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Our Activities

The Society is represented on the Borough Council’s Conservation Areas Advisory Panel (CAAP). An example of our input via CAAP and regular meetings with council officers is the adoption of the new green and gold colour scheme of Hunstanton’s street furniture.

The Society also regularly works with King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council and is involved with its review of Hunstanton’s conservation area that will be passed to public consultation. It is concerned with recommending appropriate changes and identifying elements that should be afforded special protection in the interests of preserving Hunstanton's Heritage in perpetuity.

Past achievements:
  

A Heritage Trails leaflet was produced and published in 2005 by HCS to enable residents and visitors to understand and appreciate the history of Hunstanton.
(please go to publications for more information)
  
   
The Society replanted The Garden of Rest at St Edmund’s Chapel near the lighthouse. It was originally created to commemorate local men who fell in action during the First World War and included a seat in memory of Edith Cavell who was shot for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.
  
   
One of our initiatives in 2007 was the placing of plaques on buildings of importance to the heritage of Hunstanton and Old Hunstanton.
(please go to publications for more information)
 
   
Latest activities: The Society has created seven interpretation boards which are located around Hunstanton, informing visitors and residents of the history of the town in relation to the buildings they see on the boards.