Our lads with singers Kystun Wolfe and Billie Davis do a Sunday seaside date at Hunstanton's Princes Theatre, which gushes thusly: "The Rapiers are recognised for their perfection personified performances as they capture the essence of what made the original Shadows so special."
By way of local background, Squidoo's Hunstanton entry offers additional enlightenment:
Hunstanton's history goes all the way back to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age, seeing an Anglo-Saxon settlement and local activity by the Iceni and the Romans. The ruins of St Edmunds Chapel lie in Hunstanton and date back to 1270. Named after the first patron saint of England, Edmund was crowned the king of East Anglia in 856 AD, having landed at Hunstanton as a young 14-year-old Saxon on Christmas Day in 855 AD.In 1845 Henry Styleman Le Strange began efforts to develop a coastal holiday village on an undeveloped part of his estate. The first building to be erected was the New Inn, now the Golden Lion, which became locally known as "Le Strange's Folly".
Best seen on that page is Sir John Betjeman's dear train ride, matchless commentary and arrival from nearby King's Lynn. "Here we are, straight as a die, heading for the terminus. If the diesel goes too fast, we'll go right through the barrier, out through the hotel and into the sea."
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