The Deaf Havana album Fools and Worthless Liars featured a track called 'Hunstanton Pier', a nostalgic recollection of the town where James Veck-Gilodi, the band's lead singer grew up.
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Hunstanton railway station used to offer services to King's Lynn but was closed along with the branch line it was on in 1969.
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The lifeboat, its transporting carriage and all the stores for the new lifeboat station were transported to Hunstanton on the train with the expense being absorbed by the Great Eastern Railway Company, this being a standard practice by this company during this time period.
Opened in 1862, the station was the northern terminus of the King's Lynn to Hunstanton line immortalised by John Betjeman in the British Transport Film John Betjeman Goes By Train.
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Most through services from Liverpool Street station were withdrawn from 1959, leaving Hunstanton with mainly a DMU service to and from King's Lynn.
In 1962 the poet laureate John Betjeman visited Snettisham station as part of a 10 minute documentary film detailing the journey from King's Lynn to Hunstanton.
The brigade joined the division on East Coast Defences in June 1915 and concentrated at Hunstanton with the battery at South Creake.