\n For Simon Measures, 54, one of the last residents on Hemsby\u2019s erosion\u2011hit cliff top, the past few years have brought the gradual – and then sudden – disappearance of the community around him.\n<\/p>\n
\n Of the roughly 14 houses still standing before Christmas, only three households remain on The Marrams.\n<\/p>\n
\n The road itself now survives mostly as a name and a faint line on Google Maps.\n<\/p>\n
\n Google Maps still shows an address on The Marrams in Hemsby, while the road itself has mostly disappeared due to coastal erosion. (Image: Google Maps)\n<\/p>\n
\n Almost all of its gravel and tarmac have slipped onto the beach below, leaving only a few broken, disconnected sections.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s very sad,\u201d Mr Measures said. \u201cThe lights we used to see on at Carol Boyes\u2019 house are all gone.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Boyes, 80, left her home in early January as erosion worsened. The house has since been demolished.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s just darkness left now. It\u2019s hard to work out where things used to be,\u201d Mr Measures said.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere are only ourselves and two other households left on the Marrams. The rest are gone. The community is gone.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n A resident of the Marrams in Hemsby evacuating his home in January. (Image: Denise Bradley)\n<\/p>\n
\n The empty plots on the dunes in Hemsby where homes have been demolished. (Image: Mike Page)\n<\/p>\n
\n Over the winter, contractors working for Great Yarmouth Borough Council demolished 26 homes on The Marrams and Fakes Road that were judged to be at risk of collapsing onto the beach.\n<\/p>\n
\n The work followed a brutal season in which Hemsby lost more than 10 metres of land<\/a> and endured around half of the erosion previously forecast for the next 30 years.\n<\/p>\n \n The destruction has pushed Fakes Road – the next street inland, where houses are built of brick – onto the frontline of the village\u2019s struggle with the sea.\n<\/p>\n \n \n Elsewhere in Hemsby, sadness at the loss of homes is slowly giving way to anticipation for the summer season.\n<\/p>\n \n Councillor James Bensly, who represents the village on both the borough and county councils and runs the Beach Cafe, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve taken a severe hit this winter.\n<\/p>\n \n “People have lost their homes. My heart goes out to the unfortunate residents.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cThe government should really be picking up compensation for residents hit by erosion.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n \n The borough council said it was awaiting an update from the Environment Agency after it announced \u00a330m of new funding<\/a> in January for coastal management authorities in Norfolk, Suffolk and Yorkshire.\n<\/p>\nThe view from a back garden on Fakes Road, now the frontline in Hemsby’s struggle with the sea. (Image: Denise Bradley)\n<\/p>\n
A community on Hemsby’s crumbling clifftop has disappeared due to severe and unprecedented coastal erosion. (Image: Shaun Button\/Drone Vision Norfolk)\n<\/p>\n