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Welchman & Carrick, solicitors, 13 South side & at Upwell WisbechHumanoSociety(Jn.Leach,hon.treas.&sec. ),26High .it Welcome Coffee tavern & Sailors' home (Mrs. Rebecca Wisbech & Permanent Benefit Building Society Miller, manageress), Nene quay (John Leach, sec.), High street Wells Thomas & Sons, builders, Bedford street Wishech (Petty Sessional Division) Liberal .Association White Lion family & commercial & temperance hotel & (Wm.House & A. F. Parker, registration agnts. ), Up. Hill st posting house, livery stables &c. (Mrs. Sarah Stockdale, Wisbech Liberal Association (George Dawbarn esq. presi­ manageress), South brink dent; William M. Bolton, jun. hon. sec.), Upper Hill at White Thomas, beer retailer, 15 North end Wisbech Lighting Co. (George Dawharn, chairman 1 Robert White William, auctioneer, valuer, land, house & estate John Sharman, mangr. ; Robt. Dawbarn, clerk),Eastfield agent, Bridge buildings Wisbech & Lincolnshire Bank (head office) (Gurney, Birk­ White William, farmer, Bevis hall, North brink beck1 Peckover & Bnxton), Old Market; draw on Barclay, Whitehead George William, Griffin P.H. & wine & spirit Bevan & Co. London E c merchant, 41 Market place Wisbech Manure Association(Robt Dl'l. wbarn, sec.),4Crescent Whitehead Thomas Jn. timber, slate & builders' merchant, Wisbech Phoonix: Co-operative Society Lim. (Philip Powley, Queen's road, South brink manager), Norfolk street east Whitethread John, market gardener, Colville road Wisbech Public Hall Co.(Alfd.Southwell, sec.),Upper Hill st Whitmore George, boot & shoe maker, 43 Market place Wi.sbech Radical Club (William House, sec.), Upper Hill st . Wicks John, wheelwright, .Albion place Wisbech Standard (published friday afternoon), Bridge Wilkinsons, Smith & Co. ship & insurance brokers & coal & buildings'. See advertisement salt exporters, 5 Cornhill Wisbech Standard Newspaper Co. (Harry Edward Beale, Wilkinson Robert F. grocer, 9 Little Church street manager), Bridge buildings WilsonMary.Ann(Miss),Iadies' boarding & day schl.2Crescent Wisbech Telegraph (gratis supplement to lsle of Ely & Wilson William, baker & corn dealer, 3 & 4 Old Market Wisbech .Advertiser) (Gardiner & Co. publishers; pub­ Wilson Wm. coal mer. & manure manufctr. 23 Old Market lished every saturday), Union street. See advertisement Winfield Frederick, general dealer, 37 Norfolk street east Wisbcch & Main Sewerage Board (Francis J ackson, Winter & Plimsaul, pianoforte warehouse, I Ely pl.Crescent clerk ; George Thorpe, surveyor ; Stephen Sharpe & Tom Winter Mary .Ann (1\fiss), teacher of music, I Ely pl. Crescent Emmett Robhins, collectors), r8 Lower Hill street Winterton William, auctioneer, valuer, land & estate agent, Wiseman WilJiam, chimney sweeper, 30 Upper Hill street . Exchange square & at Walpole St . ..Peter Wood William Goffe, shopkeeper, 26 Great South street Wisbech Annual Fat Stock Show (George James Moore, Woodhouse Henry James, coal dealer, 7 Norfolk st. west sec.), Club chambers Woods Thomas, wardrobe dealer, 14 Great South street Wisbech Burial Ground (Francis Jackson,clerk to the burial Wootton John, english timber merchant, Lynn road board, 18 Lower Hill street; Jabez: Taylor, ground Working Men's Club & Institute (William Pannifer, halt keeper), Mount Pleasant keeper ; Miss Poolcy, librarian), t7 Lower Hill street Wisbech CemP-tery (Alfred Southwell, sec.; Thomas Powley, Worth Richard, greengrocer, 7 Blackfriars road superintendent), Leverington road Wright Ann (Mrs.), rope maker, 2I Lower Hill street Wisbech Conservative Club (Henry Farrow esq. chairman ; Wright Charles, Royal hotel, 25 Church terrace William A. Dawson, sec. ; Jarnes .Adkins, steward), rg Wright Edward, boot maker, 7 East street Great Church street Wright Edward, shopkeeper, Horse fair Wisbcch Constitutional Gazette, Lynn .Advertiser & Cam­ Wright Oliver, hay & straw dealer, 17 Little South street bridgeshire & Norfolk Herald (Leach & Son, publishers; Wright Thomas, shopkeeper, II Great South street published every friday evening), 26 High st. Sec advert Wright William James (firm, Fraser, Wright & F'raser). Wisbech Corn Exchange Co. Lim. (Francis J ackson, sec.), solicitor, commissioner to administer oaths in the 18 Lower Hill street Supreme Court & clerk to Sutton Bridge local board &; WisbechCorpuratiunEstate(Wm.N ewsham, agt. ),Old:\iarket Tydd St. James school board, 29 Old Market Wisbcch District Chamber of Agriculture (Thomas Dearlovc Yates Jamcs, brewer, Oak brewery, Leverington road Dearlove, president; Geo.Jas.Moure, sec.), I Bridge street Yaxley James, boot & shoe warehouse, 29 High street Wisbcch Division Conservative Association (John Leach esq. Yeeles Margaret (Mrs.), dressmaker & milliner, 36 Norfolk sec. ; Wm. A. Dawson, registration agent), 9 Crescent street east Wisbech .Fire Brigade (George Thorpe, captain; James Young Servants' Help Society Free Registry Office (Mrs, Archer, superintendent), Lower Hill street Matilda Williamson, agent), 23 Upper Hill street Wisbech Fruit Preserving Co. Lim. jam manufrs. Bedford st Young Thomas, farmer, South brink Wisbech (.Arthur William Poyser M.A. Young William, boot & shoe maker, Golding street head master), Upper H1ll street

WISBECH ST. MARY is a parish, with a station on of poor labourers, who pay IS. each yearly for them. The the and Lynn section of the Midland railway, rentals of lands let to the poor are applied to the poor relief 3 miles south-west of Wisbech, in the Northern division of fund. The charities enumerated are enjoyable by the the county, Wisbech hundred, union, petty sessional division whole of the parishioners of Wisbech St. Mary. The and county court district, rural deanery of Wisbech, and in Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are lords of the manor, the peculiar archidiaconal jurisdiction of the , the Duke of Somerset K.G. the Duke of Bedford, the Isle of Ely. The civil parish includes the ecclesiastical dis­ Right Hon. Hugh Culling Eardley Childers P.c., M.P. tricts of GUYHIRN and MuRROW (which will be found under the Lady Henry Thynne, the Rev. James Bellamy D.D. separate headings), and the hamlets of THORNEY ToLL and president of tlt. John's College, Oxford, the Rev. THOLOMAS DROVE, and a portion of WISBRCH FEN. The Francis Cotton Marshall, rector of Little Wilbraham, the church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice of brick and stone Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, St. Peter's College, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, restored in Cambridge, Guy's Hospital, London, Thomas Williamson 1873 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, clcrestoried nave, esq. and Algernon Peckover esq. of Wishech, are the aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower contain­ principal landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The ing a clock and 5 bells : there are a number of curious chiof crops are wheat, oats, peas, potatoes and root crops. brackets, and in the south porch the' remains of an The area is 9,720 acres; rateable value, £17,I26; th"popu­ unusually large stoup : the church affords 36o sittings. The lation in 1891 was 1887. register dates from the year I557· The living i11 a vicarage, · THOLOMAS DHOVE is a hamlet 2 miles south-west of average tithe rent-charge £63I, net yearly value, £277, Wisbech St. Mary. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. with residence and 12 acres of glebe, in the gift of the The school room, formerly belonging to the tru$ees of the Bishop of Ely, and held since I882 by the Rev. Richard Grammar School, founded by Francis Barely, has been fitted Devereux Jones M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. The up as a mission chapel, and Divine service is conducted here living is at present subject to a pension of £230 to the every Sunday afternoon by the vicar. late vicar. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. The THORNEY ToLL is a hamlet 7! miles west from the parish charities include 61 acres left A.B. I593 by Mr. Bend, with church, and is included in the ecclesiastical parish of Guy­ 8 acres added by the commissioners of the Bedford Level hirn, U:Jr which see. There is a Free Methodist Chapel in (temp. Charle!l II. ), comprising, with other lands, 75 acres, the Fen, at a place called " The .Alley." the rents of which, about £240 yearly, are given to the Sexton, Thomas Mote. poor; 2I acres of land left in I726 by FrancisHardy for the POST & TELEGRAPH 0FFICE.-James Weldon, receiver. eadowment of a school for the parishioners; £5o left in Letters arrive through Wisbech at 4.30 a.m.; are dis­ I6o5 by Mrs. Bend, the interest to be given-two-thirds to patehed at 8.45 p.m. The nearest money order office is this parish and one-third to l"arson Drove; in I833-4 25A. at Wisbech. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid 3R. 26P. of land were allotted by the Enclosure Commis­ National School (mixed), erected in 1859, for I40 children ; sioners, to be let in small lots to the ~or of this parish at average attendance, 100: Henry George Savory, master nominal rentals: 15 cottages have been erected for the use Railway Station, Rupert Ward Kit.chin, station master C. N. & s. 12•