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The King's Lynn Ferry has linked West Lynn to the main part of King's Lynn since 1285. [8] The ferry is operated by West Lynn Ferry Ltd. and runs Monday to Saturday. [8] It carried 85,000 passengers in 2011. [9] The service is subsidised by West Norfolk Council and was previously subsidised by Norfolk County Council. [9] [10]
Ferry Plantation House, or Old Donation Farm, Ferry Farm, Walke Manor House, [3] [5] is a brick house in the neighborhood of Old Donation Farm in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The site dates back to 1642 when Savill Gaskin started the second ferry service in Hampton Roads to carry passengers on the Lynnhaven River to the nearby county courthouse ...
Museum of Social History 27 King Street, King's Lynn: House: Early 19th century: 1 December 1951: 1298222: Museum of Social History: North Guannock Gate and Portion of Town Wall King's Lynn: Town Gate: Late 13th century: 1 December 1951
True’s Yard Fisherfolk Museum is a social history museum in King's Lynn, Norfolk. It is an independent museum run almost entirely by volunteers and depicts the story of the old North End fishing quarter of King's Lynn. Support was received from the late Bernard Matthews and others. Most of the North End was knocked down in the slum clearances ...
Congham Oil Mill was built in the village in 1797 and was used to process whale carcasses into oils and other products. The whales were brought to Congham from King's Lynn. [3] In 1973, remains of a Roman villa were discovered close to Congham. Several artefacts were recovered from the site and are now exhibited in King's Lynn Museum. [4]
Lynn service was operated in the 1870s, and between 1892 and 1908. [6] Ferry service between Boston and Salem was operated during the summer of 1998 by WTA, funded by a state grant. BHC ran unsubsidized service in the summers of 1999 and 2000. [6] Salem service resumed on June 22, 2006, with a ferry funded largely by a $2.3 million state grant ...
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The Lynn Museum and Historical Society (the tenant of the former Park Visitor Center building) [3] [1] now displays exhibits which highlight the city's industrial past, the tradition of shoemaking and its transition from a handicraft to mechanization, and the story of Elihu Thomson, an engineer and inventor instrumental in the founding of ...