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==Culture and community== [[File:Church Street Cromer.jpg|thumb|245px|Church Street (2021)]] For one week in August the town celebrates its Carnival Week. Attractions include the crowning of a 'royal family' including carnival queen, a street parade and a fancy dress competition. The event's 50th anniversary was held in 2019. Cromer is twinned with [[Nidda, Hesse|Nidda]], [[Germany]] and [[Crest, Drôme|Crest]], [[France]]. The town has an [[Air Training Corps]] [[Squadron (aviation)|Squadron]] and an [[Army Cadet Force]] Platoon, based at [[Cromer High School]]. The town has a Friday market and a number of independent retailers in its centre.<ref name=nccmarket /> [[Cromer Hospital]] provides services across the North Norfolk area. It includes a minor injuries unit and is run by the [[Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust]]. Cromer Museum opened in 1978 and is housed in former fishermen's cottages adjacent to the parish church on Church Street. The museum managed by [[Norfolk County Council]] contain items relating to the history of Cromer, including paintings and [[Poppyland]] china. It has two permanent galleries on the pioneering photographer, [[Olive Edis]] - Britain's first female war photographer. A mock-up of a Victorian cottage and galleries containing geology and fossil remnants of the area which include part of the [[West Runton Mammoth]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Cromer Museum|url=https://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/cromer-museum|website=Norfolk Museums|access-date=12 September 2017}}</ref>
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