Norfolk Coast Photographic Memories

Francis Frith started his photographic business in the 1870s, seeing an opportunity to sell souvenir photographs to holiday visitors.  He soon employed teams of photographers around the country and soon started producing postcards.  After his death in 1899, his sons, and later his grandson, took on and developed the business.  The business continued until 1969 when it finally closed, but the amazing archive of over 300,000 images was saved, and now, almost 50 years later is in the final stages of being digitized and made widely available through the publications and websites of The Francis Frith Collection.

Norfolk Coast Photographic Memories is a collection of vintage photographs of locations all along the Norfolk Coast, from King’s Lynn in the west to Gorleston on the border with Suffolk, taken at various times of the twentieth century.  Places featured include:

Bacton
Blakeney
Brancaster
Burnham Deepdale
Burnham Market
Burnham Overy Staithe
Caister-on-Sea
Clenchwarton
Cley next the Sea
Cromer
East Runton
Gorleston-on-Sea
Great Yarmouth
Happisburgh
Heacham
Hemsby
Holkham
Hopton on Sea
Horsey
Hunstanton
King’s Lynn
Morston
Mundesley
Old Hunstanton
Overstrand
Paston
Salthouse
Sea Palling
Sheringham
Sidestrand
Snettisham
Stiffkey
Thornham
Trimingham
Wells-Next-The-Sea
West Runton
Weybourne
Winterton-on-Sea
Wolferton