Trimingham. The beach light railway. This was I think installed by the RE post-war to move dropped unexploded ordinance and leftover mines along Trimingham beach for detonation/disposal. It pops up now and again when the tides refresh the sand’s memory.

Also worth noting that lives were lost along this stretch of coast, the wiring and mining was quite dense and it’s a tricky game both finding them and moving or defusing them, the memorial to the men lost is at Mundesley on the cliff top.

In fact here it is.

It’s the thing with the bomb on it. Obviously.

And in fact here is a photo from my personal collection of one of the squads with a rather evil looking boiled out bomb. Taken 18/10/1942 in Coslany in Norwich. I have names somewhere.

From the same print set, I think this is a 500kg, would have made a bit of a mess had it had gone off. Rumour has it this was taken at Harford, another rumour is it isn’t and it’s Ipswich where some ordinance from the district was disposed of. I think it’s neither.

The reason I think it’s neither is I think it’s being winched onto a truck. The houses in the background make me wonder if this is The Avenues. Further research required.

‘He’s tweeting about bombs again mum’

Anyway. Thread done. That’s a wrap, and if you think bomb disposal is dangerous I’ve got to go to Lidl, so think again.

More on this soon as a question has now been raised about whether the railway in fact dates to the 1970s and the building on the sea defences. Which means the Norfolk Heritage Record is wrong. Ho ho.