IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Fen Road, WISBECH, PE13 4JP
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Fen Road, PE13 4JP by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (23 Images Found)
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The Swan Bridge
Almost certainly named for the nearby Inn, this bridge crosses the North Level Main Drain, the master leet for the North Level District Internal Drainage Board.
The bridge dates from 1832, a period of intensive investment in the fens with the change from wind to steam drainage. This was the same period of drainage improvment under John Rennie when the nearby Clough Bridge was built (Image). This when the North Level Main Drain was constructed, greatly improving the agriculture hereabouts.
Image: © Bob Harvey
Taken: 16 Jun 2023
0.13 miles
3
Swan Footbridge
The pipe underneath is for mains water.
Image: © Tony Bennett
Taken: 9 Oct 2008
0.13 miles
5
Datestone
The keystone of Image with the date of 1832
Image: © Bob Harvey
Taken: 16 Jun 2023
0.14 miles
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The Swan Bridge
Almost certainly named for the nearby Inn, this bridge crosses the North Level Main Drain, the master leet for the North Level District Internal Drainage Board.
The bridge dates from 1832, a period of intensive investment in the fens with the change from wind to steam drainage. This was the same period of drainage improvment under John Rennie when the nearby Clough Bridge was built (Image). This when the North Level Main Drain was constructed, greatly improving the agriculture hereabouts.
Image: © Bob Harvey
Taken: 16 Jun 2023
0.14 miles
8
On the bridge
A tractor towing a slurry trailer.
The trailer is a Redrock tandem axle slurry tanker. The tractor a Massey Fergusson 7618.
Image: © Bob Harvey
Taken: 16 Jun 2023
0.14 miles
9
The North Level Main Drain
Constructed in the 1830s to designs by John Rennie. It drains the area of the North Level District Internal Drainage Board Northwards, joining the River Nene at Tydd Gote, downstream of Wisbech.
Image: © Bob Harvey
Taken: 16 Jun 2023
0.14 miles
10
Parson Drove village fete 1959
The pillow fight on the slippery pole was one of the main attractions at this annual fete with hundreds of people watching from the banks of the North Level Drain near Swan Bridge. The old telegraph pole was heavily greased and the two opponents straddled the pole facing each other and proceeded to have a pillow fight with hessian sacks full of waterlogged straw. The objective was to knock your opponent into the drain. On this particular occasion both men ended up in the water but my father, Hugh Humphrey, was deemed to be the loser as he hit the water first. The spire of The Cage, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3316947, is just visible next to the trees which enabled me to locate the photo, along with a distant memory. At more recent fetes, presumably due to our wonderful Health & Safety laws, this contest was fought out over an inflated pool on the village green.
Image: © The Humphrey family archive
Taken: 31 Aug 1959
0.14 miles