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Paul Thomas
Martin Broom, chairman of Broom Boats, at the London Boat Show in 2010
Paul Thomas remembers brilliant Brooms, builders of special yachts and motor boats and his friendship with founder Martin Broom MBE
Boats have been much of my life… the apples of my eye. Here in Norfolk, over four decades I owned a wonderful sailing yacht, then also three motor boats we took abroad as well as around the UK – all created by members of the Broom family, Britain’s oldest boat-builder, 112 years of it.
I started in boats 70 years ago - at the age of 11 on the Norfolk Broads, in a holiday hire boat.
The grandeur of Norfolk s own Downton Abbey, Costessey Hall in Old Costessey
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Some are in ruins, some are lost to time, others are guarded by ghosts: Norfolk once boasted dozens of county houses and halls, many of which fell to the wrecking ball.
Weird Norfolk has chosen 10 favourites that remain only as ruins, photographs or distant memories, including former sanitoriums and asylums, scenes of dreadful murders and homes of ghosts destined to walk the invisible corridors eternally.
Boyland Hall
There are believed to be around 200 lost villages in Norfolk and Boyland – close to Morningthorpe – is one of their number. Lost to time, only echoes of its past remain. Boyland Hall was a large Elizabethan house to the north of the village which was rebuilt in the 19th century in the Gothic Revival style but fell into disrepair after the death of its owner in 1930 and was demolished in 1947. Once a small medieval village, Boyland has been swallowed by the parishes wh
The grandeur of Norfolk s own Downton Abbey, Costessey Hall in Old Costessey
- Credit: Archant
Some are in ruins, some are lost to time, others are guarded by ghosts: Norfolk once boasted dozens of county houses and halls, many of which fell to the wrecking ball.
Weird Norfolk has chosen 10 favourites that remain only as ruins, photographs or distant memories, including former sanitoriums and asylums, scenes of dreadful murders and homes of ghosts destined to walk the invisible corridors eternally.
Boyland Hall
There are believed to be around 200 lost villages in Norfolk and Boyland – close to Morningthorpe – is one of their number. Lost to time, only echoes of its past remain. Boyland Hall was a large Elizabethan house to the north of the village which was rebuilt in the 19th century in the Gothic Revival style but fell into disrepair after the death of its owner in 1930 and was demolished in 1947. Once a small medieval village, Boyland has been swallowed by the parishes wh
Previous dishes from the popular Socius restaurant.
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The Michelin Guide was updated for 2021 on Monday, highlighting some of the stand-out restaurants around the country.
Norfolk currently has two restaurants with one Michelin star - The Neptune in Hunstanton and Morston Hall near Blakeney, while Suffolk received its first on Monday after Pea Porridge in Bury St Edmunds was given a star.
Others in the region have been awarded the Bib Gourmand rating - which celebrates those offering a good quality menu for a good price - and many given the Michelin Plate for recognition of their high-quality food.