We were delighted to open our new store on the site of the former Two Bears hotel recently. We’ve been trading in Great Yarmouth and Gorleston for more than 60 years and we consider ourselves part of the local community so we thought it would be great to involve the local community in helping us find a name for the iconic Bears who have for so long looked out over the Haven Bridge and the town.
We invited all Primary Schools in Great Yarmouth to enter our colouring & name the bears competition, with the winning school receiving £2500 of electrical goods of their choice from our new Hughes Plus store.
We were delighted to receive hundreds of excellent entries. Our judges, Mayor Shirley Weymouth; Anne Edwards, senior editor of the Yarmouth Mercury; Justin Taylor, MD of Graphitas and our own Robert Hughes were set the onerous task of selecting a winning entry…
Eventually, our judges made a decision on which they were all agreed. The winner was 9 year old Ella Chidlow, a pupil at Homefield Primary School in Bradwell, near Yarmouth. Ella thought that we should name the bears Nelson, in honour of the famous admiral, and Anna, after the beloved Black Beauty author Anna Sewell who was born in Great Yarmouth.
They are certainly not small bears, weighing in at over ½ ton each so it was something of a Herculean task getting them back onto their perch, guarding the entrance to the town, as our video shows.
Congratulations to Ella & Homefield Primary school and welcome home Anna & Nelson!
