The Greenland Fishery | One of King’s Lynn’s oldest jettied timber-framed buildings
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A whale, lost in Lynn, 1842
“… an enormous whale, which had apparently fallen asleep…”
An anonymous account of a whale in King’s Lynn’s water
LynnWhale-Story-1867
Port of Kings Lynn 11th April 1867
On …
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Notes on the Arctic Whale-Fishery from Yarmouth and Lynn
Thomas Southwell FZS V-P
From Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists’ Society, 1908
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Aitkin… A Jacobean family affair
William Atkin, Mayor of King’s Lynn. Image: Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk
John Atkin’s name is on a blue plaque outside the Greenland Fishery …
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Steve Worfolk’s map of ‘The Friars’ c1905
Steve Worfolk’s map of The Friar’s 1905
Drawn in 2001, shows the river Nar and it’s environs, as it probably was, with his family’s boat yard, the Blubber House and …
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“The town bells were rung…”
On the return to Lynn of a large Whaler, after an Arctic voyage From The Lynn Advertiser, 1872
As is generally known, in that day (c.1820) there were what were …
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