In his weekly Turnstone column, Hunstanton writer John Maiden discusses the after-effects of the loss of a town’s district council in the 70s… In 1974 Hunstanton Urban District Council ceased to exist and nearly all of the town’s most valuable assets were transferred to a new local authority serving the whole of West Norfolk. The name given to this fledgling council was ‘West Norfolk District Council’, but by 1981 the name had changed to the present, rather cumbersome title of the ‘Borough Council of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk’ (BCKLWN). How anyone should think this change of name was appropri…
