Kings Lynn Park

it looks so lovely in the snow....;-)

so bright and clear, i really love those old walls, its near where my mum grew up ~ expect she would recognise these views.

That looks an interesting park :o)

Love the arch with the avenue of trees, so beautiful. Thanks for the blog Anchor.

There's more to that park than I realised I must have passed it hundreds of times , it's a must place to visit in better weather , thanks for the photos AM :o)

Yes Amy. I'd lived in this area for 10 years and gone past the park gates hundreds of times and just assumed it was a long avenue of trees.

When I finally went in I was amazed how much more there was to it

that stream is really pretty but the part of the blog that fascinates me is the tower ~ it seems to grow as you scroll down the blog

It's a lovely park (when it isn't covered in snow lol) I think I'd like to walk through it on a nice day.

I've been in the park with the tower opposite AM the one that was on TV and you had to vote for a place of your choice to win money to renovate it , I can't remember it's name ! it has some lovely rose arches .....

Looks so pristine with its blanket of white virginal snow! What a contrast with the summer shots though!

What's the tower in the last shot?

It's called Grey Friars tower Amy.

I've added a new photo of the tower and much more information about it to this blog

Great to see the old bandstand. Many parks lost theirs in both world wars as the iron was turned into munitions. :-(

Yes, I agree David. A bandstand is such a pretty and nostalgic sight! The one on Magdalen Green in Dundee is one of my favourite sights of this area. I like this blog anchorman and it really is lovely to see some grass and sunshine!

That's the one AM , Grey friars, thanks for including the pics .. and a reminder of it's history .. did you ever go into K.Lynn when they were filming ' Revolution ' amazing how they changed the look of the area near the docks ...

I loved that blog, thanks Anchorman

Thanks for the positive comments everyone :^)

Yes Amy I had a good look around just after they'd finished filming and the mock up buildings they added or used to disguise modern stuff were amazingly realistic even really close up.

I wish I'd taken some photos.

The area by the river close to the main street(close to the customs house) they used for film in has been much improved since then.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31559373@N00/121313416/in/set-72057594069678935/

Interesting blog AM, good info and pictures as usual.

Very nice blog and photos liked the ones better with all the nice sunshine.

I lived in Kings Lynn for my senior school years,just by this park, its called 'The Walks' and we used the open air swimming pool that used to be very near 'The Mount' - we always fed the ducks too. Behind where the sculpture is was the general hospital where my mum nursed for over 20 years. I think its housing now?

Yes. It was still standing but used as a residence for nurses until roughly the late 1980's but is now social housing.

Thanks AM

The extra info you've added AM, makes the blog more interesting & complete! :-))

I always intended to add more but it took me so long to pull the photos together and upload them to the blog I'd run out of steam!

Doesn't surprise me at all! It takes quite an effort to to put together a blog & its photos! The thing I do is to make it over a few days. As it is saved as a draft you can come back at any time to continue. My blogs often take two or three days before I publish them.

Very interesting blog AM as I've been to Kings Lynn many times in the past and never visited this lovely park. Beautiful photos but I especially like the one of the bandstand in the sun and snow. Thanks very much for showing me what I've missed :o)

:^)

I've never been to Kings Lynn but my father lived in Swaffham, which isn't too far I think - I think the sculpture from a dead tree trunk is absolutely fantastic... great pics too.

Swaffham is about 15 miles from Kings Lynn.

I live about 12 miles from Swaffham on the Norwich side Bamboo , both my children went to high school at Swaffham ... did you ever watch Kingdom on TV with Stephen Fry it was mostly all filmed in Swaffham ... they implied that Wells ( the seaside ) was within walking distance and it's not it's about 25 miles from Swaffham .... .. also their accents were so wrong ,Norfolk people didn't like it because it made them look silly ........

I did watch Kingdom, very enjoyable, but shows how much I know - I didn't realise that was Swaffham, lol! Still have a sister up there, but she lives in Norwich, and I know what the local accent's like and they do actually say bootiful...

Swaffam had a great Saturday market years ago.

It still has one Drc , the live stock market stopped for a few years after the Auctioneer retired but it has restarted again just this month , I haven't been yet but it use to have a wonderful atmosphere with the crates of chickens,, rabbits , ducks etc. vegetables straight from the farms ...
Yes Bamboo .. Bootiful ..LOL... The solicitors office in Kingdom was the High school front entrance .. !

You may not have heard but Bernard Mathews actually died last week .. it's a sad time for all the people he has employed and the many charities he helped . he was a true Gent . He started his business with about a dozen Turkeys eggs and an old incubator , he bought Great Witchingham Hall when it was a run down wreck , there was a brilliant photo in the newspaper last week showing his wife herding the turkeys down the huge staircase inside the hall which is where they kept them in the beginning ... ...

Thoroughly enjoyed your blog A/Man, fascinating bits of history and architecture too.

Thanks! :^)

Hi Anchorman, Just found this blog as I was searching for photos of the bandstand in 'The Walks' park in King's Lynn. Would it be possible at all to use the photo for advertising a free community event we are running at the bandstand very soon. Here is a link to our website and I hope you don't mind me being cheeky and putting the photo up so that you can see what we are doing with it. The link to our website is www.celebratekingslynn.com. Please let me know if you would like me to take it down.
Thank you for the amazing photography and making this post available for everyone to see your photos.
Regards, Maarten.