St Brendan’s Island
The legend of travelling monk, St Brendan was well known in the High Middle Ages: He set off, with followers, from Ireland in 512 for the Land of Promise. On …
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The earliest whalers
Humans have engaged in whaling since prehistoric times. Early depictions of whaling at the Neolithic Bangudae site in Korea, unearthed by researchers from Kyungpook National University, may date back to …
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Whales emerge in the Eocene
Cetaceans are thought to have evolved during the Eocene or earlier, sharing a closest common ancestor with hippopotamuses. Being mammals, they surface to breathe air; they have 5 finger bones …
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Whales return to the sea…
Early whales, living on land, begin to return to water. Whales moved freely between land and sea. Indeed, the earliest known whales, which date back as far as 50 million …
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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