Three Pickerels, Mepal, 1895 (Library, King’s Lynn)

Three Pickerels (Three Fishes), Mepal

History of the Three Pickerels

The old wooden bridge in the photo was replaced in 1930. The bridge crosses the New Bedford river.

Mepal, bridge, 1930 (photo D G Reid)(Cambridgeshire Collection)

In Mepal Vignettes (2005) Alf Wilson describes fishing in the river here, including the capture of a very large sturgeon at the Three Pickerels.

In 1911 Alf was 5 and lived at Black Bank, Mepal, probably close to the bridge.

Samuel John Wilson, 47, labourer, b Middlesex

Sarah Elizabeth, 37, b Cambs

John Alfred Wilson, 5, b Mepal

Annie Millicent, 2, b Mepal

Three Pickerels Mepal (RGL2026)

Three Pickerels Mepal (RGL2026)

View of Ouse Washes from Three Pickerels Mepal (RGL2026)

View of Ouse Washes from Three Pickerels Mepal (RGL2026)

View of Ouse Washes from Three Pickerels Mepal (RGL2026)

View of Ouse Washes from Three Pickerels Mepal (RGL2026)

Old bridge at Three Pickers Mepal

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