Trip to Wisbech ... October 2014

[chenrezig]

I have been visiting Wisbech probably since I was born (in 1958 lol), until my Great-Aunt Ada passed away in 1993. This visit was one of my get-round-to-its’ and I decided that last Saturday was the day to do it. It meant getting up at 5.30am , 6.30am bus into the city, just making the 7.20am X1 to Wisbech . The bus trip took 2 hours and twenty minutes –  to think it had taken a mere one and a quarter hours by car the last time I went (the first time it would have been by train from Norwich to March, then March to Wisbech).

I started off at “Freedom Bridge” neat the Horsefair Shopping Centre (site of the old Fire Station as I knew it), one of my fav pics of dear Dad and our lurcher was taken here …



… working my way along the River Nene



to the North and South Brinks – the birthplace of Octavia Hill, one of the founders of the National Trust was born here ..


Peckover House was used in the film Dean Spanley  - it has a huge garden out the back… that is the one with all the green plants round the door …



Near there is the memorial designed by George Gilbert Scott, to Thomas Clarkson, a local man who helped end the Slave Trade



Then up to the Crescent where the Town’s WW1 memorial is located



Then to the local museum –still free to enter ..


They have some beautiful galleries –almost worth a visit just to look at the old display cases



A couple of the exhibits …



Then to Wisbech Church, dedicated to St’s Peter and Paul



Up til at least 2005, in the church was the only national memorial to all the FEWPOW’s



I ended my trip with a visit to a wool shop that we always got Great-Aunt Ada some wool … it was supposed to be closing in Oct 2013 but amazingly still there …

[annie]

tha22222,for sharing your pics , looks a great place to visit, Liz

[maureenho]

Some nice old buildings there, great photos Liz  tha22222

[Rosalind]

Great photos Liz, tha22222.

[pamella]

lovely photos    thank you


Pamella

[chenrezig]

I will try and get some of the videos I took onto Youtube tomorrow ..

[Honey]

tha22222 liz, lovely pics.
x

[chenrezig]

In spite of the wet weather, and the sadness at not being able to see my great-aunt's flat one last time, I really did enjoy the day as it brought back lots of happy memories - if it makes sense I feel I have finished a chapter in a book ... ? You will think I have gone doollalli, but my fav bit of the day was seeing the sign for the "Freedom Bridge" - It is where one of my very, very fav pics of Dad was taken - I have been ploughing through all the photos I have and have finally found it !

This is the one I took last Saturday ...



...and this is the one taken in 1983 (and not 1893 as my dear great-aunt has written on the back lol)

[Rosalind]

Lovely photos Liz and nice memories. hu****

[wendy]

just beautiful.
thank you for sharing with us

[maureenho]

Lovely memories for you Liz, was it your dog thats in the photo with your dad Liz.

[chenrezig]

Yup, that was our lurcher from the RSPCA, we had him nearly 17 years ...  called Sunny when we got him and it suited his nature so much we didn't want to change it