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In his weekly Turnstone column, Hunstanton writer John Maiden shares winter memories on the town’s former boating lake… A few days ago I was walking along the road that runs between the back gardens of cottages in Seagate Road and what used to be Hunstanton’s fantastic boating lake, which opened in 1932 and coincided with an extension to the South Promenade. A local historian, the late Mary Rhodes recalled in her book, “A Hunstanton Miscellany” how, before the boating lake, there was just grass and sand dunes between the back gardens of Seagate Road and the beach. The first thing that struck m…

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