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Museums Attractions In Norfolk

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Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the northwest, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea and, to the north-west, The Wash. The county town is Norwich. With an area of 2,074 square miles and a population of 859,400, Norfolk is a largely rural county with a population density of 401 per square mile . Of the county's population, 40% live in four major built up areas: Norwich , Great Yarmouth , King's Lynn and Thetford .The Broads is a network of rivers and lakes in the east of the county, extending south into Suffolk. The area is not a...
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  • 1. The Royal Station Wolferton
    Prince John of the United Kingdom was the fifth son and youngest of the six children born to King George V and his wife, Queen Mary. At the time of John's birth, his father was the Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, King Edward VII. In 1910, George succeeded to the throne upon Edward's death and John became the fifth in line of succession. In 1909, John was discovered to have epilepsy. As his condition deteriorated, he was sent to live at Sandringham House and was kept away from the public eye. There, he was cared for by his governess, Lala Bill, and befriended local children whom his mother had gathered to be his playmates. Prince John died at Sandringham in 1919, following a severe seizure, and was buried at nearby St Mary Magdalene Church. H...
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  • 2. RAF Air Defence Radar Museum Horning
    The Royal Air Force Air Defence Radar Museum is a museum on the site of the former Royal Air Force radar and control base RAF Neatishead, close to the village of Horning in Norfolk, England. The museum's exhibitions cover the history of air defence in the United Kingdom, in particular the development of radar from the 1930s until the end of the Cold War. The museum includes a complete Cold War-era Operations Room from which the air defence of Britain was conducted for several decades, as well as many examples of original radar and communications equipment, and an exhibit of a Royal Observer Corps Nuclear Reporting Post. There is also a gallery devoted to the history of the nearby RAF Coltishall. The Museum is largely staffed by volunteers, many of whom served previously in the RAF. The Mus...
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  • 4. The 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum Diss
    The term Link Trainer, also known as the Blue box and Pilot Trainer is commonly used to refer to a series of flight simulators produced between the early 1930s and early 1950s by the Link Aviation Devices, Inc, founded and headed by Ed Link, based on technology he pioneered in 1929 at his family's business in Binghamton, New York. During World War II, they were used as a key pilot training aid by almost every combatant nation. The original Link Trainer was created in 1929 out of the need for a safe way to teach new pilots how to fly by instruments. Ed Link used his knowledge of pumps, valves and bellows gained at his father's Link Piano and Organ Company to create a flight simulator that responded to the pilot's controls and gave an accurate reading on the included instruments. More than 5...
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  • 5. RNLI Henry Blogg Museum Cromer
    The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, as well as on some inland waterways. There are numerous other lifeboat services operating in the same area. Founded in 1824 as the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, the RNLI was granted a Royal Charter in 1860. It is a charity in the UK and in the Republic of Ireland. Queen Elizabeth II is Patron. The RNLI is principally funded by legacies and donations, and most of the members of its lifeboat crews are unpaid volunteers. The RNLI has 237 lifeboat stations and operates 444 lifeboats. Crews rescued on average 22 people a day in 2015. RNLI Lifeguards operate on more tha...
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  • 8. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Norwich
    The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts is an art gallery and museum located on the campus of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. The building, which contains a collection of world art, was one of the first major public buildings to be designed by the architects Norman Foster and Wendy Cheesman, completed in 1978. The building became grade II* listed in December 2012.
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  • 9. Time and Tide Museum Great Yarmouth
    Time and Tide: The Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, located in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom, is set in one of the UK's best preserved Victorian herring curing works and is Norfolk's third largest museum. The museum is centred on Great Yarmouth's rich maritime and fishing heritage, mainly focusing on the history of Yarmouth and the herring curing works. The museum feature various exhibitions including a typical 'Row' from 1913, a Yarmouth quayside from the 1950s and hands on displays, films, audio guides and children's activities. The museum is currently visited by around 30,000 people a year. Time & Tide museum is part of Maritime Heritage East which is a partnership of over 35 maritime museums in the East of England.
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  • 10. Dad's Army Museum Thetford
    The Dad's Army Museum is a museum located in Cage Lane in Thetford in Norfolk dedicated to the popular BBC comedy series Dad's Army, many of the outdoor locations for which were filmed in the local area. The museum is housed in the old fire station at the rear of Thetford Guildhall, which itself stood-in for Walmington-on-Sea Town Hall in several of the episodes. It is run by volunteers who, throughout the year, attend many 1940s events in East Anglia with Jones' van.
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  • 11. The Mo, Sheringham Museum Sheringham
    The Mo Sheringham Museum is a museum in the town of Sheringham, Norfolk, England. The current museum opened in April 2010 and replaced the former collection which was housed in converted fishermen's cottages behind the main street. The name Mo comes from a little girl who lived in Sheringham over 130 years ago and the museum tells her story and those of other Sheringham people.
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  • 12. Charles Burrell Museum Thetford
    The Charles Burrell Museum is a museum in Thetford in Norfolk dedicated to steam power and steam transport. The museum opened in 1991 in the former Paint Shop of Charles Burrell & Sons, which is grade II listed, on Minstergate in Thetford. The collections tell the stories of the Charles Burrell Works, a company which at one time employed 350 people who worked there until business closed in 1928, and the steam-powered engines they produced and which sold around the world. Displays include a Charles Burrell and Sons Ltd steam roller, traction engine and a Showmans Road Locomotive, parts of Burrell engines, factory machinery, agricultural equipment and items linked to the Burrell Family. The original plans to many of the Burrell engines are held privately by the Palmer family of Haughley in S...
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  • 13. Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History Fakenham
    Fakenham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It is situated on the River Wensum, about 19 miles north east of King's Lynn, 19 miles south west of Cromer, and 25 miles north west of Norwich.The civil parish has an area of 3.49 sq mi and in the 2001 census had a population of 7,357 in 3,292 households, the population increasing to 7,617 at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.The name Fakenham is Saxon, possibly meaning Fair Place/Place on a Fair River, or Hamlet on the river Fa/Fair .
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  • 14. Lydia Eva Steam Drifter Great Yarmouth
    The Lydia Eva is the last surviving steam drifter of the herring fishing fleet based in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. The Great Yarmouth herring fleet had made the town the major herring port in the world in the early part of the 20th century. She is listed as part of the National Historic Fleet.
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