Photoshop Elements randomly creates collages from my photo catalogue. This collage brought back some happy memories.
I loved receiving these reversible skirts hand packed with a personal note making me feel special. When the parcel arrived I always took time to open it slowly and savour the personal touches that were added to my purchase.
I enjoyed [...]
Archive for the tag 'Kings Lynne'
Filed under Anecdotes, This & That
Hand Packed With Love
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 23rd 2025
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Norfolk 2022
Bank House
A brief history quoted from an information pack in our room at Bank House:
Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as one of the finest houses in King’s Lynn, Bank House was built in the early 18th Century for one of the King’s Lynn’s many rich and successful merchants. The house is Grade II* listed and is recognised [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 2nd 2023
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Norfolk 2022
Tower Gardens
The gardens are situation in what once was the friary orchard. When the friary was closed in 1538, the tower and the land around it passed to the Town Council.
Part of this land was never permanently built on. Tower Gardens was laid out in 1911 as a public park to commemorate the coronation of King [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Nov 1st 2023
Filed under Art, Holidays, Norfolk 2022
Meandering Mammoths
The dinosaurs confined themselves to Norwich city centre but the mammoths wandered further afield around Norfolk. I saw a few in the wilds and captured a couple meandering around Kings Lynne.
8 Comments CherryPie on Oct 26th 2023
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.
Paramahansa Yogananda
4 Comments CherryPie on Oct 1st 2023
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Norfolk 2022
Castle Rising
Castle Rising Castle is one of the most famous 12th Century castles in England. The stone keep, built in around 1140ad, is amongst the finest surviving examples of its kind anywhere in the country and, together with the massive surrounding earthworks, ensures that Rising is a castle of national importance.
In its time Rising has served [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 23rd 2023
