King's Lynn snow day - November 29, 2010

After a night of snow South Quay is quiet and the river is calm, 

reflecting the clouds above.

Although sunny here, we can see that upstream
it is still snowing.

At the War Memorial the snow is still undisturbed.

At the entrance to The Walks, the snow is
already well trodden from people walking to work.

Still at The Walks.

This fountain is running, with the water frozen into icicles.
Where the sun has caught one side it is thawing, leading to
this lop-sided look.

A close up view of the frozen fountain.

Looking back at the Frozen Fountain.

It is a happy moment, with the sun breaking through
and shining on the white show.

True's Yard, King's Lynn

True's Yard is all that remains of King's Lynn's old fishing community, the North End, 

which existed for hundreds of years, and which was finally demolished in 

the clearances of the 1930’s and the 1960’s.

Please visit the website (http://www.truesyard.co.uk/index.html) for more information.

These pictures were taken during a visit on 3rd August 2010. 

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The Fisherman's Cottages - Note that these are

two cottages, each with one room

upstairs, and one down.

The cottages had no sanitation or kitchen - not the bath tub

on the wall.

Inside one of the cottages - this would have been the 

only heating inside the house

Inside the second cottage, as it would have been

set up to keep the family dry and warm

A picture of "Lol" Benefer, who lived in

this 2 room cottage and brought up 17 children. 

The staircase between floors

An original fishing boat from the 18th Century

 

Note the small amount

of space for the fishermen to walk - must

have been dangerious on the rough North Sea

The front of the fishing boat, and anchor

Interesting use of the term "Fisher Boys"
 in this 19th Century poster

A reconstruction of the scene on the old Lynn docks

A model of one of the type of boats that

sailed from Lynn into the North Sea

The old Smoke House - the last one remaining in King's Lynn

Inside the old Smoke House

Clifton House Tower, King's Lynn

Clifton House is a really old building - ith parts from the 13th century,
up the the 18th Century

Please visit their website (http://www.cliftonhouse.org.uk/) for more information.

The Owners, who are slowly restoring the building to its former glory,

open the building to visitors a few days a year - these pictures were

taken at such an open day on July 25th, 2010

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The Kitchen

Dining Room

Reception room

An upstairs hall way

The main staircase - note the moulding between the windows

The bottom of the main staircase

Modern flooring is opened to show the original tile flooring

Reception room

The tower:

One of the tower rooms with wall painting from around 1620

The Tower:

The decorations are representing tapestry, which was 

the most expensive thing to line rooms with at the time

The Tower:

One of the Tower rooms still under renovation

View from the top of the tower over the Old town of Lynn

View from the top of the tower.

Art Pics

Blue Lights

Field

Dried Out

The Strand

Rich

Dried flower

Dark

Snettisham RSPB Reserve

Snettisham Royal Society for the Protection of Birds reserve, Norfolk, UK

Welcoming committee:)

The path to the reserve is through some private fishing lakes. Note the ropes dividing the "pitches"

This is also a fishing lake, but much more open

and the birds don't mind that it's a lake for fishermen only

Further along the path, we walk alongside a lagoon, the other side of which are some beach houses

Most of the beach houses have boats, but I did think this one was rather big for such a small lagoon

We cross over the lagoon - this is looking down it's length

 towards Snettisham itself

Eventually, we reach the beach - yes, there is sea out there somewhere!

Some old sea defences show the power of the sea out here when it's not so calm as today

more sea defence remains

out past the path to the RSPB reserve, there were these old buildings..... not too sure what they are...

The RSPB lagoons

The RSPB lagoons

The RSPB lagoons

Walking on, the path takes us under an arch of trees

and then back across the lagoons towards the sea

A sea gull finds a dry spot to stand