In his weekly Turnstone column, Hunstanton writer John Maiden talks about a disaster that occurred in 1939… On this very day, 85 years ago, a fire marked the end of an era for my home town. A large crowd of locals and holidaymakers gathered on The Green around tea time on Saturday, June 11 to witness the sad end of Hunstanton’s pier pavilion. It could have been much worse, because the flames trapped two ladies and, to escape, they had to leap into the sea, which photographs suggest was only about four feet deep at the time. Although I was present and had a very good view of the events as they …