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• John Crome's reputation

  https://www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/article/30257/John-Cromes-reputation

  There are many factors at work in the waxing and waning fortunes of Crome's reputation over the last two hundred years. Fashion and taste, exhibitions and champ...

• 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 ...

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