20 May 1999 - A major engineering feat, the completion of the new pierhead lifeboat station and slipway at Cromer, was celebrated inside the boathouse with the help of the Bishop of Norwich, the Very Reverend Peter Nott, RNLI Deputy Chairman, Roly Franks, Beeston Hall school choir and 200 guests including donors and their representatives who had helped to fund the £2.8 million project..