On the evening of 28 November 1848, a Norfolk farmer put on a disguise and went to Stanfield Hall. Within minutes, Isaac Jermy and his […]
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The Bells Beneath Thieves’ Bridge
Thieves’ Bridge Road is an unsettling name for an otherwise quiet stretch of West Norfolk countryside. The road runs between Watlington and the Tottenhill area, […]
Read moreKing’s Lynn Shoplifter Shot Dead
Blood on the Cobblestones: The Night a King’s Lynn Shopkeeper Became a Killer The moonlight filtering through the broken fanlight cast eerie shadows across the […]
Read moreDeath by Eggs: Mother Gabley and the Sailors
Mother Gabley of King’s Lynn: Witchcraft, Fear and a Storm off the Norfolk Coast Among King’s Lynn’s darker fragments of memory sits the story of […]
Read moreBishop Turbe and His Lies About the Jews
The Boy, the Bishop, and the Blood Libel The story of William of Norwich, and the role played by Bishop William Turbe, reflects the twelfth-century […]
Read moreHarriet Fox: Saved By The False Hair In King’s Lynn
Saved by the False Hair: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, and Survival in King’s Lynn Victorian England, often romanticized for its elegance and propriety, […]
Read moreThe Drowning of Lizzie Green in King’s Lynn
A Tragic Tale of Love, Death, and Victorian Justice A chilling drama unfolded on a cold January night in 1889 in King’s Lynn, Norfolk. This […]
Read moreThe Mesmerising Mr Clarke from King’s Lynn
The Mesmerising Tale of Joe Clarke: From King’s Lynn to the Liverpool Gallows Joe Clarke’s story is a captivating tale of deception, hypnotism, and ultimately, […]
Read moreThe Tragic Tale of Mary Taylor from King’s Lynn
The Woman Who Was Burned Alive For Unlocking A Door In the bustling streets of King’s Lynn in 1730, a young servant named Mary Taylor […]
Read moreLynn Man’s Body Covered In Pitch
Have you ever heard the tale of Joseph Beeton, the dandy highwayman? His story is a mix of youthful charm, crime, and tragedy that captivated […]
Read moreThe Lynn Man, The Pub, and The Ruptured Spleen
There are many ways of categorising death. There are both natural deaths (from old age, for example) and unnatural deaths (such as murder). And there […]
Read moreThe Cry, The Murder, Lynn And The Bard
“Oh! my husband, my husband … At which shrill and unexpected outcry, the people about her moov’d to a strange amazement, inquired the reason of […]
Read moreKing’s Lynn Teacher Hanged
Eugene Aram – possible philandery (sex), definite philology (words), plunder, murder, and the King’s Lynn Grammar School. On 16 August, 1759, Eugene Aram, a former […]
Read moreExecutions in King’s Lynn
Many people in King’s Lynn were hanged or burned or quartered, but who were they, and what had they done? And why were their deaths […]
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