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Falcon Road, WISBECH, PE13 1AU

The engineers in the basket of this hydraulic boom were working on some cables on the side of the hospital building

The shops, Acme Cabs and Beauty by Renata, share this odd looking chimney.

A recruitment agency at left with the parish church of St Peter & St Paul in the distance.

Art Deco cinema built in 1932 now used primarily used as a bingo hall, it is a Grade II listed building, see http://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1125906 Also see a 1932 photo from the Lilian Ream collection here http://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/CalmView/GetImage.ashx?db=Catalog&type=default&fname=I_004.jpg

The Falcon Inn once stood on this site in Little Church Street facing the back of The Globe Inn. It was demolished in the 1860s and a Methodist's Chapel was built on the site. This was subsequently demolished and replaced with a department store, owned initially by the Co-Op and subsequently Beales. An old photo looking along the street showing a couple of distant inn signs can be seen here http://media.geograph.org.uk/view.php?id=2171 (The site of this in has been identified from the text in AA Oldham's book)

The church of SS Peter and Paul > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828243 is listed amongst the top 100 churches in Simon Jenkins' book "England's 1000 best parish churches". The building was created over a time span covering about 400 years and was built in a variety of styles. At the time the original church was built it was situated right by the seaside by the confluence of the Rivers Nene and Ouse. This first church, however, was a modest Norman building > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828295 that is now contained within the somewhat confusing present structure. When the church needed to be enlarged in 1250 to make room for more people it was not possible to add on to it on its west side because of the castle that stood there. Additions had to be built onto the other sides of the building, which was completed in the 14th and 15th centuries. Around 1500 the Norman west tower collapsed, damaging part of the remaining Norman structure, and a new tower, detached from the church, was built at its north-west end. The church still houses the original C13 font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828346 as well as medieval ceiling bosses and misericords in the sanctuary, and fragments of medieval stained glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828269 in one of its windows. A life-sized brass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828341 commemorating Thomas de Braunstone (Constable of Wisbech Castle, d 1401) can be found on the floor and there are a great number of monuments, mainly on the chancel walls, the two perhaps most noteworthy being to Matthias and Jane Taylor (1633) > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828317 and to Thomas Parke and his wife (1630). A Stuart royal arms > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828265 dating from the 1660s hangs by the south doorway. During the Victorian restoration the old seating was replaced and most stained windows > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828299 date from this time or from later.

The church of SS Peter and Paul > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828243 is listed amongst the top 100 churches in Simon Jenkins' book "England's 1000 best parish churches". The building was created over a time span covering about 400 years and was built in a variety of styles. At the time the original church was built it was situated right by the seaside by the confluence of the Rivers Nene and Ouse. This first church, however, was a modest Norman building that is now contained within the somewhat confusing present structure. When the church needed to be enlarged in 1250 to make room for more people it was not possible to add on to it on its west side because of the castle that stood there. Additions had to be built onto the other sides of the building, which was completed in the 14th and 15th centuries. Around 1500 the Norman west tower collapsed, damaging part of the remaining Norman structure, and a new tower, detached from the church, was built at its north-west end. The church still houses the original C13 font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828346 as well as medieval ceiling bosses and misericords in the sanctuary, and fragments of medieval stained glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828269 in one of its windows. A life-sized brass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828341 commemorating Thomas de Braunstone (Constable of Wisbech Castle, d 1401) can be found on the floor and there are a great number of monuments, mainly on the chancel walls, the two perhaps most noteworthy being to Matthias and Jane Taylor (1633) > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828317 and to Thomas Parke and his wife (1630) > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828320. A Stuart royal arms > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828265 dating from the 1660s hangs by the south doorway. During the Victorian restoration the old seating was replaced and most stained windows > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828299 date from this time or from later.

This used to be called the Corner Café. It stands on the corner of Blackfriars Road. Richard Humphrey pointed out that when he was a lad this was Shawl's Bakery. That may be not so long ago, or many moons ago; I daren't ask :-)