Wisbech Now

Musings on Wisbech and other places, their dark side and, hopefully some lighter moments. Dubbed "spiteful and malevolent"by a local journalist. Born in 1947

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A short film about a lost railway line and station. Both were literally a few feet away from where my house now stands.https://t.co/a8L7EZxQgs

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The main course here is the mysterious murder of an apparently harmless woman, but there are some tasty sides, including the love life of Périgord copper Bruno Courreges, his attempt to revive the local economy, and a sumptuous Mechoui barbecue
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Remembering Pte Leslie Wiles, 2nd South Staffordshire Regiment. Killed in action on this day in 1918, age 24. Formerly 1168 Cambridgeshire Regiment. Son of Mr and Mrs W Wiles, Station Road, Wisbech. Bienvillers Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais #WisbechWarMemorial

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Remembering Pte William Evans, 1st Suffolk Regiment. Died of wounds on this day in 1915, Norwich. Lived Wellington Terrace. Wisbech Borough Cemetery #WisbechWarMemorial

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We are reminded here of those six weeks in the late summer of 1914, when the British Army's presence in France was tiny compared to the behemoths of France and Germany, let alone the Russian millions to the east.
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This remains a masterpiece of narrative history. Barbara Tuchman makes us flies on the wall in cabinet meeting rooms across Europe, and hidden observers within General Staff offices of the armies of Germany, Britain, France and Russia.
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Murder is murder, whether it is done in a city council estate, or the supposed tranquility of rural Norfolk. Here, the constabulary - and a former copper - investigate the death of an aristocrat
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Remembering Pte Albert Roper, B Company, 1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died of wounds on this day in 1915. Son of William & Susannah Roper, Chapel Lane, Elm, Cambs. Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard #WisbechWarMemorial

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01 Remembering Pte John Mason 11th (Cambs) Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action on this day in 1917. Lived Blakes Passage, Wisbech. Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais #WisbechWarMemorial

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Remembering Pte Herbert Pollington, 6th Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action on this day in 1917. Son of the late John & Rebecca Pollington. Arras Memorial, France.

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Remembering Pte William Lewin, 9th Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action on this day in 1918. Lived Old Market, Wisbech. Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No 3, Belgium.

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24 Remembering Pte Percy Rudd, 1st Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action on this day in 1915. Youngest son of Mrs J Mann (formerly Rudd), 5 Milner Road, Wisbech. Step-son of late Pte John Mann. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

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Remembering Pte John Payne. 1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died on this day in 1921, age 33. Wounded in 1916, discharged 21-9-17. Husband of Florence May Payne, of Toll House, Rings End. Postman in Rings End. Parents lived March. Guyhirn Old Churchyard, Cambs.

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Colour me shocked .... Afghans involved in sexual perversion? Surely not https://t.co/nQGSrY9P2A

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Remembering Pte Thomas Burgess, 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment. Died of wounds on this day in 1918, age 32, POW. Wife lived 1 Hampden Walk, Chase Street. Berlin South-Western Cemetery, Germany

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Remembering Pte Ernest Hicks, 1st Norfolk Regiment. Died of wounds on this day in 1915, age 40. Lived 4 Artillery Street, Wisbech. Blauwepoort Farm Cemetery.

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Remembering L/Cpl Herbert Saunders, 1st Rifle Brigade (C company). Killed in action on this day in 1918. Lived Norfolk Street, Wisbech. Le Vertannoy British Cemetery, Hinges, Pas de Calais, France.

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Remembering Pte Percy Kitchen, 1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died of wounds on this day in 1915, Manchester (wounded 5-5-15), age 19. Lived 25 Leverington Road, Wisbech. Leverington Road Cemetery, Wisbech, Cambs.

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Remembering Pte Horace James, 2nd Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Rgt). Killed in action on this day in 1918, age 19, Kemmel. Son of Mrs E A James, of Broad Drove, South Brink, Wisbech. Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinghe, Belgium.

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Remembering Pte Matthew Roffe, 1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died of wounds on this day in 1916, age 28. Carpenters Arms Yard, Wisbech. Bethune Town Cemetery, France.

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Remembering Cpl Herbert Meynell, 1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died of wounds on this day in 1915, No 2 General Hospital, Le Havre, aged 18. Lived with his grandmother in Tydd. Son of Mrs Annie Buckingham, 12 World's End, Wisbech. Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, France.