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Alexander Peckover was created Baron Peckover in 1907. During the period in which the building was in the ownership of the Peckovers, the building was known as Bank House . During the Second World War local tradition has it that Alexandrina Peckover, the largest contributor to the Wisbech Spitfire Fund, did so in lieu of giving up the railings ...
The following year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Peckover, of Wisbech in the County of Cambridge. [7] In 1905 Cambridge University awarded him the honorary degree of LL.D. [ 8 ] After his death part of the estates were sold off by auction at the Alexandra Theatre, Wisbech in 1920.
In 1910 Baron Peckover was re-elected president of the Museum and Literary Institution at its 74th annual meeting. [13] The museum holds an extensive collection of maps, which were exhibited in Cambridge in 1934, Peckover House 1954 and 1976 and the museum in 1993. [14]
At the 1871 census Wisbech (Municipal Borough Limits) consisted of 6,432acres, 2,162 houses, and 9,362 persons. [2] A long, narrow tail of land was detached and given to Wisbech Rural District. In 1933 the south-western part of Wisbech MB was transferred to the parish of Elm leaving Wisbech RD surrounding the Borough on three sides. [3] [4]
The meeting house Stuart attended (and where she is buried) was a thatched building on the North Brink, as shown in a watercolour painting by Algernon Peckover and in use by the Friends from 1711. [11] [e] [13] [14] She died at the age of 88 on 12 July 1742. [4] [15] She is referred to in the Victoria County History. [16]
The PE postcode area, also known as the Peterborough postcode area, [2] is a group of 36 postcode districts in eastern England, within 18 post towns.These cover north and west Cambridgeshire (including Peterborough, Huntingdon, Chatteris, St. Neots, St. Ives, March and Wisbech), much of south and east Lincolnshire (including Bourne, Stamford, Spalding, Boston, Skegness and Spilsby), and west ...
The Crescent consists of rows of terraced houses and religious buildings laid out as a circus in the town of Wisbech, England.Initiated by the developer Joseph Medworth and built between 1794 and c1815, it is a rare examples of a Georgian circus to be found in the United Kingdom.
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