Image: ECR(1851) p68b - (Wisbech) Corn Market

Description: Wisbech Old Market, looking north-east up Chapel Road. The Octagon Chapel, opened in 1831, was demolished in 1952. "The principal trade in Wisbeach is that of corn, and the corn-market in this place is one of the most important in the country, there being about 120,000 quarters of corn annually shipped here for Lynn, Cambridge, and other places; this is grown in the neighbourhood, the amount having very much increased of late years by the recent inventions in agriculture; much of the land, which was formerly covered with fens, having thus been lately recovered."
Title: ECR(1851) p68b - (Wisbech) Corn Market
Credit: Image extracted from page 68 of "The Eastern Counties Railway Illustrated Guide", by . Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr. Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.  This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.  View image on Flickr   View all images from book   View catalogue entry for book.  English | Français | +/−
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