The lawns of St James’ Park cover one of King’s Lynn’s former burial grounds. Men, women, and children still lie beneath the grass, but the […]
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Two Lost Inns of the Tuesday Market Place
Walk across the Tuesday Market Place from the Duke’s Head to the Corn Exchange and you pass between the sites of two vanished inns. The […]
Read moreRobert FitzWalter: The Baron Who Defied King John
In the summer of 1216, soldiers supporting a French claimant to the English throne descended on Bishop’s Lynn. They captured townspeople, carried prisoners away and […]
Read moreThe Gate That Stood in the Way: A History of King’s Lynn’s East Gate
According to one of King’s Lynn’s most persistent stories, the East Gate met its fate because Catherine the Great bought too much art. In 1779, […]
Read moreFramingham’s Almshouses: the King’s Lynn charity with two founders
Framingham’s Almshouses in King’s Lynn stand beside The Walks, near the meeting of London Road and St James’s Road. Their quiet nineteenth-century buildings conceal a […]
Read moreHow Lynn’s Merchants Helped Finance Edward III and the Start of the Hundred Years’ War
In April 1337, Thomas de Melchebourn of Bishop’s Lynn supplied four anchors, three cables, and rope for one of Edward III’s great ships. Two months […]
Read moreWhy Elizabeth I and Charles II Look Down from King’s Lynn Town Hall
A royal puzzle above the doorway Stand in Saturday Market Place and look up at the entrance porch of King’s Lynn Town Hall. High on […]
Read moreLocked in Prayer: Anchorites and Hermits in Medieval Lynn
Medieval Bishop’s Lynn was not a quiet place. It was a port, market town and pilgrimage crossroads, with ships moving along the haven, carts passing […]
Read moreFrom hidden Catholics to public processions: the story of Roman Catholics in King’s Lynn
For centuries after the Reformation, Roman Catholics in King’s Lynn were easy to miss. They had no grand medieval parish church at the centre of […]
Read moreRefugee in King’s Lynn Minster: Naomi Blake’s Quiet Monument
Refugee in King’s Lynn Minster: Naomi Blake’s Quiet Monument in the Holy Trinity Chapel Finding the sculpture If you make your way beyond the choir stalls […]
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