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• Esdelle Works

  https://www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/article/30259/Esdelle-Works

  Learn more about the Esdelle Works, where Edwards and Holmes made shoes

• Riverside Works

  https://www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/article/30260/Riverside-Works

  Learn more about the Riverside Works, which housed the constructional engineering, joinery and wire netting departments of Boulton and Paul

• Building Seahenge

  https://www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/article/30261/Building-Seahenge

  Seahenge was built by people living and farming near the saltmarshes. In the Early Bronze Age, people would have lived in small farming communities. Their homes...

• The changing landscape

  https://www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/article/30262/The-changing-landscape

  Although revealed on a beach, the timber circle originally stood in a very different environment.  Over the last 3000 years, the sea has encroached on the land ...

• Conserving Seahenge

  https://www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/article/30263/Conserving-Seahenge

  As soon as they emerged from the sands of Holme beach, the timbers began to decay. Originally preserved by a thick layer of peat, they were now exposed to a num...

• Holme II

  https://www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/article/30264/Holme-II

  In 1999, during the excavation of Seahenge, a second circle was discovered on Holme Beach. Named Holme II, this circle was found about 100 metres away from the ...

• Victorian shoes: 1800s

  https://www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/article/30266/Victorian-shoes-1800s

  Before the mass production of shoes, towns like King's Lynn had their own craftsmen who made and mended boots and shoes. 'White's Norfolk Directory' of 1845 lis...

• Walking jewellery: 1920s

  https://www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/article/30267/Walking-jewellery-1920s

  During the Roaring Twenties women's fashion altered dramatically. Dresses and skirts got shorter. As hemlines rose women's shoes became a fashion focal point. T...

• Ready-to-wear: 1930s

  https://www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/article/30268/Ready-to-wear-1930s

  In the 1930s women's fashions became simpler. Slingback sandals were popular. During this period the look of the High Street changed. Department stores such as ...

• Footwear during the war years: 1940s

  https://www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/article/30269/Footwear-during-the-war-years-1940s

  When war was declared in 1939 many King's Lynn men signed up to fight. Women of the town assumed new, important roles such as working in factories and in agricu...

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