Weekend away - part 2
Feb. 9th, 2008 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
suzyscottdotcomFollowing from last nights post, we spent the night at the Stuart House Hotel, Kings Lynn (see here). There is so much more to see when there is light… like, the view from the window…
So, after breakfast, we got packed up, and ready to go.
The driveway… that road at the end is Goodwins Road.
The Walks (i.e. the park by which you can walk to take a short cut towards the train station) was in the midst of redevelopment work, but there were quite a few ducks spotted…
Red Mount – also in the midst of refurbishment…
So, we walked via St Johns Terrace, Blackfriars Street, towards the pedestrianised area at New Conduit Street… and we ended up (almost) in Vancouver!
We continued down to Purfleet Quay – once the Custom House, now the TIC
Having then had a browse through what was around, we continued via King Street and down Ferry Lane to the steps of the passenger ferry across the River Great Ouse, looking towards West Lynn.
The boats run back-and-forward every 20 minutes (at least) during the day.
The timetable leaflet for the ‘West Lynn to Kings Lynn Ferry’ (operated by a private company called S N Kingston Marine Services) includes a brief history of the operation. There has been a ferry across the Great Ouse in the vicinity since at least 1285 – initially to avoid a twelve-mile detour through a then toll road at Wiggenhall St Germans (now the overland route is four miles). Within a hundred years, there were several boats crossing the river. By the late 1880’s, the service had transferred to it’s current location in Ferry Lane (Kings Lynn). In 1973, Norfolk County Council took on rights to the ferry, but it returned to private ownership in 1989 – 340 years after local authorities took it on initially. Reading the fully detailed version of that history actually takes longer than it does to make the crossing, less than a few minutes, at 60p Adult Single, or twice that for a return.
First picture I’ve taken of my beloved on a boat…
… and when we got to West Lynn, another resident moggy!
Here’s the Kings Lynn seafront, from the other side of the river…
… we walked along part of the Fen Rivers Way, across some fairly recent boardwalk. We sat at the seats facing down towards the TIC building, and talked and relaxed for a bit. On the walk back, here’s another one of C…
Inside of the waiting area, history panel on the right (also in the timetable leaflets)…
While we were waiting, I had a phone call from the chemist (see this post). Stock has now arrived, and in date this time! We’ll see on Monday. At this time, two locals were also waiting with dogs, so naturally the cat was no-where to be seen!
Me on the ferry – long hair gets in the way!
We arrived, and retraced our steps along Ferry Lane. Boards at the end point to the service.
We walked via King Street and St Nicholas Street, and pointed towards this hotel. Given that it was pink, we both thought it said DYKE’S Head… ☺
… anyway, I digress. After browsing books in Waterstones (normal service resumed!), Caroline left with a bag, and she said ‘I’ve got a surprise for you’ – a Little Miss Giggles bookmark…
… because she notices when I write ‘giggly’ under moods, right here on EllJay! We then stopped for coffee and lunch in Costa, before walking back via New Conduit Street etc. back to the train station. Had to grab one of the local buses, and as First are already represented enough in the photo skip, here’s one of the local Norfolk Green Optare Solo’s, just about to turn from St Johns Terrace towards the bus station.
We got back to the station with about 20 minutes to spare, so a few pics outside the station, before the iron road back at 1356 . Here’s Caroline…
… and me!
We travelled on time all the way down via all stations to Cambridge, before we had to change trains (as the one we’d got off was then non-stop to London, about 55 miles away). Platform 3 had a 1455 stopper to ‘Finsbury Park’ (i.e. through passengers to London are quicker getting the one we’d just left), and off this we saw another interesting poster board…
So, we got off bang on time in Royston at 1515, and walked home, getting in for just before 1530, having both had a wonderful weekend! You can see all the pictures that we took here.
(retro-blogged later, as we went for a nap after getting unpacked!)
So, after breakfast, we got packed up, and ready to go.
The driveway… that road at the end is Goodwins Road.
The Walks (i.e. the park by which you can walk to take a short cut towards the train station) was in the midst of redevelopment work, but there were quite a few ducks spotted…
Red Mount – also in the midst of refurbishment…
So, we walked via St Johns Terrace, Blackfriars Street, towards the pedestrianised area at New Conduit Street… and we ended up (almost) in Vancouver!
We continued down to Purfleet Quay – once the Custom House, now the TIC
Having then had a browse through what was around, we continued via King Street and down Ferry Lane to the steps of the passenger ferry across the River Great Ouse, looking towards West Lynn.
The boats run back-and-forward every 20 minutes (at least) during the day.
The timetable leaflet for the ‘West Lynn to Kings Lynn Ferry’ (operated by a private company called S N Kingston Marine Services) includes a brief history of the operation. There has been a ferry across the Great Ouse in the vicinity since at least 1285 – initially to avoid a twelve-mile detour through a then toll road at Wiggenhall St Germans (now the overland route is four miles). Within a hundred years, there were several boats crossing the river. By the late 1880’s, the service had transferred to it’s current location in Ferry Lane (Kings Lynn). In 1973, Norfolk County Council took on rights to the ferry, but it returned to private ownership in 1989 – 340 years after local authorities took it on initially. Reading the fully detailed version of that history actually takes longer than it does to make the crossing, less than a few minutes, at 60p Adult Single, or twice that for a return.
First picture I’ve taken of my beloved on a boat…
… and when we got to West Lynn, another resident moggy!
Here’s the Kings Lynn seafront, from the other side of the river…
… we walked along part of the Fen Rivers Way, across some fairly recent boardwalk. We sat at the seats facing down towards the TIC building, and talked and relaxed for a bit. On the walk back, here’s another one of C…
Inside of the waiting area, history panel on the right (also in the timetable leaflets)…
While we were waiting, I had a phone call from the chemist (see this post). Stock has now arrived, and in date this time! We’ll see on Monday. At this time, two locals were also waiting with dogs, so naturally the cat was no-where to be seen!
Me on the ferry – long hair gets in the way!
We arrived, and retraced our steps along Ferry Lane. Boards at the end point to the service.
We walked via King Street and St Nicholas Street, and pointed towards this hotel. Given that it was pink, we both thought it said DYKE’S Head… ☺
… anyway, I digress. After browsing books in Waterstones (normal service resumed!), Caroline left with a bag, and she said ‘I’ve got a surprise for you’ – a Little Miss Giggles bookmark…
… because she notices when I write ‘giggly’ under moods, right here on EllJay! We then stopped for coffee and lunch in Costa, before walking back via New Conduit Street etc. back to the train station. Had to grab one of the local buses, and as First are already represented enough in the photo skip, here’s one of the local Norfolk Green Optare Solo’s, just about to turn from St Johns Terrace towards the bus station.
We got back to the station with about 20 minutes to spare, so a few pics outside the station, before the iron road back at 1356 . Here’s Caroline…
… and me!
We travelled on time all the way down via all stations to Cambridge, before we had to change trains (as the one we’d got off was then non-stop to London, about 55 miles away). Platform 3 had a 1455 stopper to ‘Finsbury Park’ (i.e. through passengers to London are quicker getting the one we’d just left), and off this we saw another interesting poster board…
So, we got off bang on time in Royston at 1515, and walked home, getting in for just before 1530, having both had a wonderful weekend! You can see all the pictures that we took here.
(retro-blogged later, as we went for a nap after getting unpacked!)
