In our regular On This Week column, we look back through the pages of the Lynn News from March 17 – 23, 2002 as well as a picture from March 1994… One of Hunstanton’s best-loved landmarks, the helter-skelter, has been taken down from the town’s fairground after more than 40 years. The owner, William “Young Rocky” Thompson has been forced to dismantle the helter-skelter as ill-health made it difficult for him to keep it running. He told the Lynn News he was on kidney dialysis and had been unable to maintain the ride in the way it should be done for the past two years. He had taken over the ru…
