The Whale Workshop at The Greenland Fishery
The Greenland Fishery in the 21st Century is once again, the focus of King’s Lynn’s Whaling Industry. This time, we’re making whales not killing them. And the House plays a …
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Built in 1605…
The ‘Rennaissance House’ – Built in 1605 by John Atkin, merchant and twice Mayor of King’s Lynn, he bequeathed The House to his wife Joan in 1616, she passed it …
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Into Trusty hands…
In 1997 the entire property was transferred from the Norwich Archaeological Trust to the King’s Lynn Preservation Trust. It is now a listed Grade II*
Restoration
The Building continued to deteriorate, but only first-aid repairs were carried out, (although whilst empty it was listed as an Ancient Monument). At the end of the war negotiations were …
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The Luftwaffe hits home
A World War Two bomb, dropped from a German bomber, explodes at back of The Greenland Fishery. Beloe’s collections are removed to King’s Lynn Town Museum
The GF is divided and sold…
Thomas Aitkin ‘of London’ sold it in 1660.
The building seems to have been divided in two at an early stage, the southern portion became a public house; ‘The Fisherman’s …
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the Greenland Fishery Museum
Between 1911 and 1912 the entire buildings, including a cottage on the corner and a bakehouse at the rear, was purchased by Mr E.M Beloe a local solicitor and historian …
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Unfit for human occupation…
In 1898 the ‘Greenland Fishery Beerhouse’ was reported by the Medical Officer of Health to be unfit for human occupation.
In 1911 the Borough Surveyor served notice on the owners …
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Blown away by The Great Storm…
Great storm blows the spire off KL Minster, St Nicholas Chapel, and probably did for the top floor of The Greenland Fishery