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

Market Day

Tuesday Market...

...on a sunny Tuesday...

... not as busy as it sometimes is...

...it is a general market, lots of different sorts of stalls...

...although clothing and fruit/veg are the main ones...

... a friendly veg stall...

...and a couple of stalls selling local fish...

... and all I can say is...

I am the walrus!

Oddities

This really is the post box for the Probation Service .....

Pilot Street

Pilot Street is just a small road off of Tuesday Market Place, but it has a charm of its own:

Round the corner...

I assume this cottage once belonged to the church.

Lot of contrasts in style for such a short terrace of houses

This might even be Mediterranean! 

A old shop front, perhaps?