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Hand-colored postcard showing several steamships moored along a canal bank beside a grassy embankment and a stone building.

River Nene, Wisbech

River Nene, Wisbech

History of the dock Wisbech

Several tall-masted sailing vessels are moored in a line along a narrow, muddy riverbank with buildings in the background.

Boats at Horseshoe Corner, River Nene, 1856 (photo S Smith) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

Several sailing ships with tall masts are moored in a line along the riverbank in front of distant buildings in Wisbech.

Wisbech Port c1870 (L W Smith)

A three-masted sailing ship with complex rigging docked at a wooden wharf, viewed against a pale sky.

‘Martinson’ of Riga at English Brothers’ wood yard, Wisbech, 1898 (Mehew)

A detail from an 1885 Ordnance Survey map showing the River Nene, Horseshoe Mills, railway tracks, and nearby properties.

Horseshoe Mills, River Nene OS map 1885

In the picture is the vessel Amelia which had arrived from Quebec with a cargo of timber, the Cragger and the Vigilant. (M Millward and B Coe, Victorian Townscape, 1974)

Two steamships are moored along a riverbank in this black-and-white postcard, which features handwritten text on the margins.

River Nene, Wisbech c.1902

A large cargo ship is moored alongside a stone quay on the River Nene, with buildings and a riverside road visible in the back.

Rive Nene, Wisbech 1950

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