June 2025: Susanah Farmer – Elgood’s – a local and family history of the oldest brewery in Cambridgeshire
Susanah gave an insight into the history of the brewery on North Brink, as well as the Elgood family that have run it since 1878. The brewery known as Elgood’s starts from John Elgood who came from a from a farming and trading family originating in Cransford, Suffolk. In 1878 John Elgood in partnership with George […]
May 2025: Going to School in Medieval Fenland – Diane Calton-Smith
After imagining ourselves as a 14-year-old boy in June 1423, attending the Wisbech Grammar School which was held in the small room above the porch of the church of St Peter and St Paul, we followed him throughout the day in his school work and family and community life. Diane brings to life the history and […]
April 2025: Alan Johnson – From Wisbech to the World – The Truman Diaspora
In April we were pleased to welcome Alan Johnson to talk to us about the TRUMAN family. Before the railways the main travellers around the country were the drovers who travelled from all over the UK to London, Smithfield with their livestock. Jonathan TRUMAN b. 24 September 1748 was one such drover. Alan’s family still […]