Meeting Reports

At the October meeting we were delighted to welcome Gilli Galloway to talk to us about two local and well-known institutions – the Queen Elizabeth

After the Summer recess, our new Society Year started with our AGM, followed by a presentation from Jonathan Farmer on Researching Military History prior to

Our July meeting was an outing to St Leonard’s Church, Leverington. A church with a very impressive looking tower in the village just outside Wisbech.

I’m sure we can all visualise the stereotypical pirate (peg-leg, eye-patch and parrot 😊) and probably think we don’t have any in our ancestry. However,

Diane gave us another of her wonderful talks bringing history to life. Her talk was based on her next Fenland Mystery book ‘Back to the

Many people know Hereward as Hereward the Wake, taken from the novel by Charles Kingsley. Alan came along to try and dispel some of the

 February Meeting  Unfortunately, our original speaker for this meeting, Grenville Goodson from the Littleport Society, was unable to attend for health reasons. We wished him

As most members know, Kevin is a prolific writer on Wisbech local history. He owned up that after publishing a book he tries to forget

We were delighted when one of our local genealogists came to our meeting with a presentation about apprenticeship records. This is one of the courses

In recent years, Andy Ketley has had a project to review and update the work “The Inns & Taverns of Wisbech” by Arthur Oldham. Andy

Following our presentation from Chris Donald last October, we persuaded him to give us a tour of one of our local treasures, the Friends Meeting

Imagine you are arriving in Madras for the first time, alone, and you are 9 years old! This is how the working life of Thomas