title Kelling Camping and the Potty Morris Festival, Sheringham, North Norfolk - 6th July 2019 intro The Van is definitely getting good use this year as we're out once again, this time to Kelling Heath campsite - one that's not exactly cheap, but easily has the best facilities of any campsite in the area, including - to the joy of the boys - an on-site stone-baked pizza emporium. The campsite, as well as being in a particularly pictureque part of North Norfolk, is also adjacent to the North Norfolk Railway, and so we get the steam train from Kelling Halt into Sheringham, where it happens to be the "Potty Morris Festival" of Morris dancing, complete with lots of Hip-Hop-style Morris battles going on in the streets. Then, on Sunday, Nosher heads back early via train and bike, starting from Kelling Halt. It didn't turn out to be the steam train as hoped, but an old-enough two-coach Diesel Multiple Unit rumbles up to the halt. It goes from Kelling to Sheringham, where the Morris thing is still occuring, and from there it's a regular crappy Sprinter to Norwich, and after that - keeping up the vintage railway thing as they're about 30 years old - it's an inter-city Class 90 to Diss, and finally a 2.5 mile bike ride back home. Epic. imgp0847 We head off to the club house imgp0848 Fred plays Spit again as Harry looks on imgp0850 The boys run around with excitement about pizza imgp0851 Time for pizza imgp0853 It's a bit wet as we wander to Kelling Halt imgp0854 Kelling Heath Park platform imgp0856 Waiting for trains in the rain imgp0858 Isobel teaches the "owl hoot" thing imgp0859 Another group photo on the platform imgp0864 The kids flag down the train, as it's a request stop imgp0869 The little train pulls in imgp0871 The engineers bring the train to a halt imgp0872 The train stops imgp0873 The driver looks back imgp0874 Fred points around in the Mark 1 TSO coach imgp0877 90775 at the engine sheds imgp0884 On the platform at Sheringham imgp0889 On the buffers imgp0895 Number 564 0-6-0 light engine at Sheringham imgp0896 Train drivers and steam imgp0899 Engine 564 steams away imgp0903 564 changes tracks imgp0907 Steam under the bridge imgp0908 There's a vintage bus outside the station imgp0910 A packed Fore Street in Sheringham imgp0914 On Fore Street, there's a dude with a small owl imgp0915 The watchful eyes of an owl imgp0925 The first of many Morris dancers imgp0928 There's bit of a "Handmaid's Tale" thing going on imgp0935 A Morris dancer looks at something imgp0937 There's a dance-off going down imgp0948 Some Morris lads have a beer imgp0949 The boys look forlornly at a closed-down model shop imgp0955 Some very purple Morris dancing occurs imgp0958 A nice retro mural on the chip shop wall imgp0959 The site of the legendary Sheringham Sink Hole imgp0964 Dancing with sticks imgp0968 Jeremy Corbyn is on accordion (not really) imgp0971 A dance concludes imgp0974 Green feathery dancers imgp0984 There's an actual bassoon in the Morris band imgp0985 More stick action imgp0987 Green face paint and pheasant feathers imgp0988 Dancing on Fore Street imgp0991 We have fish and chips down on the promenade imgp0992 The gang sit on a painted sea wall imgp0993 A pigeon on a windowsill imgp0994 Brutalist concrete wall and a very derelict café imgp0995 Megan wanders off with the empties imgp0997 Sheringham's sea defences imgp0998 Fred considers his drink imgp1000 Fred and Alice scale the sea wall imgp1004 Messing with sabre-tooth tigers imgp1007 Harry pauses for a drink under Sheringham's slogan imgp1009 It's hard to tell what's real and what's painted imgp1010 A fisherman brings his boat in imgp1018 Fishing boats on the beach imgp1020 The fisherman's slipway at Sheringham imgp1024 Fishing boats on the beach imgp1029 The children stand on a railing imgp1030 Colourful changing rooms imgp1031 Anna on the roof of a beach shelter imgp1034 Harry and Isobel in a 1960s concrete shelter imgp1039 Harry looks at a toy thing imgp1041 Rusty nails in a beach hut imgp1044 On the promenade at Sheringham imgp1048 Running around like lunatics imgp1049 One man and his dog imgp1050 One the sea wall again imgp1051 Harry looks up at the others, as he can't climb up imgp1053 Some nice rust going on imgp1055 There's a good crowd still watching the singing imgp1057 The band does its thing imgp1060 A lone Morris plays drums outside Sainsbury's imgp1063 Outside Starling's Nesagent imgp1064 Isobel chooses a festival hat imgp1066 A Morris dancer with shiny gold shades imgp1070 There's a puppy in a pram imgp1071 The owl dude is on the move imgp1073 The sad sight of shut-down model shop imgp1080 Some Dennis the Menace Morris dancers imgp1084 A very risque greengrocer imgp1085 A vintage Routmaster bus in wedding ribbons imgp1090 A nice old vintage ECW coach loads up imgp1091 D6732 - the ancient Class 37 Diesel loco imgp1095 D6732 with 2P12 head code at Sheringham imgp1100 Fred points to some spare seats imgp1101 A "Harry Potter" compartment in an FK Mark 1 coach imgp1105 Class 08 shunting engine D3935 imgp1106 Class 37 D6732 on the platform at Sheringham imgp1108 The cab of D6732 imgp1109 A brake wheel in a Class 37 cab imgp1111 Vulcan Riders are out on display imgp1115 Alice sticks her head out of the compartment imgp1118 A conductor roams around with a lantern imgp1119 Harry looks sad imgp1125 A pile of derelict signalling boxes imgp1134 Weybourne station - Dads' Army filming location imgp1135 A standard lantern at Weybourne imgp1136 A pigeon takes flight at Weybourne imgp1137 The other platform at Weybourne imgp1138 Do not lean out of the window imgp1139 A nice First Class Mark 1 coach compartment imgp1146 The conductor sees us off at Kelling Heath imgp1148 Rings of rain on the pond imgp1153 We look into a pond imgp1157 Fred inspects an epic bug hotel imgp1158 Some kind of bee does its thing imgp1159 The campsite clubhouse bar imgp1160 We have a barbeque imgp1163 Harry does some of his Ninja moves on the barbeque imgp1167 Harry in a tree imgp1170 Fred waves whilst up a tree imgp1171 Harry in a tree again imgp1172 Alice and Fred imgp1177 The kids do marshmallows on a stick imgp1184 A very bold pigeon pokes around imgp1186 The next morning is sunnier imgp1187 The view of the wind turbines out to sea imgp1190 A steam train heads up to Weybourne Station imgp1192 Nosher's two-coach DMU trundles up the line imgp1196 In the old-school guard's van imgp1197 It's full house on the train imgp1201 The train looks like a bus on the inside imgp1204 The 1959 Diesel DMU at Sheringham imgp1205 There's more purple Morris going on imgp1230 Hankerchief Morris imgp1243 Men in kilts imgp1249 Down at the "other" Sheringham Station imgp1250 Another vintage loco of sorts: a 1990 Class 90 imgp1252 The Class 90/Mark 3 Intercity heads off to London imgp1255 One of GA's brand-new Stadler FLiRTs imgp1257 A Mark 3 DVT at Crown Point depot imgp1259 The River Wensum at Trowse Bridge imgp1260 The Tarmac depot near Trowse Bridge imgp1262 Derelict warehouse in Trowse imgp1264 "Shook" graffiti