Lynn Museum hosts a coffee morning on the last Wednesday of the month with a different theme each time: a chance to learn more about the museum collection, try a new craft and enjoy coffee and cake.
Only £1 or Free for Friends of Kings Lynn Museum (FKLM).
Just like a pub quiz but no sport nor celebs.
Instead: heritage, arts, literature, nature and local and general knowledge
And a warm, friendly atmosphere.
£5 per head including coffee and home-baked biscuits.
Proceeds in aid of Marriotts Warehouse Trust.
Details: 07582 037301
True's Talks 17th series: Water management in the Fens before windmills
28th February, 2019 –
True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum
North Street
PE30 1QW
Water had to be managed in the Fens long before windmills were developed. Prof Michael Chisholm explains how Fenmen accomplished the task.
Booking essential (True's Talks are very popular). No fee but donations to the True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum welcome.
King's Lynn Museum Afternoon Talk: Egyptology, a cabinet of curiosities
6th March, 2019 –
King's Lynn Museum
Market Street
King's Lynn, PE30 1NL
Join Samantha Parker (Norfolk Museum Service Curatorial Trainee) as she considers Egyptomania, Victorian collectors and how these fascinating objects have reached Lynn Museum’s collection.
Part of a series of free talks every Wednesday afternoon in March, booking is advised. To book your place please call us on 01553 775001 or email email hidden; JavaScript is required.
True's Talks 17th series: The sisters of Trinity Hospital
7th March, 2019 –
True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum
North Street
PE30 1QW
Dr Barry Blades tells of Trinity Hospital, Castle Rising and the sisters who live there.
Booking essential (True's Talks are very popular). No fee but donations to the True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum welcome.
King's Lynn Civic Society lecture: East of England Apples and Orchards Project
7th March, 2019
Thoresby College
The Great Hall
South Quay
Orchards and orchard fruit have been studied for many decades by a group of enthusiasts. Dr Tom Williamson, UEA, relates the initiative that builds on their work and on that carried by a range of partner organisations.
Members free - visitors £2.
Women Aloud - Celebrating International Women's Day
8th March, 2019 –
Town Hall
Saturday Market Place
PE30 5DQ
Guest speakers, stands, workshops, music, children's art and displays. Free event organised by Soroptimist International King's Lynn with kind permission of the Mayor of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
Enquiries: Kim 07771 798782 or Julie 07912 868917
Women Aloud - Celebrating International Women's Day
9th March, 2019 –
Town Hall
Saturday Market Place
PE30 5DQ
Guest speakers, stands, workshops, music, children's art and displays. Free event organised by Soroptimist International King's Lynn with kind permission of the Mayor of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
Enquiries: Kim 07771 798782 or Julie 07912 868917
The annual showcase of music making by King's Lynn primary schools on an around King's Lynn. They will be joined by the Norfolk Youth Orchestra and the Springwood Band.
Organised and sponsored by King's Lynn Trinity Rotary Club. Tickets £5 from the Corn Exchange Box Office, 01553 764864. All profits are distributed to the participating schools.
King's Lynn Museum Afternoon Talk: Early mechanised cooking equipment
13th March, 2019 –
King's Lynn Museum
Market Street
King's Lynn, PE30 1NL
Tony Weston (Norfolk Museum Service Research Associate) discusses the work and legacy of local craftsman Thomas Tue (1613-1710), and the remarkable creations invented within his workshop.
Part of a series of free talks every Wednesday afternoon in March, booking is advised. To book your place please call us on 01553 775001 or email email hidden; JavaScript is required.
FINGERPRINTS: STILL THE ONLY POSITIVE METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION
David Smith — Retired Senior Fingerprint Expert
Members free, visitors £4. Annual membership is £14 per person and new members can join at any time.
FINGERPRINTS: STILL THE ONLY POSITIVE METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION
David Smith — Retired Senior Fingerprint Expert
Members free, visitors £4. Annual membership is £14 per person and new members can join at any time.
Kings Lynn Cinema Club: What Language Do You Speak?
14th March, 2019
St George's Guildhall
29 King Street
PE30 1HA
Additional FREE event in conjunction with GroundWork Gallery and to coincide with the visit of the director Elisa Bracher. For many years, Elisa, a sculptor of significant renown in Brazil, has opened up her studio in Sao Paolo to poor children from the Favelas, to teach them life skills. Now called Atelie Acaia, it is a remarkable school in its own right. The film builds on that experience and interest in education and learning and how it happens.
Question and answer season with Elisa follows.
The film last 64 minutes and allows plenty of time for a meal before the showing of this season's foreign language film, Cold War.
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched. It is set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950’s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris. B&W (romantic drama)
Members free, day memberships available £5 on the door, all welcome.
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched. It is set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950’s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris. B&W (romantic drama)
Members free, day memberships available £5 on the door, all welcome.
Simon Mawer, Monisha Rajesh, Lydia Syson, Robert Edric, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, John Fuller, John Lucas and DJ Taylor.
Special guest Richard Blair, son of George Orwell on the seventieth anniversary of the publication of his father's seminal work Nineteen Eighty Four.
Calendar of events lynnlitfests.com. All tickets £8.50 - combined ticket for all £37.50. Booking: Hawkins Ryan Solicitors, 19 Tuesday Market Place, King's Lynn PE30 1JW; tel 01553 691661, office hours; by the website or at the door on the day.
Drs open 30minutes before each event - seats unreserved.
Simon Mawer, Monisha Rajesh, Lydia Syson, Robert Edric, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, John Fuller, John Lucas and DJ Taylor.
Special guest Richard Blair, son of George Orwell on the seventieth anniversary of the publication of his father's seminal work Nineteen Eighty Four.
Calendar of events lynnlitfests.com. All tickets £8.50 - combined ticket for all £37.50. Booking: Hawkins Ryan Solicitors, 19 Tuesday Market Place, King's Lynn PE30 1JW; tel 01553 691661, office hours; by the website or at the door on the day.
Drs open 30minutes before each event - seats unreserved.
Simon Mawer, Monisha Rajesh, Lydia Syson, Robert Edric, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, John Fuller, John Lucas and DJ Taylor.
Special guest Richard Blair, son of George Orwell on the seventieth anniversary of the publication of his father's seminal work Nineteen Eighty Four.
Calendar of events lynnlitfests.com. All tickets £8.50 - combined ticket for all £37.50. Booking: Hawkins Ryan Solicitors, 19 Tuesday Market Place, King's Lynn PE30 1JW; tel 01553 691661, office hours; by the website or at the door on the day.
Drs open 30minutes before each event - seats unreserved.
West Norfolk and King's Lynn Archaeological Society monthly lecture
19th March, 2019
Marriott's Warehouse
South Quay
PE30 5DT
The Snettisham Iron Age Hoard - shining light on old treasure. Speaker Dr Jody Joy, senior curator (archaeology), Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Visitors £3.00
West Norfolk and King's Lynn Archaeological Society monthly lecture
19th March, 2019
Marriott's Warehouse
South Quay
PE30 5DT
The Snettisham Iron Age Hoard - shining light on old treasure. Speaker Dr Jody Joy, senior curator (archaeology), Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Visitors £3.00
King's Lynn Museum Afternoon Talk: Medieval Floor Tiles
20th March, 2019 –
King's Lynn Museum
Market Street
King's Lynn, PE30 1NL
Monika Saganowska (Norfolk Museum Service Coastal Treasures Trainee) reflects upon the Bawsey tile collection held by the museum & other medieval highlights witnessed during her time working along the coast.
Part of a series of free talks every Wednesday afternoon in March, booking is advised. To book your place please call us on 01553 775001 or email email hidden; JavaScript is required.
King's Lynn Music Society: Recital, saxophone and piano.
20th March, 2019
Town Hall
Saturday Market Place
PE30 5DQ
Phillip Attard, saxophonist and graduate of the Royal College of Music with pianist Christine Zerefa. Supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.
Coffee available thirty minutes before the event.
Visitor's fee £10; free to full-time students and under 18s. Annual membership £50.
True's Talks 17th series: Whales, Whaling and Lynn's Greenland Fishery
21st March, 2019 –
True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum
North Street
PE30 1QW
Jon Jackson, who resides in the ancient Greenland Fishery tells of the town's whaling industry and the men who operated it.
Booking essential (True's Talks are very popular). No fee but donations to the True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum welcome.
Close-Ups Events - Songs, Soundtrack Albums and Psychedelia: Film Scoring in the 1960s
The end of the US studio system, a revitalised British film industry, and the emergence of pop music as a cultural force; It was a perfect storm. Squeeze into your best bellbottoms and spend two hours with writer and teacher Christopher Budd exploring how composers and filmmakers on both sides of the Atlantic tackled the challenges and opportunities of film scoring in the decade which took us from West Side Story to Midnight Cowboy, from Psycho to Planet of The Apes, and from How The West Was Won to Zabriskie Point.
Members & guests £5 Non-Members £6 includes refreshments
Close-Ups Events - Songs, Soundtrack Albums and Psychedelia: Film Scoring in the 1960s
The end of the US studio system, a revitalised British film industry, and the emergence of pop music as a cultural force; It was a perfect storm. Squeeze into your best bellbottoms and spend two hours with writer and teacher Christopher Budd exploring how composers and filmmakers on both sides of the Atlantic tackled the challenges and opportunities of film scoring in the decade which took us from West Side Story to Midnight Cowboy, from Psycho to Planet of The Apes, and from How The West Was Won to Zabriskie Point.
Members & guests £5 Non-Members £6 includes refreshments
Norfolk Symphony Orchestra, concert American Greats
24th March, 2019
St Nicholas Chapel
St Ann's St
King's Lynn, PE30 1LT
A feast of American greats. Copland Fanfare for the Common Man; George Gershwin Piano Concerto in F; Philip Glass Company; Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Soloist Viv McLean.
Norfolk Symphony Orchestra is once again giving away 100 free tickets to under 18s for this concert (call the box office to get this offer). Tickets £16, under 18s free available from the box office 01553 764864 or online at www.kingslynncornexchange.co.uk.
Lynn Museum hosts a coffee morning on the last Wednesday of the month with a different theme each time: a chance to learn more about the museum collection, try a new craft and enjoy coffee and cake.
Only £1 or Free for Friends of Kings Lynn Museum (FKLM). Details 01553 775001
Just like a pub quiz but no sport nor celebs.
Instead: heritage, arts, literature, nature and local and general knowledge
And a warm, friendly atmosphere.
£5 per head including coffee and home-baked biscuits.
Proceeds in aid of Marriotts Warehouse Trust.
Details: 07582 037301
Lynn Museum afternoon talk: A Natural History of Lynn Museum
27th March, 2019 –
King's Lynn Museum
Market Street
King's Lynn, PE30 1NL
Andrew Tullett (Norfolk Museum Service Coastal Treasures Trainee) discusses of all creatures great and small and how they relate to the displays and collections at Lynn Museum
Part of a series of free talks every Wednesday afternoon in March, booking is advised. To book your place please call us on 01553 775001 or email email hidden; JavaScript is required.
Test your memory - and help the homeless. Big prizes, home-cooked buffet, fun occasion. Entry £8 to include food prepared by the Purfleet Pantry.
The Eagle in Norfolk Street which runs regular popular quiz nights is devoting the evening to the Purfleet Trust and plans to raise a hefty sum which will all go the trust's work.
Tickets from The Eagle and from the trust, Pathway House, Austin Fields 01553 767829
Hidden Treasures in Norfolk Churches. Diana Bullock Memorial Lecture
27th March, 2019
Town Hall
Saturday Market Place
PE30 5DQ
At the Diana Bullock memorial lecture John Vigar will reveal the hidden treasures that are contained in Norfolk churches - of which there are myriad.
Tickets - to include a glass of wine - are £8 each and available from 01553 776632. King's Lynn Tourist Information Centre, 01553 763044 and from town guides.
True's Talks 17th series: Merchants of Georgian and Victorian Lynn
28th March, 2019 –
True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum
North Street
PE30 1QW
The Bagges were one of the most important merchant families in King's Lynn - and they are here to this day. Lynn historian Dr Paul Richards tells their story.
Booking essential (True's Talks are very popular). No fee but donations to the True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum welcome.
King's Lynn Male Voice Choir and King's Lynn Town Band combine to present Songs of Praise. Guest vocalist.
Tickets £12, with £4 from each being donated to support King's Lynn's Night Shelter. Tickets from: choir treasurer Ian Watts 07526 648109; Geoffrey Collings and Co, Blackfriars Street, 01553 774135; True's Yard Museum, North St, 01553 770479; Artertons Furnishings, High St, 01553 776659 and on the door.
Based on Anton Chekhov’s play. An aging actress named Irina pays Summer visits to her brother Pjotr and her son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings Trigorin, a successful novelist, with her. Trigorin lightly consumes and rejects innocent local girl, Nina, just as the actress all her life has consumed and rejected her son, who loves Nina. The victims are destroyed while the sophisticates continue on their way. (drama)
Members free, day memberships available £5 on the door, all welcome.
Based on Anton Chekhov’s play. An aging actress named Irina pays Summer visits to her brother Pjotr and her son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings Trigorin, a successful novelist, with her. Trigorin lightly consumes and rejects innocent local girl, Nina, just as the actress all her life has consumed and rejected her son, who loves Nina. The victims are destroyed while the sophisticates continue on their way. (drama)
Members free, day memberships available £5 on the door, all welcome.
An Afternoon with David Palmer - 'Flog It', 'Bargain Hunt' and 'Cash in the Attic'.
30th March, 2019
Ffolkes Arms
Lynn Road
Hillingdon, PE31 6BJ
Known to his many television audiences, David Palmer will entertain with his experiences of his life as an auctioneer and will value treasured items. Organised by Soroptimists International King's Lynn, all proceeds to Home Star Norfolk. Tickets, £25 to include afternoon tea. Advance tickets only from Marion 01553 617494 email: email hidden; JavaScript is required
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