Hemsby

[@jojo55508]

There are no words to describe how sad this makes me feel. Thinking of everyone affected in Hemsby. Thank you for posting. I hope it helps spread how much they need support.

[@TheEutopiasanquez]

This video is both extremely sad and absolutely amazing. Thank you for doing this. Our poor street needs all the help it can get 😭😭😭

[@michaeltreadwell777]

WOW, that was BRILLIANT ! The atmospheric music was perfect. To see the drone footage like that just shows how the erosion is eating away at the coastline. Sadly, nature will ALWAYS win, but that's what nature is all about. This video deserves some sort of award - it really IS that good. Thanks for sharing it with us. Take care 🙂

[@alimcnally5722]

Heartbreaking really feel for the people who have lost there homes 😢 been coming to hemesby since little xx

[@rel46]

thank you. It made me cry - I was there just last week visiting family that live in Hemsby. Spent a lot of time hiking/running up and down the valley and beaches and it really gave a poignant perspective. Thinking of Lance and all the other people that have been impacted by this.

[@tinatina1104]

Used to come every year, booked three chalets for us all with the kids . Club was fun, lots of places to eat, reasonable prices. Fish shop caught fire one year. Chinese take away and Indian, fantastic. Gift shops, one gentleman was there for years in the gift shop st the end of the path before we went to the beach. Deck chairs and ice creams. Man who rented the deck chairs out all summer had an amazing tan. Amusement arcades just like the ones we had as kids. Will never forget those wonderful times.

[@peterlockyear2763]

Mother nature will not be beaten. When human kind is dead and gone, mother nature will fill the void. We won't be here to see it, but life will go on. We take up but the blink of the eye in real time.

[@ovaltvswaffham4132]

This is very sad to see what the sea is doing to Hemsby.

[@tomatobrush3283]

Most other countries government take measure to prevent erosion. It seems the UK government likes to encourage it, so that they can blame climate change.

[@carlgrove8793]

That is frankly ridiculous. It is vulnerable places like Hemsby that are naturally going to be affected by climate change first. Once the Antarctic sea ice has melted a lot more places will be facing this. I did holiday in Hemsby in July and it was a very worrying situation. Only safe access to the beach is now via "the Gap" which is literally the one 20 foot gap in the cliff remaining. There are masses of concrete blocks and ironworks holding back some very big waves. (I got a lot of dramatic photos.)

[@MrGarry1972]

Fantastic video thanks for sharing ❤

[@David-xp7sr]

At one time the dunes were growing not receding and there are many that believe that this has been caused by the Dutch dredging at sea and removing the material that used to replenish the beach to, ironically, build their sea defences. Certainly the old WW2 tank traps that I remember as a child became covered by sand and have only now resurfaced.

[@royfearn4345]

What is Dutch dredging?

[@danlowe8684]

You nailed it. The offshore mining of 100s of millions of tons of aggregate and the development of the land above have combined to increase the rate of erosion.

[@msbecks7004]

Where are the groynes?

[@bigs31uk]

Im sure if loads of people each season in the summer put money into boxes throughput hemsby and winterton and newport and further down to yarmouth donation boxes towards a sea defence to be made then maybe a chance to save further houses being destroyed.its a lovely place.visited 4 times and this june.

[@pdtech4524]

Such a shame so many homes are vulnerable to the sea! Nicely documented I'm sure this video will have some historical value in the future. I've added your channel, hopefully you'll connect with another drone pilot?

[@tutts999]

I have photos of me as a lad in the 70's on that beach and must have been 100 yards from the sea to the dunes. So sad to see it like this.

[@stephenashpole6982]

We had a caravans on seabreeze late 60s to mid 70s. You are correct the beach was so much bigger, I'm sure the wartime pillbox defence structure was nestled in the dunes?? Its now in the sea!! We visited hemsby a couple of times this year it is so sad to see this erosion ,have to see it to realise

[@stephenboyd4934]

I had a chalet in that area in the 90's for several years, there was then a life guard boat & ramp, but that was staring too go then

[@johnnewby2001]

Mother Nature will always win

[@wilfredzielinski5685]

i would like to like this video but its so sad to see the place i loved when i was a child going to the sea R.I.P hemsby

[@Elaine-zn5yw]

Is great Yarmouth itself safe from erosion

[@strokevitch]

Hi, very nice video shot ! Can I use it for a non-commercial educational project to raise awareness about mass wasting including of course your channel name and details ? Thank you.

[@greatyarmouthnorfolk1896]

Hello, you can use the video for whatever you would like.

[@strokevitch]

@@greatyarmouthnorfolk1896 wonderfull thanks a lot !

[@krakatoa1200]

My Cousin lives in Hemsby, obviously all the villagers are deeply concerned about the rate of the erosion

[@kevanparker908]

I think they should experiment with planting in the dunes and sand, I am thinking of the rapid growing Bamboo or Japanese knotweed, some thing that will fight the sea and erosion!

[@suewoodford7595]

Such a shame...always loved Hemsby...had lots of family holidays there..

[@patrickward8144]

I just cannot believe how many bungalows we've stayed over the years have been lost to the sea, including the Marrams road😭

[@BrendaBensley]

Hemsby sea front is soooo sad to see, We lived on longbeach estate. Please keep safe

[@radiobits444]

OMG i cannot believe where the pillar box is now. That was next to the dunes last time I saw it on the beach.

[@jimcrawford5039]

Happening here in Australia too, it’s ironic that people will pay a fortune to live so close to the sea!

[@mirek5242]

piękna okolica,,

[@tonyluxton3726]

Excellent video so sad to see Hemsby like this. A go fund me page needs starting for Sea defence work If every holiday maker put £2 in the jar instead of the slots it would make a good start. I’d gladly contribute been going there for 40 years

[@chrisquirke5235]

Best believe if sting or bono lived there there'd be something done about saving 5his beautiful scenic town ,sad.

[@lt7756]

How deep is the drop where the Lifeboat is lanched?

[@amyclingo4286]

I believe they said about 9ft

[@hughmarcus1]

Have the authorities decided to ‘let nature take its course’

[@cannyexplorer5357]

Now in Dec 2023 to see how much more of this coastline has gone. Some of those homes at the beginning of the video are now being removed. I would be worried if I lived in any of the houses much further back too.

[@PatFalconer-hn2hl]

So very sad 😢

[@YEWGYZE]

Excellent video . Nicely shot and great choice of music . Shame about Hemsby, used to go there for holidays in years gone by .

[@uksewingmachineservice7030]

Very nice video mate really bad there now great flying Don 🤠🇬🇧👍👍👍🤶🎄 I have sub

[@wahidkhaliq4776]

Our British government don’t seem to care about these neglected and beautiful places and it’s good folk . I’m so sorry for your heart break I know what it’s like to lose your home 😟🙏🏽

[@JohnDoe-mf1jy]

Hemsby has to be the nicest place we have ever visits in our 30 years as a couple so so sad to see goverment not doing nothing

[@jimcrawford5039]

Cant expect the nations taxpayers to pay for it!

[@stephenboyd4934]

My parents used to own a newly built bungalow in that area in the 90's, should think the prices are on the decline, as who would pay a lot of money for a property close too the sea

[@shirleydrury5565]

Christ sack these are working class peoples homes. What if it was your home. They pay there taxers come on the government should be held to account .so so sad so much for Great Britain we should be looking after are own . I’m fed up with all this helping over seas when are own people and children need help. Christ sack people of u.k make a bloody stand.

[@jamielaw3881]

So sad 😢When I was a kid I used to jump off the Pillar box onto soft sand with at least 50 meters before I got to the sea such a shame, Hope they put up sea defences before it all goes 👍👍❤️

[@whoyou77]

Same thing I use to do.

[@shirleydrury5565]

So sad. If it was part of the royal estate they wound have done something about it along. Time ago😢😢

[@t5jerry]

at this rate , a few BIG storms over the next 5-10 years and the amusements and buildings currently NEAREST the sea will be gone........................

[@norbertasstankus1594]

I am very sad 😢

[@alanfizzypop9607]

Not an easy one as if you prop up sea defences in Hemsby the sea will look elsewhere and great yarmouth just down the coast that had terrible floods in the 50s could be her next victim

[@johnnewby2001]

Ex Merchant seaman 25 years A now what the sea can do

[@lynseysteward5938]

💔

[@christopherforster6555]

Disgusting not a groin in site this is completely unnecessary.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

'_Groyne_' ... (Not "groin", which is part of our body, _not_ a part of a sea defence system) 🧡🖖

[@johnnewby2001]

The price you pay for a sea view