The Greenland Fishery History

Whales have been hunted by humans since prehistoric times; for meat, fuel, and all sorts of other products.

Maritime industries have played a key part of King’s Lynn’s history …
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Origins

The house was built in 1605 by John Aitken, merchant and four times Mayor of Lynn. In 1660 his  grandson Thomas Aitken ‘of London’ sold it. It seems that …
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The Greenland Fishery was a Public House for some 250 years – probably from 1660’s until the early 1900’s.

FROM KLF

I think it was called the WATERMAN’S ARMS during …
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The Wall Paintings

The Paintings on the first floor of the south side of The Greenland Fishery are some of the most important and high quality secular wall paintings in …
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