The Custom House, King’s Lynn: The Building That Announced a Port Few buildings in King’s Lynn declare the town’s old confidence more clearly than the […]
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The 1347 Summer when Lynn Seized the Corn
Hunger on the Quay: When Bishop’s Lynn Stopped the Grain Ships A June day at the waterfront The grain was already on the move. On […]
Read moreWhen King’s Lynn Went Conkers: children, chemistry, and the work of war
King’s Lynn played a part in one of the strangest schemes of the First World War. In 1917, as Britain struggled to keep up cordite […]
Read moreKing’s Lynn and the Wool Trade: The Port That Fed Flanders
There are towns whose history can be told through a single building, a single family, or a single dramatic event. King’s Lynn is not one […]
Read moreThe Siege of King’s Lynn, 1643: Why the Town Changed Sides and Paid the Price
In the summer of 1643 King’s Lynn found itself caught in one of the sharpest local reversals of the early Civil War. A port with […]
Read moreThe Lost Market Cross of King’s Lynn: Henry Bell’s Tuesday Market Missing Centrepiece
A market monument at the heart of King’s Lynn At the northern end of King’s Lynn’s Tuesday Market Place there once stood one of the […]
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