Love Visting Kings lynn very historic place thanks for the great video tour I'd like to suggest maybe a trip to Hunstanton coast such a lovely seaside town 😀 😊
People often talk down about King’s Lynn, but it’s a really lovely place if you know where to look. This video excellently showcases so many of the things that I love about the town.
I was born in south Lynn 1937 ...thanks for DVD it was very enjoyable. was hoping you were going down the fleet..and look around Hillington square. but thanks very much ....my uncle was Dawson the Sampher man. ...
Brilliant walk through with fascinating facts. Thanks. A couple of other film related facts for your subscribers : The film 'Revolution' was also made in and around King's Lynn in the mid 80's. The area around the Custom House in particular was transformed into a replica of Old America and many local people were extras in the film. Also, scenes in the latest version of 'David Copperfield' were filmed around Saturday Market Place.
I work in one of the beautiful buildings on Tuesday Market Place and really love the town. I don't get to spend much time wandering as I live nearer to Norwich, so I enjoyed this. What A Hoot gin is lovely (my boss did one of their experience days and gave me a bottle for Christmas). As well as A Personal History of David Copperfield (I watched some of the filming during my lunchbreaks), they also filmed an episode of Unforgotten on Purfleet Quay a couple of years ago. Then there's the Hanseatic power boat racing every year...... It's all going on.
I studied for my O and A levels at the Norfolk College of Arts and Technology (now College of West Anglia) on Tennyson Avenue, and lived in King’s Lynn from 1970 to 1973. I remember the tranquility of King’s Lynn very well. Thank you for your video. It has brought back very happy memories to someone who was 16 at the time, and who then had traveled thousands of miles to live and study away from home for the very first time. As one of only three foreign students at the “Tech”, I remember with fondness how friendly King’s Lynn folks were.
Too bad you missed True's Yard and St. Nicholas just off the Saturday Marketplace! And Tower Gardens and The Walks and Red Mount. So much more to see next time!
As someone born in the old QE in south Lynn and having known the town all my life I have to say that its nice that so many folk are enjoying this tour and think the town to be a worthwhile place with some great history. I must however put in a note of caution, its not the entirely friendly safe place that you might get the impression of in this report. The areas away from the centre of town are not all very nice or entirely safe - day or night - you need to excercise some degree of savyness to judge it. I dont walk around at night and there is a lot of deprevation in the town in general too with some very poor areas. Some of the things that used to make Lynn a robust (economically) town have disintegrated or gone and its society is not the well structured / balanced place of 40 - 60 years ago when it was a thriving market town/port/manufacturing/agricultural centre. Successive waves of new housing development heralded as 'saving the town' have simply added new masses of deprevation and fragmented communities. One lady on a recent phone in to Radio Norfolk described why she didnt go shopping there and that was sad but very pertinent - politicians take note!
Interesting, and useful to a Northerner with maybe a rose tinted glasses viw of the town and whos thinking of moving down there somtime in the future. what would you say to that?Advisable/not advisable? Work in the town easy to find?
@@debbieharry387 Hello Debbie - I really wouldnt consider Kings Lynn - or indeed most of Norfolk. The Government have it down as a 'growth' centre with some of the largest projected population and housing development targets in the Country - the place is frankly being wrecked and isnt really very nice. The result of this is that you get masses of people sucked in or dumped here (a lot of 'difficult to place' folk from the south east where there is an even greater social housing shortage) but it destroys the 'community' that is there - the result is a fragmented / fractured society and a rubbish environment. I was amazed when i visited North Yorkshire earlier this year and walked round Scarborough / Brid / Filey etc and it still felt like England with small shops, few sprawling souless housing estates and no frightening people hanging about glaring at you (which is the norm for Norfolk) - and if not prosperous, at least not at the edge of poverty / part of the 3rd World which is what Kings Lynn, Wisbech, Thetford, parts of Norwich and definitely Gt Yarmouth and Lowestoft feel like. You only have to look at the faces and figures of the people you see in the towns to realise that Norfolk has a real deprivation problem - so many have disabilities/mental health issues based on poverty type factors - its pitiful for one who is a Lynn/Norfolk person to see and think 'is this what we have come to?' I think you have to blame years of political Thatcherite ideology and general corruption at local and national level which have simply seen all the wealth transmitted up the social ladder. As a for instance just look at information on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at KL on google - its falling down and held up by temporary builders props thoughout the building. The useless MP (conservative) and local gov (conservative) wring their hands and make nice words but a decent political system not run by corrupt persons would have never let it get like this in the first place
Kings lynn is well off the radar of places to visit, but has a remarkable amount of historical buildings! I live in East Anglia and another place I'd recommend is Lavenham in Suffolk!
It's nice that it's not touristy... you might get a few people in the know visiting as tourists. I visit about twice a year, always enjoy visiting, not been the same scince juggling Jim died though!, he was always a highlight, particularly when he was 'playing' a broken guitar with no strings, kind of like Pete Townsend if he'd have gone on trying to play his Rickenbacker after he smashed it up at a Who gig.
I’ve walked past the old theatre several times and never new that it’s the only surviving place Shakespeare performed live.. wow! I’ve recently moved to Norfolk and Kings Lynn has grown on me alot it’s a very charming place..
Great vlog Gimble. If you ever come back take in Pilot st. Its a street that has a 1000 years of history. Not much of it left but well woth a visit. It was the heart of our fishing industry and known as Fisher's end at one time and then Northend. In Queen street you could have gone through the big black studded door and looked into a wonderful courtyard where young priests lived. I used to be a guide for our fishing heritage trails. Thanks again for the look at our wonderful town.
Oh I'll definitely be back Plot Street sounds fantastic - I'm going to have a nosey at it now on Google Maps! Have a top week and watch this space for a return video!
It’s Pilot Street, Gimbal Walk🤪 St Nicholas Chapel was the chapel of ease for the fisher folk and part of North End, as is Pilot Street and True’s Yard Museum of the fishing heritage. St Nick’s has the most amazing acoustics and is sought after for concerts.
@@GimbalWalkTV Yes I agree you missed Pilot Street which is very sad as it is - in my view - the nicest street in the Town! Also nearby is Trues Yard which has two old fisherman's cottages and lots of interesting facts on the history of the town. At the other end of the town, behind The Minster you showed Priory Lane but sadly did not walk up to see the old Benedictine Priory (restored by the Preservation Trust).
Thanks very much for a wonderful tour. I was born in 1932 in King's Lynn and am proud of my heritage. I left for a better job in 1956 and I can clearly remember walking and cycling through most of those streets. It is wonderful to see how well the buildings have been preserved and it is a great credit to the current townsfolk. Picky me - There should be an apostrophe between the g & s. The town was named Len Episcopi (Bishop's Lynn) while under the temporal and spiritual jurisdiction of the Bishop of Norwich, but in the reign of Henry VIII it was surrendered to the crown and took the name Lenne Regis or King's Lynn.
What a great town to walk around. Kings Lynn is definitely down on my to do list. I actually visit nearby Heacham regularly as I have friends and family living there. Another great place is the seaside town of Hunstanton (Sunny Hunny), renowned for its spectacular sunsets. Cheers for such a great video 👍👍
Heacham and Snettisham on the way up to Hunni are also on the only stretch of coast on the east of England facing west, thereby affording the glorious sunsets over The Wash.
Great video, thinking of moving to kings lynn recently....to get away from the hustle and bustle of London. Beautiful and peaceful. And great set list btw. Shazamed quite a few of them. Will download the albums when i get a chance
Spent the entire last month in King’s Lynn. My wife was hospitalised on the 2nd and came out on the 29th. I spent time in a hotel in West Lynn, a hotel in South Lynn and finally in an Airbnb on Tuesday Market Place. I think that it is a lovely little town. I wouldn’t mind going back, but mywife is not keen !
Wow what a great walk thoroughly enjoyed it. Some outstanding buildings and thanks for all the facts and the humour as well made me chuckle keep walking 🚶🏻👍❤️
Great video as far as it goes. Can you do a King's Lynn part 2 and include St Nicholas Chapel, Trues Yard museum the beautiful library and the interesting little Jewish cemetery! Not forgetting the Walks and the lovely South Gates. Thank you!
Beautiful town which despite the planners best efforts has retained most of its historic buildings unlike many. I will definitely visit based on your video. Thank you.
Sorry i meant the 60s shopping centre from the high st junction down new conduit st past Wimpy and Nationwide down to H&M then left towards the bus station. That area was flattened in the late 60s and made into one of the first pedestrian shopping areas in the UK. Then the 1960s shops were either knocked down and replaced with new shiny shops or some just had new fronts to fit with the new development which started in the 2000s. People were glad to see the back of the 1960s shops as they were out of date and so out of place in Lynn.
Wow, what a beautiful little town Kings Lynn is. Love all the old architecture, so well preserved. The old cobbled streets really throw them back in time don't they! YaY for the famous white trainers making an appearance ^_^ Keep up the great videos :)
That was amazing!! I felt like I was actually there! I've never been to King's Lynn...I feel the need to go now!! Good job!!! Thanks..I'll be looking out for more trips around towns..!!! ❤
Also film in 1985 called revolution starring Al Pacino was filmed in the entire town Also the Sherlock Holmes mysteries Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens . And World War II films “one of our aircraft is missing “ 1942 and The silver fleet all filmed in the town as well as Operation crossbow .starring Sophia Loren and George Peppard was also Filmed in Lynn in 1965 ) More recently The personal history of David Copperfield in 2019 Also former F1 racer and pundit Martin Brundle was born in the town as well as F1 racer George Russell and George North the Welsh rugby player were born in the town
Super video! 👏👏. Very near to us and we will visit soon. My husband spent 2 years at college there but didn’t notice the buildings! To be fair, it has all been improved since ‘72, lol 😂
Great video, I was a policeman in kings Lynn 58 years ago and would pop in the Dukes head for a cuppa when I was on nights. Looks a little more gentile than I remember. Regards
your videos are excellent. it will be good if you could locate the towns you visit on the map when you start. It will be better if you could tell the origin of the place names. More comments during your walks will be appreciated by us, people living outside Britain because they are very instructive. I live in Mauritius and I have never set foot in England. Thanks for your videos. Keep it up.
Boston in Lincolnshire can also be a very interesting Historical walk around the lovely old buildings &: through the old back alleyways around the famous Boston stump & up it if you can around the town Park & through the busy Market ?
I’ve watched this once again, and it is by far the best promotional video of my hometown on the Internet Thanks and well done sir. Also when you went into Hampton Court above you in a cradle was a cannonball allegedly fired through the towers of Lynn Minster by Cromwell.
Stayed in the area a couple of nights last autumn. Recognised quite a lot of the town (though being there on a Sunday was pretty quiet). The local area has much to recommend.
I was there in 1954 thru 1958 stationed at RAF Sculthorpe. I frequented a Pub in the market square, the owners passed and their son Collin took it over and as far as I know he is still there today. Quite a history with that Pub.... I had a 1953 Triumph Motorcycle and road it from Alconbury to Kings Lynn and back just to enjoy friends there.
@@stevechong8496 Not until the mid eighties 85/86.I was also at Bircham Newton,we did a day release at Norcat,we used to go day drinking in the town and the evening.
@@stevechong8496 sorry I can’t remember that one,the pub we drank in, mainly was the globe and the pubs around the square and the one at the other end of town,their were a couple of others I think it was the sportsman.
The diamond shape you saw over the window of the building on the Tuesday market place comes from a legend of kings Lynn. It was supposed to be a witch who was bunt in the market place. She made her heart fly out of her chest and hit the window of the person who charged her. I have lived here all my life and there are so many beautiful buildings here. If you had gone further down the quay you would have found the Baden powell, which is a fully restored fishing boat that was originally made here 100 years ago
King’s Lynn Minster was St Margaret’s Parish Church before it was upgraded to a Minster (one down from a cathedral) and Kings Lynn got its own Bishop again.
Factoid: The brown brick building at 2:40 has a stone heart carved above the window and large white stone doorway, that is to my knowledge the heart of a witch who was burned at the steak in the old town square.
It's a very nice town with great history and I few famous people like captain Cook captain vancouver, the inventor of the ferris wheel and king John's treasure was lost here so we have a statue
We've been glued to your videos,we live in Norfolk and take these towns for granted but you've taught us a lot, we feel ashamed to say. Maybe further videos could include Thetford Norfolk and then Bury St Edmunds Lavenham, Long Melford and Kersey in Suffolk. Wherever keep them coming they are great . Thanks.
Thank you so much for the suggestions - I've noted them all down and will definitely give them a visit! I have done Lavenham already - what an amazing place that is eh!
Have to admit, love the historical facts you and personal touches to the video's. Keep it up! Also love the older towns vs the newer more modern ones. It's sad when a historical building gets knocked down. The new one's are bit cold in personality, if that makes sense to the history buffs. 😁
Those odd shaped vessels at the bottom of the Purfleet (15.40ish) are buoys and the boat behind them on the River Great Ouse is known as the buoy boat because it takes the buoys out to their marker places in the river, The Wash or the North Sea.
Loved the video I live in Lynn will you do a follow up video you missed a few interesting places like devils alley, st Nicholas chapel, pilot street the old exorcists house and the walks oh and the south gates
Lived in Kings Lynn most of my life it get slagged off by people that Have never even been here it’s got some of the most fantastic mediaeval Georgian Edwardian buildings in the country fantastic Riverside architecture I’m proud to live in the town
Lived here since 1987. Never managed to leave. A peaceful town with plenty to offer and very little crime. Excellent rail service to London, 1 1/2 hours to Kings X. Beautiful surrounding countryside and excellent rivers to fish. Good sporting facilities. A very friendly and relaxed town.
As someone who lived in King's Lynn since the age of 10 i can surely say, it needs more work done on it, but it's not all bad the social infrastructure is developed quite well
My family used to own big chunks of the area. Daniel Massey was both a father and brother to Elizabeth Massey a great grandmother 5 generations ago. Cousin Vinny was a governor general of Canada. It appears each generation had one member take a different path from their siblings. My father passed that onto me without giving any instructions or heads up. I am # 6 of 8 children, 3rd of 4 sons with little expectations of doing much of anything as I would have been second backup but not last hope. The others are unaware and probably have not deduced dad was with british intelligence during war. He purchased property from a J.L.Sinclair circa 45. Uncle and another cousin were with fire department when the William Sinclair farmhouse was torched during a training exercise. I was born on Victoria day 20 years after Bob Dylan and extremely close to a Lakeside park. Great grandfather Peter was born day Lincoln gave his proclamation. His second wife was French as was my mother who watched Chez Helene with her brown eyed bundle of joy.
Also, I know you’re a bit of a film and Tv location, buff Much like myself in the 80s they filmed revolution in the town was a bit of a box office flop, but it’s starred Al Pacino, Natasha Kinski, Donald Sutherland and many other stars. Also, they filmed during the second world war movie Called “ one of our aircraft is missing (1942) Also Silver fleet (1943 ) Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit 1994 ) Operation, Crossbow starring George Peppard Tom, Courtney, Sophia Loren in (1965) Most recently the TV series unforgotten And the new Adaptation of Charles Dickens David Copperfield story By Armando Iannucci The personal history of David Copperfield, 2019
Wow, what an interesting place! I guess Kings Lynn somehow escaped the German bombing in WW2. So many interesting buildings, and I love all those narrow lanes between the buildings. I would have to explore every one. My favourite place you showed us was Hampton Court (30:40), how great it would be to live or work there. My city, Coventry, was almost completely destroyed by bombing in the war, so very few old buildings remain.
I used to go and stay at my aunts in Coventry. She took us round the cathedral many years ago and showed us the old cathedral 😢which was destroyed by the Luftwaffe. Kings Lane was also bombed the docks, some pubs in the First World War. It was struck by zeppelins.
@Gimbal TV - I found the comment at 26:09 odd saying how rare it was to find well preserved buildings in England. As you are often found going around a lot of those said towns and cities making precisely the opposite comment. I have a high disregard for many of the town planners of 60 & 70s who went well beyond correcting bomb damage of the 2nd World War in their wanton destruction, but that sort generalization especially for foreign viewers is inaccurate and as I said not even borne out by many of your own vlogs.
You need to look at the top half of seemingly uninteresting modern looking buildings - they are often old with feint markings or writings saying who was there centuries earlier, e.g. opposite Debenhams on High Street.
@@GimbalWalkTV There used to be 9 down King Street and Queen Street alone. Prezzo opposite the Globe was the Fleece for one. At the other end, the yellow house on Priory Lane was The Valiant! Love your other vids too!
So Well Cared For... No Graffiti which Sad to Say in my part of Norwich City seems to be part of the excepted Norm. Good interesting Video... Thank You.
Greetings from Indiana. My mother was born and raised in Kings Lynn. She's 89 years old, and she enjoyed watching this video. So did I. Thanks
That’s amazing! She ended up so far from home! Did she keep her accent?
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The red & green things you saw where Navigation Buoys placed all around the coast by Trinity House, and the ship alongside is a bouy laying vessel
Thank you!
Born and bred in Lynn nearly 80 years ago. The Buoys are known as "Billy Buoys" locally.
Love Visting Kings lynn very historic place thanks for the great video tour I'd like to suggest maybe a trip to Hunstanton coast such a lovely seaside town 😀 😊
Great idea - have added to my list 👍👍
People often talk down about King’s Lynn, but it’s a really lovely place if you know where to look. This video excellently showcases so many of the things that I love about the town.
I was born in south Lynn 1937 ...thanks for DVD it was very enjoyable. was hoping you were going down the fleet..and look around Hillington square. but thanks very much ....my uncle was Dawson the Sampher man. ...
Brilliant walk through with fascinating facts. Thanks. A couple of other film related facts for your subscribers : The film 'Revolution' was also made in and around King's Lynn in the mid 80's. The area around the Custom House in particular was transformed into a replica of Old America and many local people were extras in the film. Also, scenes in the latest version of 'David Copperfield' were filmed around Saturday Market Place.
They also filmed here for the Young David Copperfield film in 2018
Amazing. As a resident of King’s Lynn I must appreciate you did an amazing job of capturing the town's quaint beauty. 👌
Thank you for this wonderful tour! I am so very lucky to live in this beautiful and historic town. Yes, the best town in England.
Our pleasure!
I work in one of the beautiful buildings on Tuesday Market Place and really love the town. I don't get to spend much time wandering as I live nearer to Norwich, so I enjoyed this. What A Hoot gin is lovely (my boss did one of their experience days and gave me a bottle for Christmas). As well as A Personal History of David Copperfield (I watched some of the filming during my lunchbreaks), they also filmed an episode of Unforgotten on Purfleet Quay a couple of years ago. Then there's the Hanseatic power boat racing every year...... It's all going on.
Lovely stuff thank you for the info!
I'm a sucker for filming locations too!
Kings Lynn nice old buildings streets fantastic walking tour thanks please keep them coming take care👍😊
2023,have you ever been to Suffolk???? Holton St Peters a wee Village of Magic I realized this in 2008 my heart came alive
great one, Kings Lynn is true love for me, please try to get there everyone... its absolutely amazing, thanks for the video
Thank you!
Have a great week ❤️
Another fantastic video as always 👍🏻 and I’m lucky to have this pretty much on my doorstep. I think it’s a very underrated town!!
Agreed!
I concur 💕 not what I expected looks quaint and pretty 👍😊💕
I studied for my O and A levels at the Norfolk College of Arts and Technology (now College of West Anglia) on Tennyson Avenue, and lived in King’s Lynn from 1970 to 1973. I remember the tranquility of King’s Lynn very well. Thank you for your video. It has brought back very happy memories to someone who was 16 at the time, and who then had traveled thousands of miles to live and study away from home for the very first time. As one of only three foreign students at the “Tech”, I remember with fondness how friendly King’s Lynn folks were.
Too bad you missed True's Yard and St. Nicholas just off the Saturday Marketplace! And Tower Gardens and The Walks and Red Mount. So much more to see next time!
Absolutely - I never get everything in the first visit as I don't know the places so info like yours helps me on the next one!
As someone born in the old QE in south Lynn and having known the town all my life I have to say that its nice that so many folk are enjoying this tour and think the town to be a worthwhile place with some great history. I must however put in a note of caution, its not the entirely friendly safe place that you might get the impression of in this report. The areas away from the centre of town are not all very nice or entirely safe - day or night - you need to excercise some degree of savyness to judge it. I dont walk around at night and there is a lot of deprevation in the town in general too with some very poor areas. Some of the things that used to make Lynn a robust (economically) town have disintegrated or gone and its society is not the well structured / balanced place of 40 - 60 years ago when it was a thriving market town/port/manufacturing/agricultural centre. Successive waves of new housing development heralded as 'saving the town' have simply added new masses of deprevation and fragmented communities. One lady on a recent phone in to Radio Norfolk described why she didnt go shopping there and that was sad but very pertinent - politicians take note!
Ah yes - that's the same in pretty much every town or city these days sadly.
Interesting, and useful to a Northerner with maybe a rose tinted glasses viw of the town and whos thinking of moving down there somtime in the future. what would you say to that?Advisable/not advisable? Work in the town easy to find?
@@debbieharry387 Hello Debbie - I really wouldnt consider Kings Lynn - or indeed most of Norfolk. The Government have it down as a 'growth' centre with some of the largest projected population and housing development targets in the Country - the place is frankly being wrecked and isnt really very nice. The result of this is that you get masses of people sucked in or dumped here (a lot of 'difficult to place' folk from the south east where there is an even greater social housing shortage) but it destroys the 'community' that is there - the result is a fragmented / fractured society and a rubbish environment. I was amazed when i visited North Yorkshire earlier this year and walked round Scarborough / Brid / Filey etc and it still felt like England with small shops, few sprawling souless housing estates and no frightening people hanging about glaring at you (which is the norm for Norfolk) - and if not prosperous, at least not at the edge of poverty / part of the 3rd World which is what Kings Lynn, Wisbech, Thetford, parts of Norwich and definitely Gt Yarmouth and Lowestoft feel like. You only have to look at the faces and figures of the people you see in the towns to realise that Norfolk has a real deprivation problem - so many have disabilities/mental health issues based on poverty type factors - its pitiful for one who is a Lynn/Norfolk person to see and think 'is this what we have come to?' I think you have to blame years of political Thatcherite ideology and general corruption at local and national level which have simply seen all the wealth transmitted up the social ladder. As a for instance just look at information on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at KL on google - its falling down and held up by temporary builders props thoughout the building. The useless MP (conservative) and local gov (conservative) wring their hands and make nice words but a decent political system not run by corrupt persons would have never let it get like this in the first place
In that case Iwont move there.maybe sticktoholidays there. Thanks for the advice.
Kings lynn is well off the radar of places to visit, but has a remarkable amount of historical buildings! I live in East Anglia and another place I'd recommend is Lavenham in Suffolk!
It's nice that it's not touristy... you might get a few people in the know visiting as tourists. I visit about twice a year, always enjoy visiting, not been the same scince juggling Jim died though!, he was always a highlight, particularly when he was 'playing' a broken guitar with no strings, kind of like Pete Townsend if he'd have gone on trying to play his Rickenbacker after he smashed it up at a Who gig.
Really love Kings lyn
I’ve walked past the old theatre several times and never new that it’s the only surviving place Shakespeare performed live.. wow! I’ve recently moved to Norfolk and Kings Lynn has grown on me alot it’s a very charming place..
It’s great isn’t it
Such a awesome video and talking bout kings lynn and the history so thank u wiv my heart
Great vlog Gimble. If you ever come back take in Pilot st. Its a street that has a 1000 years of history. Not much of it left but well woth a visit. It was the heart of our fishing industry and known as Fisher's end at one time and then Northend. In Queen street you could have gone through the big black studded door and looked into a wonderful courtyard where young priests lived. I used to be a guide for our fishing heritage trails. Thanks again for the look at our wonderful town.
Oh I'll definitely be back
Plot Street sounds fantastic - I'm going to have a nosey at it now on Google Maps!
Have a top week and watch this space for a return video!
It’s Pilot Street, Gimbal Walk🤪 St Nicholas Chapel was the chapel of ease for the fisher folk and part of North End, as is Pilot Street and True’s Yard Museum of the fishing heritage. St Nick’s has the most amazing acoustics and is sought after for concerts.
@@GimbalWalkTV Yes I agree you missed Pilot Street which is very sad as it is - in my view - the nicest street in the Town! Also nearby is Trues Yard which has two old fisherman's cottages and lots of interesting facts on the history of the town. At the other end of the town, behind The Minster you showed Priory Lane but sadly did not walk up to see the old Benedictine Priory (restored by the Preservation Trust).
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Next time!
Thanks very much for a wonderful tour. I was born in 1932 in King's Lynn and am proud of my heritage. I left for a better job in 1956 and I can clearly remember walking and cycling through most of those streets. It is wonderful to see how well the buildings have been preserved and it is a great credit to the current townsfolk.
Picky me - There should be an apostrophe between the g & s. The town was named Len Episcopi (Bishop's Lynn) while under the temporal and spiritual jurisdiction of the Bishop of Norwich, but in the reign of Henry VIII it was surrendered to the crown and took the name Lenne Regis or King's Lynn.
Oh crikey my mistake!
I have real difficulty with apostrophes it’s my weakness
What a great town to walk around. Kings Lynn is definitely down on my to do list. I actually visit nearby Heacham regularly as I have friends and family living there. Another great place is the seaside town of Hunstanton (Sunny Hunny), renowned for its spectacular sunsets. Cheers for such a great video 👍👍
Castle Rising just outside Lynn. With Sandringham estate 10 mins drive on the way to Sunny Hunny (Hunstanton)
Heacham and Snettisham on the way up to Hunni are also on the only stretch of coast on the east of England facing west, thereby affording the glorious sunsets over The Wash.
Great video, thinking of moving to kings lynn recently....to get away from the hustle and bustle of London. Beautiful and peaceful.
And great set list btw.
Shazamed quite a few of them. Will download the albums when i get a chance
Thanks so much
Can’t beat happy feel good music!
Spent the entire last month in King’s Lynn. My wife was hospitalised on the 2nd and came out on the 29th. I spent time in a hotel in West Lynn, a hotel in South Lynn and finally in an Airbnb on Tuesday Market Place. I think that it is a lovely little town. I wouldn’t mind going back, but mywife is not keen !
15:41 - those are buoys that mark the channels on the approach from sea. They get anchored on each side of the channel.
Wow what a great walk thoroughly enjoyed it. Some outstanding buildings and thanks for all the facts and the humour as well made me chuckle keep walking 🚶🏻👍❤️
Thank you
Hi love Kings Lynn. A lot of happy memories there!
Please can you go to Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire? It won’t disappoint!
A great & fantastic video of
KINGS LYNN, Norfolk | The Greatest Town In England?👌👌👌👌👌👌
Thanks Michael!
Staying in the globe this Wednesday on our first visit to King's Lynn, looking forward to, thanks for the video
You’re welcome
It’s such a lovely place enjoy!
Beautiful church, come on Tuesday evening bell practice .... love it....
Oh yes
Great video as far as it goes. Can you do a King's Lynn part 2 and include St Nicholas Chapel, Trues Yard museum the beautiful library and the interesting little Jewish cemetery! Not forgetting the Walks and the lovely South Gates. Thank you!
Good job! Thank you!
Thank you so much ☺️
Beautiful town which despite the planners best efforts has retained most of its historic buildings unlike many. I will definitely visit based on your video. Thank you.
Thanks Graham!
And then they knocked down most of it again in the late 2000s
@@atarijay5406 Which bits?
Sorry i meant the 60s shopping centre from the high st junction down new conduit st past Wimpy and Nationwide down to H&M then left towards the bus station. That area was flattened in the late 60s and made into one of the first pedestrian shopping areas in the UK. Then the 1960s shops were either knocked down and replaced with new shiny shops or some just had new fronts to fit with the new development which started in the 2000s. People were glad to see the back of the 1960s shops as they were out of date and so out of place in Lynn.
@@atarijay5406 to be fair the sixties centre was ugly as heck and so run down.
Wow, what a beautiful little town Kings Lynn is. Love all the old architecture, so well preserved. The old cobbled streets really throw them back in time don't they! YaY for the famous white trainers making an appearance ^_^ Keep up the great videos :)
I so take Lynn for granted. great video
That was amazing!! I felt like I was actually there! I've never been to King's Lynn...I feel the need to go now!! Good job!!! Thanks..I'll be looking out for more trips around towns..!!! ❤
Also film in 1985 called revolution starring Al Pacino was filmed in the entire town Also the Sherlock Holmes mysteries Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens . And World War II films “one of our aircraft is missing “ 1942 and The silver fleet all filmed in the town as well as Operation crossbow .starring Sophia Loren and George Peppard was also Filmed in Lynn in 1965 ) More recently The personal history of David Copperfield in 2019 Also former F1 racer and pundit Martin Brundle was born in the town as well as F1 racer George Russell and George North the Welsh rugby player were born in the town
I’m staying for a few days in February, this video has given me a good intro
Great stuff - enjoy
Super video! 👏👏. Very near to us and we will visit soon. My husband spent 2 years at college there but didn’t notice the buildings! To be fair, it has all been improved since ‘72, lol 😂
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Annemarie, were you at the Norfolk College of Art and Technology on Tennyson Avenue? I studied there too from 1970-73.
Great video, I was a policeman in kings Lynn 58 years ago and would pop in the Dukes head for a cuppa when I was on nights. Looks a little more gentile than I remember. Regards
your videos are excellent. it will be good if you could locate the towns you visit on the map when you start. It will be better if you could tell the origin of the place names. More comments during your walks will be appreciated by us, people living outside Britain because they are very instructive. I live in Mauritius and I have never set foot in England. Thanks for your videos. Keep it up.
That's a good idea!
Have a look at the comments. Quite a few give additional information, which I’m sure you will find interesting
Boston in Lincolnshire can also be a very interesting Historical walk around the lovely old buildings &: through the old back alleyways around the famous Boston stump & up it if you can around the town Park & through the busy Market ?
You can see Boston Stump across The Wash from Hunstanton, especially on clear days or nights.
I’ve watched this once again, and it is by far the best promotional video of my hometown on the Internet Thanks and well done sir. Also when you went into Hampton Court above you in a cradle was a cannonball allegedly fired through the towers of Lynn Minster by Cromwell.
Stayed in the area a couple of nights last autumn. Recognised quite a lot of the town (though being there on a Sunday was pretty quiet). The local area has much to recommend.
Nice work! Next time, don't forget the impressive St Nicholas Chapel (not far from the Tuesday Market Place) and the nearby Old Fisherfolk area👍.
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Nice video showing about half of what's on offer in this excellent town
Thank you 👍
I was there in 1954 thru 1958 stationed at RAF Sculthorpe. I frequented a Pub in the market square, the owners passed and their son Collin took it over and as far as I know he is still there today. Quite a history with that Pub.... I had a 1953 Triumph Motorcycle and road it from Alconbury to Kings Lynn and back just to enjoy friends there.
Superb stuff Jim! That sounds like fun. Would love a bike if it was safer to ride them these days
lovely town it's been a while since I was there forgot about the old buildings next I go to hunstanton I must stop and have a look around cheers Neil
Used to go to college here and had a great time years ago remember all these pubs.
Lovely stuff!
Ray, I attended the Tech from 1970-1973. When were you there?
@@stevechong8496 Not until the mid eighties 85/86.I was also at Bircham Newton,we did a day release at Norcat,we used to go day drinking in the town and the evening.
@@raydawson2767, presume one of your haunts was The Woolpack just by the Tech?
@@stevechong8496 sorry I can’t remember that one,the pub we drank in, mainly was the globe and the pubs around the square and the one at the other end of town,their were a couple of others I think it was the sportsman.
I want to get to the UK SO BADLY :). For sure will make this a stop !!!
You should - it's lovely
The diamond shape you saw over the window of the building on the Tuesday market place comes from a legend of kings Lynn. It was supposed to be a witch who was bunt in the market place. She made her heart fly out of her chest and hit the window of the person who charged her. I have lived here all my life and there are so many beautiful buildings here. If you had gone further down the quay you would have found the Baden powell, which is a fully restored fishing boat that was originally made here 100 years ago
Oh yes. I remember being told that tale when I was about 7 or 8.
Nelson Street is where Captain Horatio Nelson lived. He was born the son of a vicar in Brancaster, North Norfolk, and wasa very proud son of Norfolk.
Nice town to go and visit I work there in the 80s Gold crest movie company filmed Revolution al pachino
King’s Lynn Minster was St Margaret’s Parish Church before it was upgraded to a Minster (one down from a cathedral) and Kings Lynn got its own Bishop again.
Factoid: The brown brick building at 2:40 has a stone heart carved above the window and large white stone doorway, that is to my knowledge the heart of a witch who was burned at the steak in the old town square.
Love lynn makes me so proud I'm living in Southampton at the moment 😍 🙌
It's a very nice town with great history and I few famous people like captain Cook captain vancouver, the inventor of the ferris wheel and king John's treasure was lost here so we have a statue
The green, red and yellow objects on Purfleet quay are buoys in for maintenance. They mark out the safe passage for shipping in the Wash.
Ah thank you!
Love learning this kind of thing! 👍
I knows kings lynn very well cos of my grandad and grandma x
We've been glued to your videos,we live in Norfolk and take these towns for granted but you've taught us a lot, we feel ashamed to say.
Maybe further videos could include Thetford Norfolk and then Bury St Edmunds Lavenham, Long Melford and Kersey in Suffolk.
Wherever keep them coming they are great . Thanks.
Thank you so much for the suggestions - I've noted them all down and will definitely give them a visit!
I have done Lavenham already - what an amazing place that is eh!
Louth in Lincolnshire is an interesting old town.
Beautiful city👌fantastic building and roads👍😊
Agreed!
GREAT vlog❤
Thanks Tony!
Have to admit, love the historical facts you and personal touches to the video's. Keep it up! Also love the older towns vs the newer more modern ones. It's sad when a historical building gets knocked down. The new one's are bit cold in personality, if that makes sense to the history buffs. 😁
Absolutely yes.
For shipping when out at sea used to light up
Those odd shaped vessels at the bottom of the Purfleet (15.40ish) are buoys and the boat behind them on the River Great Ouse is known as the buoy boat because it takes the buoys out to their marker places in the river, The Wash or the North Sea.
Loved the video I live in Lynn will you do a follow up video you missed a few interesting places like devils alley, st Nicholas chapel, pilot street the old exorcists house and the walks oh and the south gates
Yes for definite. I'm back soon to do another there. I fell in love with King's Lynn when I was there!
Lived in Kings Lynn most of my life it get slagged off by people that Have never even been here it’s got some of the most fantastic mediaeval Georgian Edwardian buildings in the country fantastic Riverside architecture I’m proud to live in the town
Well said - honestly I thought it was magnificent on my visit and will definitely be back again
You almost had the full tour, lol. Vancouver centre (other part and the park), you missed it, lol.
We came here 22 years ago and havent left yet ... You missed some of the best bits though.
I never cover it all in my videos - Gives me reason to go back to places
Lived here since 1987. Never managed to leave. A peaceful town with plenty to offer and very little crime. Excellent rail service to London, 1 1/2 hours to Kings X. Beautiful surrounding countryside and excellent rivers to fish. Good sporting facilities. A very friendly and relaxed town.
I came here in a January 2001 for what I expected to be 3-4 months temporary work and 21 years later I am still here and love it.
Someone said bit grimy this place
I don't think so , looks nice👍😊streets look clean
I think so too
He or she only walked round the nice areas. Like anywhere it has its ups and downs. But trust me it is grimy in places!
@@jcreedy20 of course - same anywhere O guess 👍
Queen st ? did I miss it. Famous houses down there
No idea
Brilliant video and a really lovely town.
Thanks John!
Have a top weekend
The Dukes head hotel used to be pink not so long ago!
Crikey! Bet that stood out a bit!
It will probably be pink next time as they seem to alterate over the years.
It’s changed backwards and forwards in colour white a number of times on the last 21 years!
Are they buoys?
Possibly!
WhataHoot gin is a fantastic local drink - highly recommend it!!
I’m going to order some online as a gift
I must get round to going there! It’s almost on my doorstep!
@@suethrelfall7224 you really should 😊
You need to come back, you missed quite a bit.
I will
What happened to Tower Street?
Dont' know - I'm not from Kings Lynn
Tower Street is still here just near the top end of the High Street west from the Minster. A bit sad but there.
I was wondering where the Greggs was till you past it. DPD van...
The centre of cities/towns are all the same.
DPD!
How many town centres in the U.K still have a Wimpy restaurant, The last one I used was in the Broadmarsh centre Nottingham now gone.
@@davidsummerfield2594 Yes true! I dont' see many of them anymore
Beautiful town, what camera do you use I love the sharp crisp picture of your films.
Thank you!
As someone who lived in King's Lynn since the age of 10 i can surely say, it needs more work done on it, but it's not all bad the social infrastructure is developed quite well
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The corner where Boots is was beautiful old buildings which were were pulled down in the 1960s and that modern monstrosity replaced them!
Oh no!
Are there photos of the olds ones anywhere?
If we had been able to keep all the heritage buildings destroyed by greedy council members in the 50s and 60s, Kings Lynn would now rival York.
I was born in Lynn, same as me father, and his father and his father before him.
The wide archways were for coach and horse entry.
Ah that makes sense!
My family used to own big chunks of the area. Daniel Massey was both a father and brother to Elizabeth Massey a great grandmother 5 generations ago. Cousin Vinny was a governor general of Canada. It appears each generation had one member take a different path from their siblings. My father passed that onto me without giving any instructions or heads up.
I am # 6 of 8 children, 3rd of 4 sons with little expectations of doing much of anything as I would have been second backup but not last hope.
The others are unaware and probably have not deduced dad was with british intelligence during war. He purchased property from a J.L.Sinclair circa 45. Uncle and another cousin were with fire department when the William Sinclair farmhouse was torched during a training exercise. I was born on Victoria day 20 years after Bob Dylan and extremely close to a Lakeside park. Great grandfather Peter was born day Lincoln gave his proclamation. His second wife was French as was my mother who watched Chez Helene with her brown eyed bundle of joy.
Down Kings street is where the film revolution was filmed with Donald Sutherland and Al Pacino.
great to see my town being video. Enjoyed it very much. Thank you.
Our pleasure! What a lovely place!
Also, I know you’re a bit of a film and Tv location, buff Much like myself in the 80s they filmed revolution in the town was a bit of a box office flop, but it’s starred Al Pacino, Natasha Kinski, Donald Sutherland and many other stars. Also, they filmed during the second world war movie Called “ one of our aircraft is missing (1942) Also Silver fleet (1943 ) Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit 1994 ) Operation, Crossbow starring George Peppard Tom, Courtney, Sophia Loren in (1965) Most recently the TV series unforgotten And the new Adaptation of Charles Dickens David Copperfield story By Armando Iannucci The personal history of David Copperfield, 2019
Wow, what an interesting place! I guess Kings Lynn somehow escaped the German bombing in WW2. So many interesting buildings, and I love all those narrow lanes between the buildings. I would have to explore every one. My favourite place you showed us was Hampton Court (30:40), how great it would be to live or work there. My city, Coventry, was almost completely destroyed by bombing in the war, so very few old buildings remain.
I used to go and stay at my aunts in Coventry. She took us round the cathedral many years ago and showed us the old cathedral 😢which was destroyed by the Luftwaffe. Kings Lane was also bombed the docks, some pubs in the First World War. It was struck by zeppelins.
@Gimbal TV - I found the comment at 26:09 odd saying how rare it was to find well preserved buildings in England. As you are often found going around a lot of those said towns and cities making precisely the opposite comment. I have a high disregard for many of the town planners of 60 & 70s who went well beyond correcting bomb damage of the 2nd World War in their wanton destruction, but that sort generalization especially for foreign viewers is inaccurate and as I said not even borne out by many of your own vlogs.
Ok
The Bricks on the buildings are very different
You need to look at the top half of seemingly uninteresting modern looking buildings - they are often old with feint markings or writings saying who was there centuries earlier, e.g. opposite Debenhams on High Street.
Very true
Fantastic place ! I recommend to anyone who is not from King's Lynn.
in the minster, there is the Hebrew tetragrammaton JHWH which is the name of the supreme god Jehovah
really who is Jehovah
the gin distillery (i love gin btw) used to be my dentist for many years!
Crikey - did they give you some before your fillings? 😮🤣
@@GimbalWalkTV i wish they had!
You wouldn't believe how many old pubs you just walked past!
Really?
Was it pub central back in the day?
@@GimbalWalkTV There used to be 9 down King Street and Queen Street alone. Prezzo opposite the Globe was the Fleece for one. At the other end, the yellow house on Priory Lane was The Valiant! Love your other vids too!
Yes navigation buoys
Thanks Richard - I thought that might be the case but they look so heavy!
So Well Cared For... No Graffiti which Sad to Say in my part of Norwich City seems to be part of the excepted Norm. Good interesting Video... Thank You.
You're welcome Rose - thank you so much for watching my channel!
i was living there 2000-2009
We have more Grade II listed buildings than York... did you know that.
I didn't!
I love King's Lynn now - it's such a great place to visit