Follow us on Twitter
My Tweets-
Recent Posts
- Depositions: Uncovering the lives of ordinary Norfolk people through church court records January 20, 2021
- St Andrew’s County Asylum portrayed in the Cartoons of George Yates January 9, 2021
- A Variety of Ways to Celebrate Christmas: Exploring the many Christmases of Hilda Zigomala December 24, 2020
- Stepping Back In Time December 16, 2020
- Golden Balls of Aylsham: A Shining Example of a Funny Name December 5, 2020
Categories
Tags
- architectural plans
- Boer War
- bombing raids
- Caley's
- census
- charters
- children's activities
- christmas
- conservation
- Cromer
- diaries
- diary
- digital preservation
- digitisation
- Eccles
- Eccles church
- education and outreach
- exhibition
- family history
- First World War
- great yarmouth
- Great Yarmouth Martime Festival
- hall books
- Heritage Lottery Fund
- hilda zigomala
- illustration
- India
- internship
- isinglass
- journal
- king's lynn borough archives
- Kings Lynn
- learning
- letters
- Lowestoft
- maps
- marriage
- marriage licence bonds
- Meet the Team
- memoirs
- newspapers
- norfolk
- Norfolk Heritage Centre
- norwich
- Norwich landmarks
- oral history
- parchment
- parish
- photography
- probate
- pubs
- quarter sessions
- refugees
- research
- school
- school workshops
- Second World War
- Sound Archive
- St Andrew's Hospital
- Strangers
- The National Archives
- tours
- traineeship
- Transforming Archives
- travel
- UEA
- UnlockingOurSoundHeritage
- UOSH
- Victorians
- volunteering
- volunteers
- witchcraft
- women
- WW2
- Wymondham
Archives
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- July 2014
Tag Archives: Kings Lynn
The Cinemas of King’s Lynn from the Building Control Plans
The King’s Lynn Borough Archives hold the building control plans for the old Borough Council of King’s Lynn from 1883 up to 1960. The plans from 1960 to 1974 were sadly lost during the flood of the 1978. The plan … Continue reading
King’s Lynn’s trading links with Europe: King’s Lynn and the Hansa
(Or, in a travesty of the old saying, Hansa is as Hansa does) Over time, King’s Lynn’s trading links with Europe have developed and evolved and continue to do so today. Records held in the King’s Lynn Borough Archives can … Continue reading
Posted in NRO Research Bloggers, Snapshots from the Archive
Tagged agreements, Disputes, Freemen, hall books, Hanse, king's lynn borough archives, Kings Lynn, letters, merchants, trade
1 Comment
William Curtis: an 18th century farmer, debtor and habitual complainer
Corruption always tends to capture our interest- reading the tabloids indicates that- and it is very easy to identify what looks like corruption when we research documents from the past. We tend to forget that in previous centuries different rules … Continue reading
The Angel Inn of King’s Lynn
It sometimes seems strange- though on second thoughts it’s only to be expected- how researching one topic recalls previous ones, with one thread leading to another, then another, until they are all intertwined. While browsing the records at King’s Lynn … Continue reading
King’s Lynn’s burning issue
Much has been said about King John, and he is frequently named as Bad King John, although it has to be said it was John who granted various concessions to Lynn, and indeed its charter. But there was among his … Continue reading
A Murderer in the School: The case of Eugene Aram of King’s Lynn.
When I was a kid in Bradford, one of my favourite weekend outings was to York. Among its attractions was the Castle Museum and the condemned cell, where I first came across the story of Eugene Aram. At that time, … Continue reading
Robert Henry Bollin: One Man’s Impact on Life in 19th Century King’s Lynn
Written by Christine Shackell In July 2018, Stories of Lynn museum hosted an exhibition on the life of Robert Henry Bollin, 1812-1885. His story had been unearthed during family history research and showed how, by searching beyond dates of birth, … Continue reading