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Victoria Road, WISBECH, PE13 2QF

This building appears to be the former Station Commercial Hotel on Victoria Road, Wisbech. As the name indicates it was next to Wisbech East Station, which closed in 1968. An old photo of the hotel, which appears to have been taken around the time of The First World War 1914-1918, can be seen here http://media.geograph.org.uk/view.php?id=1141 To date this is the only inn/tavern/hotel that I have found that is not listed in AA Oldham's book and I have been unable to find any other information relating to the hotel.

This building was once The Engineers Tavern on the junction of Queens Road and Victoria Road, Wisbech. It was documented as still trading in a 1994 CAMRA guide and closed a few years later. The photographer remembers this building being a pub before it was closed and converted into a domestic dwelling. The Railway Tavern was 20 metres to the left.

This building was once The Railway Tavern on the junction of Queens Road and Victoria Road, Wisbech. It was no longer documented as still trading in the 1992 CAMRA guide and probably closed a few years before then. The photographer remembers this building being a pub before it was closed and converted into a domestic dwelling. The Engineers Tavern was 20 metres to the right. An old photo of the tavern taken in the early 1900s can be seen here https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6735152

The lady in black is the great great grandmother of Robert Oldershaw (who sent me this photo) and she was the sister of William Albins (1865-1919) who was the “Licensed Victualler” in the early 1900s. Ogden and Sons were brewers in the nearby town of March; see http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ogden_%26_Sons A photo of the building taken in 2016 can be seen here https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4800690 (The date of this photograph as 1910 has been estimated)

This is the site of a former inn, The Dun Cow, which stood on the corner of Victoria Road and West Street. A sketch and photo of it can be seen here http://media.geograph.org.uk/view.php?id=2172 and here http://media.geograph.org.uk/view.php?id=1842 The site is currently an employment agency/gang-master's yard operated by Fred Bassett & Son This inn's location is shown on a map of Wisbech which was surveyed and drawn in 1853 as part of The Public Health Act of 1848 https://media.geograph.org.uk/view.php?id=2678

A small public park and former graveyard The information board relates the history of the park from the 14th century when the area was called Le Tyllerie, meaning a "place where tiles are made". In 1828 it became the New Burial Ground, an overflow graveyard for the Church of St Peter and St Paul.