8 Sept 1652: Theophilus Buckworth Church of #Ireland bishop of #Dromore at #Wisbech Cambridgeshire #otd (John Armagh) where he'd been baptised on 8 Jan 1580.

The ongoing spat between council and police over policing parking claims another victim: the VE Day commemoration.

Anger as 'selfish' driver's parked car disrupts Wisbech VE Day event
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/25147559.car-parked-wisbech-war-memorial-disrupts-ve-day-event/

#wisbech #parking #VEDay

Work starts on controversial Wisbech incinerator - BBC News

The project is expected to take about three years to construct.

BBC News
Went to Salamanca Market yesterday & came across author James Boyce selling his books, including Imperial Mud, The Fight for the Fens. I think he was a little surprised to be chatting to someone in Hobart who actually knew of *and* had lived in the #Fens - specifically #Wisbech, before moving to AU
@glightly a rather different #roseParade to the one in #Wisbech most Julys!
@ChrisMayLA6 People around #KingsLynn and #Wisbech will be worried that the #CrumblingConcrete #QEHospital rebuild will stall again now that the Wisbech MP is not health minister. #Sunak has delayed it before.
#Fenland #PlanningApplication #FYR220844O #Wisbech off Stow Road. Cambridgeshire CoCo still asking good questions. #KLWNBUG should make similar objections. This could be a useful new route to/from the Smeeth but this development will also turn the #A47 Broadend Road crossroads into a roundabout which could be good or bad #space4cycling
This is the Wisbech & Fenland Museum in Wisbech in the Isle of Ely. It is one of the oldest purpose-built museums in Britain. It was founded in 1835 and moved to its present then-new building in 1847. While the focus of the museum’s collection is the local history of #Wisbech and the surrounding #Fens, it does contain one item of national or even international significance, the original manuscript of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. #IsleOfEly #Cambridgeshire #dwprovincialbritain

#Brunch is very local.

Local eggs laid by local chickens, local bacon from local pigs cured by the local butcher, fresh blood black pudding from just up the road in #Wisbech (all this bought from said local butcher).

Local asparagus and chard from our local organic farm (based on the same road as us). Bit of garden parsley too.

The bread is a bit exotic though, it's a Fitzbillies sourdough from #Cambridge bought a week ago from Daily Bread. (This sourdough lasts super well for toast making.)