The Greenland Fishery

With thanks to King’s Lynn Online

1000 to 1499

• 1086 – First mention of Lynn in Domesday Book.
• 1101 – St Margaret’s Church founded.
• 1204 – First Borough charter from King John.
• 1216 …
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21°, the day after the royal wedding and the scene was well set for socialising and celebrating King’s Lynn’s history on ‘Hanse Day’. Among the visitors were a family from …
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From 26 May – 10 June 2018 is Open Studio fortnight – an opportunity to see art, buy art and meet the artists, with over 250 studios to visit …
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The marks above the fireplace in the south part of the Greenland Fishery are very distinct and look like simple graffiti, or maybe carpenter’s marks. But it’s been suggested they …
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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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