All Our Yesterdays in 2012, 2014 and 2018: Taking a look back through business memories in King’s Lynn, Downham Market and Brancaster Staithe
In our weekly All Our Yesterdays feature, we look back through the business pages of old editions of the Lynn News….
May 2012: The onslaught of high street chains, supermarkets and then the internet put paid to the majority of record shops throughout the country. But in Lynn, the Record Shop in St James Street, run by Tony Winfield, was still going strong – and it was like a candy store for musical vinyl lovers.
May 2012: Here are the winners and highly commended in the Mayor’s Design Awards in the Environment, pictured at Lynn Town Hall with the Mayor, Colin Sampson. The new pumping station at St Germans, opened in 2011, won the top prize.
May 2012: Staff at Lynn’s Sainsbury’s store donned reds and whites to celebrate St George’s Day, raising £100 in the process. The cheque was presented, appropriately enough to St George’s School, Dersingham, to be spent on new books. Store trainer Bob Colston and PR ambassador Jayne Dix hand over the cheque to house captains (from left) Scott Kimber, Charlotte Farey and George Lee.
May 2012: The team at Lynn-based radio station KL.FM were celebrating after winning a prestigious Sony Radio Academy award. Front from left are Adam Newstead, Hannah Griffiths and Simon Rowe; back from left Rose Newdick, Gemma Parnell, Lisa Whitaker, Jason Carter, Michelle Young and Melanie Stewart-Smith.
May 2012: It was Bucks Fizz all round as staff at the Duke’s Head Hotel in Lynn celebrated after gaining an AA four-star rating and the opening of the final phase of refurbishment at the hotel. From left are Sue Easdown, Rachel Tempest, Gez Chetal, Henry Bellingham MP, Rosy Chetal, Emma Semple, Michael Baldwin (general manager) and the Borough Mayor Colin Sampson.
May 2012: Staff at ‘EA Holidays’ in Compass House, Trenowath Place, Lynn, celebrate their first coach tour. From left: Tracey Lester (tour consultant), Pippa Hurley (tour manager), Michele Burgess (marketing manager) and Trish Sparks the managing director.
May 2014: Lynn’s Smiles Better dental practice, in Norfolk Street, broke new ground when recording two “firsts” in its eight-year-history. It had just been joined by its first male, dentist, Dr Luke Smith, and at the same time trainee dental nurse Jo Manning became its first apprentice to work there while undergoing training.
May 2014: Downham traders were reporting a boost in trade after parking charges were introduced at the Wales Court car park. Previously it had been a free car park and shoppers found it almost impossible to find a parking space.
May 2018: Macmillan Cancer Support had its funds boosted when staff at the White Horse pub in Brancaster Staithe – and its sister business The Jolly Sailors – handed over a cheque for more than £5,000 following a record-breaking year of fundraising. Watched by his staff White Horse general manager, Rob Williamson, presents the cheque to Sema Hussein from Macmillan.
May 2018: North West Norfolk MP, Sir Henry Bellingham, opened the new office of a construction industry training provider at the King’s Lynn Innovation Centre. Sheffield-based NOCN had bought the Cskills organisation from the CITB. Also in attendance was the Borough Mayor Carol Bower.
