Researching further, I note that in the late Peter Brooks' book, Sheringham, Twixt Sea and Pine, he refers to 'the second Beeston Bump'. Also, in Sheringham & District by the Sheringham Museum Trust there are a couple of references to 'the second bump of Beeston Hill'.
In Face to Face, Sheringham, the story of the two local photographers, Olive Edis and Cyril Nunn, Beeston Hill is referred to as 'Beeston Bump'. So, unless anyone knows different, we Shannocks (natives of Sheringham) may continue to refer to Beeston Hill as we have always done – whether it be a bump or a hump. As for me, however, I shall always have loving memories (!) of it as Beeston Bump. In Norfolk, it is said, we 'dew diffrunt' – but in Sheringham we do doubly different, it seems!
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1/8/2018 09:23:10 am
Will always be Beeston Bump to me. I grew up with it filling the back windows of our house on Beeston Common. Your third photo shows a look-out station that appears on many postcards, the earliest that I've seen being dated 1911. From what I can make out it stood slightly down from the crest of the hill, towards the town. Unfortunately, it has been confused with the Y-service radio listening post that was built during the last war, but that was right at the top, next to the triangulation point. A building associated with it stood on the concrete plinth that can be seen to the right of your first photo.
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Stephen Cozens
5/10/2018 10:02:38 pm
As a six year old, in 1964, my grandmother would take me for a walk up what she called the Beeston Hump. My great grandfather came from Lincolnshire and moved to Norwich.
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Penny
6/9/2018 02:16:36 pm
My paternal family goes back eons in the Sheringham area and has always called them them the Beeston Humps!
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Mary Nelson
6/1/2023 12:30:51 am
My Mum always called it Beeston Hump. She originated from Hanworth. Only in recent years I’ve trained myself to now call it Beeston Bump.
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