But there is still fight in me and I will carry on until the bitter end.
Lance Martin in the aftermath of the first Beast from the East. He has been battling to save his home for three years and having pulled it back it stands on the edge again after the Easter weather was at its worst
- Credit: Archant At some point I am going to have to pull the plug but hopefully they will get the sea defences in first. It was a bit of a close call.
The gravel board marking the edge of Lance Martin s property, now facing a sheer precipice after Monday s high winds and tides.
He said he understood it to be the wreck of the fishing trawler The Unity which was sunk in 1899 after five crew were rescued by Winterton lifeboat.
The service history of the Edward Birkbeck which was saving lives from 1896 to 1924 reveal it went to the aid of the Dandy Unity of Lowestoft on November 8 1899 and that five lives had indeed been saved.
Mr Bensly, 42, who has lived in the village all his life, said he had never before seen the remains uncovered - the shifting sands already beginning to bury them once more.
The lifeboat at Hemsby is unable to launch because the beach has dropped too far in the recent storms. The pill box is a useful gauge for beach levels, which are usually considered healthy when they sit at a round a metre on top of the Second World War structure.