Sunbeam Alpine Owners Club East Anglia Area
The SAOC is the club for owners & enthusiasts of the Sunbeam Alpine, the classic British sports car from the 1960s.
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Gressenhall Museum of Norfolk Rural Life at Dereham was a really good place to start the tour and they made us very welcome.
The route took us North, past Fakenham and on to Docking in North Norfolk. Still heading North, we passed over Barrow Common and down to the seaside town of Brancaster Staithe.
Heading East on the coast road our next stop was the Lord Nelson pub in Burnham Thorpe where we had lunch on the grassy bank by a pretty stream, right in front of the Lord Nelson pub (then called The Plough’) where the great man used to drink ale over two hundred years ago. An idyllic setting and much enjoyed by everyone.
Back up to the coast road, through Wells and Holkham and past Holkham Hall to Stiffkey, where low & behold the road was closed by the Police due to a medical emergency! A few mobile phone calls later we managed to circumvent the road block and motored through Cley and Salthouse to Weybourne, where we left the coast road and headed inland to Weybourne Station on the North Norfolk Railway. They were holding a Vintage Transport weekend, so we joined them and were rewarded with two steam trains at once! The older males were seen to be sniffing the air and making remarks like “now, that’s what trains should smell like”.
Having played ‘railway children’ we headed South on our last lap to the Thursford Collection of fabulous steam traction engines, Victorian roundabouts and Wurlitzer organs where we ended the tour.
We have had many emails of appreciation for a great classic car day out.
The route took us North, past Fakenham and on to Docking in North Norfolk. Still heading North, we passed over Barrow Common and down to the seaside town of Brancaster Staithe.
Heading East on the coast road our next stop was the Lord Nelson pub in Burnham Thorpe where we had lunch on the grassy bank by a pretty stream, right in front of the Lord Nelson pub (then called The Plough’) where the great man used to drink ale over two hundred years ago. An idyllic setting and much enjoyed by everyone.
Back up to the coast road, through Wells and Holkham and past Holkham Hall to Stiffkey, where low & behold the road was closed by the Police due to a medical emergency! A few mobile phone calls later we managed to circumvent the road block and motored through Cley and Salthouse to Weybourne, where we left the coast road and headed inland to Weybourne Station on the North Norfolk Railway. They were holding a Vintage Transport weekend, so we joined them and were rewarded with two steam trains at once! The older males were seen to be sniffing the air and making remarks like “now, that’s what trains should smell like”.
Having played ‘railway children’ we headed South on our last lap to the Thursford Collection of fabulous steam traction engines, Victorian roundabouts and Wurlitzer organs where we ended the tour.
We have had many emails of appreciation for a great classic car day out.
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to whom we offer our grateful thanks.
to whom we offer our grateful thanks.
