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In his weekly The Bar Man column, Jeff Hoyle looks at the town’s long-lost pubs… Look at the archives in True’s Yard or the excellent Norfolk Pubs website and you could conclude that at one time or another just about every building in the old part of Lynn was a pub. Lots of figures are bandied about. In 1892 the Kings Lynn Vigilance committee reported that there was one licenced house for every hundred inhabitants, equating to one in 22 houses. The committee was part of the temperance movement, so the figures that they published were designed to shock the authorities into action, something t…

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