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Around North Norfolk - Langham Dome and Burnham Overy Staithe

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Over the course the August Bank Holiday, while staying near Holt in Norfolk we made a couple of trips to Burnham Overy Staithe with the kayak. The sky often threatened rain which never came but gave good lighting conditions. Burnham was busy but we took the kayak down to where the inlet met the open sea and the waves were breaking. The first three pictures are of Langham Dome, built in 1942/3 to train pilots for fighting in the second world war. Moving images were projected on the interior wall of the dome and the trainees tried to 'shoot' them down. The airfield at Langham has gone - Bernard Matthews found the tarmac a good base for turkey sheds. The dome was decommissioned in the fifties and went into disrepair but was saved by an enthusiastic team of volunteers and opened to the public this year. I could not resist a multiple exposure of the building. The last three pictures are from my phone of the edge of the sandbank where it meets the sea, the rest are taken with a DSL