King's Lynn
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Majestic Cinema
Wonderful memories of Saturday morning pictures - we would all line up outside the Majestic Picture House as it was called and monitors would walk up and down the line to make sure we were not too noisy and kept us in our place, for sixpence we would see cartoons and a feature film, cowboys or my favourite Flash Gordon, always a cliff hanger ending that brought you back the following week to see if he made it, which he always did, wonderful times, and I'm sure our parents loved Saturday mornings also, got us out of their hair for a few hours, money well spent.
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My Christening
On the 1st August 2006 I went to Kings Lynn for the first time since 1935, to visit St Margaret's Church. I was christened there 5th February 1935. My Grandfather lived at 14 Priory Lane Kings Lynn. Is there anyone who knew the Crook Family from that time? Noel Crook
Contributed by Noel Crook
Norfolk memories
Majestic Cinema
Wonderful memories of Saturday morning pictures - we would all line up outside the Majestic Picture House as it was called and monitors would walk up and down the line to make sure we were not too noisy and kept us in our place, for sixpence we would see cartoons and a feature film, cowboys or my favourite Flash Gordon, always a cliff hanger ending that brought you back the following week to see if he made it, which he always did, wonderful times, and I'm sure our parents loved Saturday mornings also, got us out of their hair for a few hours, money well spent.
A memory of King's Lynn contributed by First name Last name
My Christening
On the 1st August 2006 I went to Kings Lynn for the first time since 1935, to visit St Margaret's Church. I was christened there 5th February 1935. My Grandfather lived at 14 Priory Lane Kings Lynn. Is there anyone who knew the Crook Family from that time? Noel Crook
A memory of King's Lynn contributed by Noel Crook
Extracts From King's Lynn & Norfolk books
The first avenue of trees was planted
in the park during 1753. In the 19th
century, fungus started to attack the
elm and ash trees, and in August
1891 an ancient mulberry tree
planted by monks from Blackfriars
Monastery blew down. Flowerbeds
have been planted where some trees
once grew.
An extract from from"King's Lynn Photographic Memories".
Fit men who were claiming
poor relief provided the
labour which helped to
redevelop The Walks. This
area dates back to the
Middle Ages. This gate was
manned for almost twenty-
four hours, and was used to
collect tolls from visitors and
merchants on their way
through to the town. During
the Black Death, it was
locked at night in an attempt
to keep out unwanted
criminals or those who it was
thought might be carrying
the plague.
An extract from from"King's Lynn Photographic Memories".
Built in Ketton stone and
opened in 1685, this famous
building (by Sir John Turner,
based on a design by Bell) was
shared by merchants dealing on
the lower floor and HM
Customs on the first floor.
Outside the entrance, a strict-
looking customs official is
keeping his eagle eye on the
photographer as well as on the
fishing boats, which were often
used for smuggling tobacco,
wines and spirits.
An extract from from"King's Lynn Photographic Memories".
Lynn’s market place is one of the very finest in England, enriched by a profusion of Georgian and Victorian public buildings, including the florid Corn Exchange built in 1854. This scene would have changed little over many hundreds of years: farmers’ wives travelled in by pony and trap to sell their fresh fruit and vegetables, and market traders shouted for business from below colourful awnings.
An extract from from"East Anglia".
This winter view of the chapel
makes it look like a prison rather
than the fascinating building it is.
Robert Corraunce built it on
instructions from the prior of
Lynn. It has an inner core divided
into three stories, and around this
core is an outer enclosing wall
with a staircase in between.
Above this there is a cross-
shaped ashlar building in Ancaster
stone. In this picture we can see
new stone on the buttresses; they
were repaired in 1809 by Major
George Edwards.
An extract from from"King's Lynn Photographic Memories".