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From: "Lisa Koelink" <>
Subject: Re: [WISBECH] Re: ENG-WISBECH-AREA-D Digest V05 #43
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 18:58:31 +0100 (GMT Standard Time)
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Thank you Donia for that information.
Trouble is, where was it? Was Providence Row named after it? Was it the
road that the Chapel was on?
My husband has now taken some pictures of the area around Norfolk Street
West, so that is what I have at the moment, until the next time.
It would be so good though to find out where Providence Row actually was.
Thanks again
Lisa
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From: Donia Stick
Date: 06/03/05 18:35:25
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Subject: [WISBECH] Re: ENG-WISBECH-AREA-D Digest V05 #43

I was in the record office in Cambridge today idling away some time looking
at books about Wisbech to get a picture of what is was like there in the
late 1830s and I came across a mention of the Primitive Methodist Chapel
which was called Providence - I don't know if that's any help at all.
Donia
(Researching FLINT in Holbeach, Wisbech, Bethnal Green, Walthamstow and
Southend-on-Sea)





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Subject : ENG-WISBECH-AREA-D Digest V05 #43
Thank you Elizabeth very much.
I already have the 1830 map of Wisbech, bought from the museum while I was
there a year ago.
Providence Row is not on it, wouldn't you know!
Thanks for the input about the area though, I guessed it was not a very
affluent one.
I am going to have him take pictures of Norfolk Street West, and East anyway
as I know one of them was the old Timber Market.
Regards
Lisa

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From: elizabeth lee pugh
Date: 06/01/05 15:42:39
To: Lisa Koelink
Subject: Re: Providence Row and Timber Market, Wisbech

Hello Lisa
While your husband is in Wisbech tell him to go to either the library or
museum (next door to each other) - or even the tourist place next to the
Post Office near Clarkson's memorial - and get you a copy of the 1830 map of
Wisbech. I am not sure where they sell it. It is very inexpensive (maybe
£2?) and is great for finding old streets and seeing what the town looked
like.
I would think that the south end of Norfolk Street was a poorer area. I
can't find Providence Row, but it seems that most of the "Rows" were
alongside the canal which was a poor area.
Good luck!
Elizabeth Pugh
Yukon
Canada
(born in Wisbech)




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