sluice row

[larmet1969]

hi there if you want an idea of the type of place sluice passage was there are some lovely pictures in the new cradle to the grave book by lilian ream theres a pic of a sluice passage but not savory road although if you put it into google street map it still exists great to hear stories of wisbech as this is a main interest of mine i will check all the publications to see wether savory road appears in any of them if you go onto cambridgeshires council web site and search for lilian ream collection theres a vast amount of old pics of wisbech there

[Jan1954]

I have a copy of the book Cambridgeshire Living Memories and there are some great photgraphs of Wisbech in it, including the Clarkson Memorial (taken in 1955 and mentioned in post #10), the Market Place (1955 & 1965), the High Street (1955), the Canal (1955), which shows rows of houses as well as the Hope Inn, and Leach's Mill (1955).

Worth getting a copy if you have ancestors from Cambridgeshire.

[richard40]

Hi Norman, visited Wisbech Library and Museum today. 1 map only showing Sluice Passage, no photo's of area concerned but a very good description given in the Library, they were mainly 2 up two down cottages built circa 1740/50 with no facilities ie shared toilets, pump water up until the 1930's when stand pipes were introduced there, workers cottages of early Georgian standard, actually deemed unsuitable in early 1900's but still lived in until around 1950 when demolished, a very poor standard indeed.
Your ordinance survey map you quoted shows the canal joining the river Nene, Sluice Passage was actually situated approximately 50 yards from the bridge called Sluice Bridge. come back from the bridge on the canal on the town side, the first possible turn was Sluice passage and led into Cunnington Square that in turn sided to the right to Albion Terrace this was Wisbech Workhouse, your family lived about 100 yrds from there. Sluice Passage is now the site of Horsefair car park as is most of what I have described, sadly your parents were living in the most run down part of the whole town, very little detail has been saved of it in the public domain here, anything has to be gleaned from old folk who were living here pre 1950 and had witnessed it themselves. Richard

[norman long]

To richard40...thankyou for the email with the details of the whereabouts of sluice passage. I tried to send you a reply but there was a problem with recipient domain, and I suspect you haven't seen my messages. The details you have given me will be entered into my family history file. Now I know where my first few weeks of life were spent after being born in the Lynn Rd Maternity hospital in 1945. I just wish that I wasn't so far away, as Wisbech library would have much of interest for me. Thankyou once again for the generous contribution to the Sluice passage/Row mystery. Norman Long, Littlehampton, West Sussex.

[richard40]

To richard40...thankyou for the email with the details of the whereabouts of sluice passage. I tried to send you a reply but there was a problem with recipient domain, and I suspect you haven't seen my messages. The details you have given me will be entered into my family history file. Now I know where my first few weeks of life were spent after being born in the Lynn Rd Maternity hospital in 1945. I just wish that I wasn't so far away, as Wisbech library would have much of interest for me. Thankyou once again for the generous contribution to the Sluice passage/Row mystery. Norman Long, Littlehampton, West Sussex.

If you had been born just after you were it would probably have been in the workhouse I mentioned as it was turned into the Clarkson maternity wing of the hospital until it's demolition. If you do reach Wisbech library and the museum are in adjacent buildings. glad to be of help.