Wisbech
& Fenland Museum:
holds a collection of around 10,000 images dating from the 19th century
to the present day. Includes the work of Samuel Smith calotype photographs
of Wisbech and District in the 1850s; The Rev. William Ellis's earliest
surviving photographs of Madagascar taken in c1862; and over 3,000 topographical
postcard negatives produced by Herbert Coates from the 1920s into the
1960s.
Octavia
Hill Birthplace House:
the museum is located in a portion of the house on the South Brink,
Wisbech, where Octavia Hill was born in 1838. Miss Hill was a pioneer
of social housing, a founder of the cadet movement and a co-founder
of the National Trust.