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East Dereham, Norfolk Stuff You Don't Get Anywhere Else

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• Why not mention golf clubs?? The Norfolk Golf and Country Club at Reymerstone (about 10 minutes form Dereham tonw centre) is a good golf club, with a great sports club attached. It has lots of younger members, as well as the old farts. If you have to live in the middle of Norfolk and you don't want to slaughter the wild life, why not play golf??
• Dereham is a lovely town incorporating new & old, for the different experiance go in to fantoosh hippy come new age traveller really cool three different shops in the town all selling different thing check them out, also award winning tatoo artist but you need to book for him well in advance down wellington road.
• I was there during the so-called riot that New Years Eve, it was more like hand bags at twenty paces, I've seen better punch-ups between old dears during Roys sale ! My missus and me couldn't beleive it when we heard the news the next day, that riot could have taken place in a phone box. Dereham in the 70's, now that was more like it, a sort of Dodge City of Norfolk with all the tough characters to go with it. Anyone remember the Clockwork Orange night or the annual trip to/visit from Swaffham on Xmas Eve ?
• um..nothing
• DONT CUM HERE, WE DONT LIKE OUTSIDERS.
• Dispite its' faults, I like Dereham. It's human. Of all the Norfolk towns, it is the best. After all, we could live in Chatteris, March, Wisbech...
• Aged between 14 - 26? Get a life, join DerehamYFC, see poster in Millwright Arms and other local pubs for details.
• WHO IS THE W**KER OPERATING THE CCTV ? SITTING IN PEARLS CAFE ONE SATURDAY (ON A QUARTERLY VISIT TO THE FOLKS) THE BLOKE ( OR LESBIAN ) HAD NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN HOME IN ON ANY SLIGHTLY ATTRACTIVE GIRL PASSING HIS SCREEN. PS ARE THE MAIN ROADS SO BAD INTO DEREHAM/NORFOLK AS TO KEEP PEOPLE IN OR OUT? WE WANT MOTORWAYS, WE WANT MOTOR WAYS..........................................
• The Riot of new years eve was december 31st 1988. It was going fine as everyone came out of the sunshine floors at midnight for the tradditional shaking of hands in the town square. Things got out of hand when a young guy went up the tree for the second time to get the Fairy( a twenty + year old tradition ) The police then pulled him down and set the Dogs on him. That is what sparked the riot.If Derehams finest had let it be the riot never would have happened. Just another case of Big Brother essing it up again.
• New service for East Dereham Starting 27th June 1998 Night Clubber coach service to Norwich night clubs Departing fron Dereham Market Place 8pm Saturday evenings & returning Sunday morning 0230am £7 return. This is a escorted service with a bouncer on board to stop any trouble Only bookable from Breckland Taxis office 16 Market Place opposite War Memorial or Phone 01362 698000 or Fax 01362 694493 or E-Mail uktaxinet@aol.com
• Dereham is the sort of town that only seams good when you compair it to bracknall
• Dereham Baptist Church is a happening church right now - get along there - especially in the evening = 6.30
• East Dereham certainly did make the national news throughout Britian when a New Years eve party got a little out of hand and a mini riot with the local police ensued. Several people were arrested and I believe it is now policy to remove the tree from the market square immediately after Christmas Day.
• My interests are Rollerblading and there is no where to skate!!! I think Dereham is great, if you like that sort of thing! This includes stamp collecting, old biddys with trollys that only have one wheel, also our mayor is pregnant (he is male). My bum like the old biddies fancy our luck at that hunk of a man named Ftr. Harry Wace, our local priest! Please come to visit we are all very sad as our local Gateway super market is now closed down.
• Soon there will also be a working railway with musuem too! New Years eve tradition is to pose as a fairy on the town christmas tree which induces mass riots. New drivers with Mark 2 Escorts gather in the Market Place every night and do some circuits. The worst thing about Dereham I lived there for 14 years. The best: there is a road out of there and an occasional bus too.
• Best Thing: Leaving it. It is the cess-pit of Norfolk. (Again IMO)
  I seem to remember that East Dreary-ham made the national news once. I think it was the 1984/1985 New Year. Somebody scaled the 100ft (sorry) 33.3metre Christmas tree, during a rather large disturbance in the market place. (You may want to verify that but I am certain it was Dereham)

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