The Lost Poppy-land Properties Gallery

Plan showing Overstrand Hotel. The hotel and all but one of the houses to the right have been lost to the sea.
Danish Pavilion - enlarged and re-erected in Overstrand
Overstrand Hotel c.1950 - Showing all that remained after the 1947 fire
Overstrand Hotel - viewed from the High Street c.1906
Danish Pavilion - an illustration of the original building shown in Paris 1900
Overstrand Hotel 1899. Elevation to the road. Taken from the original plans.
Overstrand Hotel - Still open for business but the tennis courts and terraces have gone
Everything to the right of the red arrow have gone - hotel, houses and land

The Churchills Gallery

Pear Tree cottage. One of Lord Battersea’s properties. Note the ‘Flower’ emblem in place of a window
The First Sea Lord and his wife on the beach at Overstrand
Winston Churchill First Sea Lord, on board the Admiralty yacht HMS Enchantress

Churches Gallery

An early photograph of the two churches, note in the photograph above the absence of a street light and no notice board and the ivy growth is not so rampant
St Martin's - present day
A view of the two Churches before the trees in Northrepps Road blocked the view
St Martin's basking in the sunshine - present day
A view of the two Churches before the trees in Northrepps Road blocked the view
The ruined, ivy-clad second St.Martin's Church to the right, with Christ Church on the left. Photograph pre-1911
In this photograph the ruins of St Martin look ready to collapse and the land in the foreground does not appear to have been adopted yet as a public graveyard

Old Maps and Plans Gallery

Plan of the Overstrand Railway station
Plan of the boundary changes made to Overstrand, Sidestrand, Northrepps and Cromer
Faden's map of Norfolk (part) 1794
1902 Building Plan. Drawing by Francis Haynes
The Norfolk Hundreds
The 1888 plan of the Overstrand Estate development

The Belfry Gallery

Rule 1 - Mornings
The Belfry School
The inscription on the tablet in the school
The School Rule Book
Pupils and staff
Mr Lambert and pupils

Other Historical Images Gallery

Main Road Overstrand from the north
Overstrand beach and gangway
Miss Hemsby and other boats on the gangway
Overstrand cliffs and beach 1890
Lady Battersea (third from the left) in the Parish Hall with staff and convalescing servicemen
Seaview Terrace - now part of Harbord Road
The Londs 2000. Pictured is Joyce Richards
Main Road Overstrand 1965 - now the High Street. Who are the cyclists in this photograph?
Cliff Tunnel to Beck Hythe. Watercolour by Edward Pocock 1880
Overstrand Fisherman 1932 - L. Cork, T. Cork, and J. Paul
Overstrand fisherman Billy on the left and ‘Terrible’ Cork on the right, showing their impressive squid catch in 1938
The beach gangway
Harbord Road present day
Overstrand beach and cliffs 1890
Gunton Terrace
Last Train leaving Overstrand
Cromer Road Overstrand - now the High Street
Harbord Road 1888 Lord Battersea purchased the 2 cottages to the left, in the distance
The Londs c.1906
Main Road East Overstrand - might seem strange today until one remembers that Suffield Park to the west was formerly part of the Parish of Overstrand.
Villagers celebrating Christmas 1937 in the Parish Hall
Main Road Overstrand from the south
Same old Overstrand Fisherman’s yarns?


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