For two days there had been a commotion of business operations. It was the morning of Boxing Day everything was perfectly quiet and the inhabitants, or many of them, were gently slumbering. High street – that portion extending from New Conduit street to the Saturday Marketplace – was the scene of the conflagration. What a striking comment on the text announced little more than 24 hours previously by a preacher who stood in one of the Free Church pulpits of the town – “Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!” Where there existed early on Monday morning huge trading concerns, there was, not many hours afterwards, nothing but a heap of smoking, blackened and charred ruins. There is a huge gap on each side of the street, and the openings created extend for a considerable distance right and left of the street. Its ravages were enormous, and as a result one of the principal business thoroughfares of the town has had entirely obliterated from it a number of premises occupied by tradesmen in various lines while others have been so seriously damaged that some of them will have to be demolished. The most disastrous and extensive fire ever known to have occurred in King’ Lynn broke out on Monday. Transcription of the article appearing in the Lynn News and Norfolk County Press, Saturday, 1 st January 1898.
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