Editing Hunstanton (section)

==Theatre, cinema and culture==
The Princess Theatre is a 472-seat, year-round venue for shows from comedy to drama, music for all tastes, and children's productions. It also has a six-week summer season and an annual Christmas pantomime. Films are screened in the week. Opened as the Capitol Cinema in 1932, it is noted for its Norfolk [[Carrstone|carr]] stone construction, of which it contains the largest gable wall in existence. It was designed as a theatre as well as a cinema, but closed in the 1960s and was sold in 1974. It reopened as the Kingsley Centre for summer seasons and films for about two years, but declined into a bingo hall before closing again. The Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk purchased it in 1981, and in honour of [[Lady Diana Spencer]], who married the Prince of Wales in July 1981, it was renamed the Princess Theatre and officially re-opened on 5 July 1981.

Hunstanton Concert Band plays in and around Hunstanton at a wide variety of venues including churches, fêtes, concerts and the town's bandstand. The [[Deaf Havana]] album ''[[Fools and Worthless Liars]]'' featured a track called "Hunstanton Pier", a nostalgic recollection of the town where James Veck-Gilodi, its lead singer, grew up.

===Literary associations===
[[File:Wreck of the Sheraton - geograph.org.uk - 1553402.jpg|thumb|Wreck of the ''Sheraton'']]
Between the world wars, [[P. G. Wodehouse]] often visited his friend Charles Le Strange at [[Hunstanton Hall]]. It influenced a number of locations in his comic novels, as [[Aunt Agatha]]'s country seat Woollam Chersey and the inspiration for the setting for [[Money for Nothing (novel)|''Money for Nothing'']] (1928). The octagon in the garden featured in [[Very Good, Jeeves|"Jeeves and the Impending Doom"]]. Norfolk also furnishes names for many of Wodehouse's characters, such as Brancaster, Jack Snettisham and J. Sheringham Adair.

[[L. P. Hartley]] knew the Hunstanton neighbourhood from childhood holidays and used it as a setting for ''The Shrimp and the Anemone'' (1944), the first novel in his Eustace and Hilda trilogy. It is at Hunstanton Hall, fictionalised as Anchorstone Hall, that Eustace enters the privileged world of the aristocracy and eventually inherits a small fortune. The layered chalk, red chalk and carr-stone cliffs at Hunstanton provide a backdrop for Eustace and Hilda's games among the rock pools.

[[Patrick Hamilton (writer)|Patrick Hamilton]]'s novel ''[[Hangover Square]]'' opens with George Harvey Bone walking on the cliffs in Hunstanton. Hamilton lived for many years at Martincross in [[Sheringham]] and spent time in the 1930s in a cottage in [[Burnham Overy Staithe]], with his first wife, Lois.