Wisbech and Fenland Museum
David Wright, curator of Wisbech and Fenland Museum talks about the museum and the important role played by Fenland District Council in maintaining its collections and exhibits.
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Wisbech - Cambridgeshire GoPro Session 5 @ 2.7K - Part 1
Fenland Jobs and Skills Fair, Wisbech
Short film from The Fenland Jobs and Skills Fair at the Queen Mary Centre in Wisbech.
ShapeYourPlace.org -- giving a voice to communities in Cambridgeshire
Wisbech - Cambridgeshire GoPro Session 5 @ 2.7k - Part 2
Visit to Wisbech & Kings Lynn (2011)
A visit to the East Anglian towns of Wisbech and Kings Lynn in 2011. Shot on a mid-range Fuji compact camera whose forte was not video. it nevertheless allowed me to capture a happy day out.
Wisbech Lament
A plea from the heart to the couldn't-care-less representatives who continue to let our town decay. Not that they will pay any attention - the election is ages away!
WISBECH MUSEUM IN THE HEART OF THE FENS
WISBECH MUSEUM
Farming Clip from 'Memories from the Fen'. mp4
Working with a professional film-maker, students from Abbey College in Ramsey have interviewed, filmed and re-enacted local people's memories of growing up in the Fen. From memories of wartime, to farming on hands and knees, the full 37 mins film includes dramatisations, and archive photos and film, including footage of the large copper butterfly, now extinct in the UK. The film release is planned for March 2012, with local film showings beginning in March. Visit greatfen.org.uk for updates. To watch this film in High Definition on YouTube, in the bottom right corner of video box, in the grey band, click on your current setting (e.g. 360pp) and then select 720 HD. Note: some computers may not have the processing power to do this.
Wisbech Tower Ballroom - What is your name? Did you work here?
Becky and Kath both ask a different question and both get a response. Will need headphones.
Time Credits, The Wisbech Story.
A short film, showing the success of Time Credits in Wisbech.
Time Credits was piloted in Wisbech in 2013 and will be rolled out during the summer 2014.
A Husk of Hares - Interviews
Interviews with David Wright, Sue Welfare, John Wiltshire and Roger Coleman at the launch of the Husk of Hares exhibition at Wisbech and Fenland Museum on June 22 2013.
Fenland Aviation Museum
Radio Norfolks treasure quest visit fawnaps
1987 Wisbech Half Marathon 29 March
The 1987 Wisbech Half Marathon organised by the Rotary Club as an unofficial skating event mixed in with runners.
Monewden Airfield Open Day 28th August 2017
Visiting aircraft arriving at the Monewden Airfield Open Day 28th August 2017
Bruce Close, Wisbech - commemoration ceremony on Remembrance Sunday 2011
Four Wisbech brothers all died in action in the service of their country during the Second World War. No other Wisbech family made such a sacrifice. Reginald and Arthur Bruce were killed in Normandy, Thomas Bruce died at Dunkirk and George Bruce died when his destroyer was torpedoed.
Some years ago Colin Malkin, nephew of the brothers, read in one of the local newspapers that the local council had decided to mark the Falklands conflict by naming new developments in the town after the sites of some of the significant battles. In a letter to the editor he made it known that he thought the council should first of all properly honour the sons of Wisbech killed during the Second World War and he began his campaign to gain recognition for his four uncles. It has been a long campaign, fought in the best of British traditions -- he never gave up. Failure would have been easy. There was little interest or encouragement from official sources and, had he not been so persistent, his efforts could easily have been in vain. He kept plugging away -- letters to the press, nudging the council. Just before this very day last year we contacted the then vice chairman of Fenland District Council, Cllr Michael Humphrey, who, we discovered, was to be laying the council wreath at Wisbech War Memorial. We asked him to pay particular attention to the names of the fallen on that memorial, and especially the name Bruce.
He was intrigued and soon became aware of the story of the Bruce brothers. He vowed to help. After a couple more false starts along came a planning application from Mark Turner, Sheila Turner and Bob Mitchell for this housing development. Cllr Humphrey seized the opportunity and the developers immediately agreed to the name Bruce Close. The Brothers' name will live on in Wisbech. Bruce Close will be here long after we have gone. And, in the future, people will want to know why Bruce Close is so called. They will wonder who it is named after and, because some people will always be intrigued, they will discover the heroic story of Wisbech's Bruce brothers.
They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun,
And in the morning
We will remember them.
Wisbech joint-boss Dick Creasey