| Description | Articles, notes and correspondence relating to the roads, bridges and rivers in Wansford.
Booklet on the Opening Ceremony of the Wansford By-Pass Road & Bridge, 1929. Postcard from Ronald Russell on the etymology of 'Nene', 1977. Amended Plan relating to a draft agreement for the Wansford By-Pass Road and Bridge, newspaper article with an illustration of the ministry's plan for a Wansford fly-over. Leaflet for the Welland and Nene River Authority at the East of England Show 1969. Copied extract from "River Nene Navigation" by S.J.Asher on Yarwell Locks and Ship End Quarry Stibbington. List of dates of drowned water boys in Stibbington. Illustration of Wansford Bridge by Jacob Schnebbelie, 1791. Illustration of Wansford Bridge by G.Clarke, nd.
Envelope of photographs containing: An album of artefacts dredged from the River Neve at Stibbington, postcards showing flooding in Wansford (names listed on the back including Gilbert family), 26 August 1912. Photographs of Wharf House, including the granary, storehouse, gig-house and blacksmith shop, nd.
Loose photographs: A dredger on the Nene, nd. A heel-iron by William Frederick Pilch of Sheffield, nd. Stanch Close on the Thornaugh and Wansford Tithe Award, 1838. Fenland lighters on the Nene including George Coston, c1910. Two photograph postcards of the opening of Wansford Bridge by Wilfrid Ashley, Minister of Transport, and Mrs.Ashley, 22 March 1929. Yarwell Mill with Charles WIngrove, george Gilbert and Ernest Gilbert in front, nd. fossibles and artefacts dredged from the river, nd (4 photographs). Children, individuals and cars leaving the Wansford Bridge on the openind day, March 1929 (3 Photographs). Copy photograph of old bills of Skelton & Company of Wansford and Stibbington and one bill for Robert Francis Pate (2 copies) 1841-1842. Copy photograph of a bill to W.Rawlings, 1842. Photograph of men constructing a line(?), nd. Photograph of old stone steps that led to a wharf near Wharf House, Wansford, c1972. Office and workshop at Stibbington, nd. Unknown farm building, nd. Unknown barn ruins, nd. Four photographs of the river taken near The Paper Mills Inn, nd. |