Talk:King's Lynn

Apostrophe

I've seen spellings of King(')s Lynn, both with and without the apostrophe. Which is actually correct? (It's been a long time since I was in the area so I can't just check a street sign. ;-) It was originally named Bishop(')s Lynn, which is more likely to indicate the possessive form... but I'm not sure. Kinitawowi 15:01 02 Aug 2004 (BST)

I'm a local and I've always been taught that the town's name is spelt with the apostrophe, however due to the modern world we live in, people just get lazy about it. Istabo 00:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Apostrophe required

As the name comes from royal possession, it should have the apostrophe, but not even the road signs are consistent. Many computer systems seem unable to cope with the apostrophe and people are terrible with possessives, so that's probably why it's so common without.

Even today, I get mailmerged letters with the S capitalised... how do these people cope with the really strange place names like Westward Ho! and similar?

Interesting question: what will happen to the name after the revolution?

I'm a local, and I can assure you it's with the apostrophe. However, I do understand that some people are just bone idle (Frequent of people from King's Lynn) and choose to leave it out. Paul Norfolk Dumpling 12:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Walpole

Walpole is listed as a famous resident, on the strength that he was MP for King's Lynn...this seems potentially problematic - very often MPs in the unreformed parliament had no connection whatsoever to their constituency. William Pitt the Elder certainly didn't live in Old Sarum. john k 00:14, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

CCTV

When did King's Lynn get its first municipal CCTV system? I know it was an "early adopter", but can someone provide the actual date? --80.3.179.56 14:36, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

1987, according to this :) Collard 16:38, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Entertainment

I put this section in because I think that it is something worthy that people want to read about. Not many people know King's Lynn if they're not local... Istabo 16:54, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

I think that the Festival Too content should be expanded into its own article. I'm drafting one here: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User:Robertshippey/Festival_Too Robertshippey (talk) 14:07, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Hanseatic warehouses in Lynn

It would be nice to have pictures taken to illustrate the article and Steelyard, Hanseatic League.--Kresspahl 09:29, 18 August 2007 (UTC) I have inserted the existing Hanseatic warehouses JPG and moved the associated paragraph to a more appropriate location.Greenpenwriter (talk) 16:24, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

1708 Hanging

The article notes [citation needed] for the claim that an 11 year old girl was hung for theft in 1708. The following link makes reference to this event:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/20711/The-Bloody-Code (on page 11 of 25 within that site).

That website references a 1907 book which is said to document the event. The name of that book does not appear to be mentioned.

The source lists the victims as 11 year old Ann Hammond and her 7 year old brother Michael Hammond. The execution date noted is Wednesday, September 28, 1708. As of this writing, we are approaching the 300th anniversary of that sad day.

While there were many hangings in those days, the referenced source notes that these may be the two youngest persons ever executed in England. Wekeypedia (talk) 13:00, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

King's Lynn Branch Motor Neurone Disease Association

Hi,

I've had the two links placed here removed, something about 'advertising'?. I have added a link to our website because we are local to King's Lynn and I would like to raise awareness to MND (also known as ALS in the USA) and help people affected in the local area !!!. The last thing i want to do is 'advertise' and i thought just adding a link and description would be OK.

I feel offended that you think I would just add links for the fun of it, please would you reconsider adding a link on this page and also one on 'norfolk' to our website?

thank you. regards Steve Webmaster www.mndlkingslynn.org —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mndkingslynn (talk • contribs) 00:54, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

One has to read WP:ORG as to charities. - Adam37 Talk 10:47, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

DTZ Marina report

I have tracked down and referenced the DTZ report which has been recently been quoted in the article. However, I don't think the report is noteworthy enough to warrant being the subject of its own paragraph; especially since the topic of the report (the viability of the marina project) is not mentioned in the paragraph. Instead I think the report should be used to improve sections on the economy, the marina and perhaps elsewhere. Alanpritt (talk) 17:15, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Walter Dexter

I've added Walter Dexter to the list of notable people. Unfortunately he doesn't as yet have a wikipedia page of his own.Greenpenwriter (talk) 10:24, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Local Beardie fashion

Theres a weird fashion, that I accidentally started, of owning bearded dragons. Should this be put on this article? Kaasci (talk) 18:03, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

No, it's not notable. But good luck with it as a hobby. Euryalus (talk) 20:44, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

merger

Dear Users I have merged List of events in King's Lynn to this article .The merger was proposed since May 2010 on the page category "Articles to be merged from May 2010".List of events in King's Lynn consisted of year of major events in King's Lynn.Anyone who feels that List of events in King's Lynn should be a separate article can create it providing necessary reasons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skr15081997 (talk • contribs) 07:38, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Notable person to add to the page - Karl Penhaul

He's a journalist - with CNN I think. He was embedded with the armed forces in the (second) Iraq war I think.

He needs to have a Wikipedia article before being added to this page. Whether he qualifies as notable can be gleaned from Wikipedia:Notability (people).Charles (talk) 10:49, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Notable person to add to page - James Eldridge

I think the name is james Eldridge. He was convicted of spying for the Russians in the early 1980's.

He went to King Edward VII school in the late 1970's. I think he ended up working for the MOD - certainly for an organisation with access to classified documents. He sent a photocopy of the cover page to the Russian embassy to try and get a deal where they would pay him. In order to signify their interest, the embassy was asked to place an ad in The Times which said something like "Spider, we love you. Mum." This happened. He was caught before he actually handed over any secrets. He was found guilty. I seem to recall that at the time the stories talked about him being a rebel at school and singing in a band where the most popular song was something like "I don't want to go to war." This is all 30 years ago so my memory is a bit hazy.

I've googled for this but can't find anything. I guess it is sitting in the Lynn News & Advertiser archives but hasn't been digitised and put on the web.

School merge

I have suggested that Eastgate Academy should be merged to here as it is a non-notable primary school, as per WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES. Any comments appreciated. CalzGuy (talk) 13:09, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

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List of Events (removed from article)

This is just - as it states - a random list of events in the town. It serves no purpose except to offer the casual reader a list of historical Trivia.

List of events

Year	Event
1085 1101	Lynn Parish mentioned in Domesday book as modest village with many Saltings. The Bishop of Norwich gives the people of Lynn the right to hold weekly markets and annual fairs
1204	King John gives Bishop's Lynn a charter (a document granting the town certain rights)
ca 1220	Great Ouse redirected by flood and human hand to have a new outfall at Bishop's Lynn
1348	Bishop's Lynn is a large and important town with a population of 5,500-6,000. Wool, grain and salt are exported and pitch, fish and iron are imported
1406	St George's Guildhall is built
1475	The Hanseatic Warehouse is built
1485	Red Mount Chapel is built
1500	Bishop's Lynn declines in importance although the port is still busy
1524	Bishop's Lynn is given a corporation and a mayor
1534	A grammar school is founded
1537	The king takes control of the town from the bishop. From then on it is known as King's Lynn
1572	Thatched roofs are banned to reduce the risk of fire
1605	Greenland Fishery House is built
1643	During the civil war, King's Lynn is captured by a parliamentary army
1665	Plague strikes
1683	The Custom House is built
1708	Two children are hanged for stealing a loaf of bread
1720s	Daniel Defoe describes King's Lynn as 'Beautiful, well built and well situated'
1784	The first bank opens
1801	The population is 10,096
1832	Cholera strikes
1835	The Lynn and West Norfolk Hospital opens
1847	The railway reaches King's Lynn
1861	The county court is built
1869	Alexandra Dock is built
1883	Bentinck Dock is built
1904	A museum opens
1905	A public library opens
1910	The first cinema opens
1962	It is decided King's Lynn should be an overflow town for London
1972	Gayton Road Fire Station moves to the brand new site on Kilham's Way
1982	Lynnsport opens
1991	True's Yard Fishing Museum opens
1992	The Town House Museum opens
2008	Seahenge wooden circle is put on permanent display at the museum
2015	A second fire station is opened by the Queen on Horsleys Fields, South Lynn

Most of the events there are not trivia. The Hanseatic League for example will be important in the town's history. It needs to be written as prose with decent citations.Charles (talk) 12:30, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Village with similar name in Sweden

In Sweden there is a village and a parish with a similar name, Kungslena, https://sv.wiki.x.io/wiki/Kungslena_socken,

The name Kungslena means Kings-Lena, where "Kings" states that it was part of the kings domains and was added already in the middle ages. "Lena" goes back to an old Norse word "len" referring to the slopes of the hills where the village is located. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.254.151.136 (talk) 21:07, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Article lead

This is rather a nice article, with decent sourcing and appropriate images. But, for me, it's rather let down by the lead. This is only two sentences long, and the second of these is a list of the town's distances from a random list of other places. Why on earth would readers care that it's 36 miles from Peterborough, when the lead offers nothing on its history, economy, culture, sport etc.? KJP1 (talk) 11:34, 6 October 2023 (UTC)