Meeting Reports

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.

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

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

The meeting in March was a Members’ Meeting to which we were invited to bring along examples of the creation and storage of our family

In February we welcomed Kevin Rodgers for a return visit to the Society.  On this occasion Kevin came to talk to us about the history

November 2024 – Members’ Meeting Our annual social evening again saw a lively get-together with members sharing stories and the results of their research with everyone,

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