Norfolk Sky View

Aerial Photographs by Mike Page

This stunning photograph of Hickling Broad was taken by  Mike Page. At the bottom left of the photograph is Candle Dyke and the River Thurne. Candle Dyke then flows into Heigham Sound, you can just make out Meadow Dyke in the middle of the picture on the right, this is the way to Horsey Mere. After Heigham Sound is Deep Dyke and White Slea then the expanse of Hickling Broad

Barton Broad, Pleasure Hill Island can be seen at the bottom left and over in the top right Barton Turf.

A few years ago Barton Broad, was dying, choked by years of enrichments from sewage pollution and agricultural run-off. This resulted in the growth of green algae which starved water plants of sunlight, and turned the water cloudy.

Clear Water 2000, which cost over £3million, began in 1995 with the dredging of 300,000 cubic metres of mud from the bed of the broad.

Clear Water 2000 has finally achieved its goal - crystal clear water.

Visitors to Wroxham are not always aware of the amount of water that surrounds them, but as you can see from this picture there is more than you may imagine. Blakes Staithe can be seen on the bottom left of the picture and opposite the home of the Connoisseur Fleet. The two large buildings on the left of the picture are Roy's department store and food hall.

Horning home of Ransome's Coot Club stretches out for over a mile along the Bure. In the distance Ranworth and Malthouse Broad.

Over Breydon Water now to the desolate Berney Arms Mill. Here two rivers meet the Yare and the Waveney on there way across the inland estuary and out to sea at Great Yarmouth.

Bramerton Woods End is a lovely place to moor and is especially popular as a last night mooring as it's only a short cruise to Brundall or Thorpe. The pub is the Woods End Tavern, to the left of the picture is the common where there are more moorings.

Thanks go to Mike Page for allowing me to use his photographs. Mike has a photo library of over 20,000 prints the majority being aerial photographs.

Items covered are the beautiful Norfolk coastline, coastal erosion, major developments, historical changes, towns, villages, The Broads and various landscapes throughout East Anglia.

If you would like to see more of Mike's photographs then take a look at his web site Norfolk Sky View