GENERAL SITE CONTENTS
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About this site The 'small print' -
copyright, privacy policy, aims, history, funding, management & technical details. |
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Aircraft crashes during WW2 |
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Angling Club (see also Fishing below) |
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Bingo |
| Business directory
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| Children's
play equipment at playing field |
| Church the history of Welney St. Mary's. For service details, events
& contacts go to the United Benefice's own site |
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Civil Defence Corps during
WW2 |
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Contact webmaster With news, ideas, photos, comments, praise or complaints. |
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Cricket The Welney Croft Cricket club sub-site,
results and reports season by season, and a history of cricket in Welney. |
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Colony A utopian society |
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Cygnets |
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Fens |
Farming in Welney - a pictorial history
from 1880 to 1980
and articles and photos about farming today. |
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Fire Service during WW2 |
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Fishing |
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Flat Earth
Experiments |
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Flooding of the
A1101 Welney Wash Road |
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Football History of Welney United FC |
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Friendship club fun for the over 60s |
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Guestbook entries for 2001-2005 |
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Home page an introduction to Welney |
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Home Guard during WW2 |
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Kart racing |
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Manea Colony A utopian dream, war against France, the Poor Laws, the Littleport Riots, all on one page! |
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Marshall's Charity
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Millennium Arts Project Philippa Mitchell describes how a community worked together in 2000 to mark the
Millennium and create the Welney 'MAP', the Welney Archives - and The Welney Website.
(shown as first posted in 2000 in MS word format). |
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new Community Hall
from proposal to permission |
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Obituaries |
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Ouse Washes drainage &
flood protection overview |
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Parish Action Plan The 2008 guide for the future (This is a 38 page PDF file of 10MB & may take several minutes to load). |
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Parish Council what they (should) do, and who they are.
Minutes
of meetings from Jan 2005 to Oct 2011. Also shows councillors
attendance records. |
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Parish Hall |
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Pavilion |
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People lives and
memories of local folk |
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Playing Field |
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Play equipment at playing
field |
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Postal services |
| Pubs |
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Rivers |
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Roll of Honour servicemen who died in two world wars |
| School
revised pages, history 1827-2010, & old photos. |
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Sewerage |
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Shop |
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Skating. A short
history of Welney's famous speed skaters. For current details of where & when you can skate go to the
GL skating pages |
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Slideshows |
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Suspension Bridge
History of the area |
| Tipps End/Tipsend Including an amusing article by former resident David Lewis |
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Utopian Dream - see Manea Colony above |
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Wash Road
flooding |
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Water Supply and Water Tower |
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Webmasters postbag |
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Website archives of reports, articles, comments, obituaries and other pages from earlier website editions. |
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Welmore Lake Sluice |
"Welney News" The history
of a great parish-newsletter. Plus details of the current team.
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| William Marshall - our great benefactor |
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Womens Institute |
| WWT |
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Yoga |
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Youth Club |
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LOCAL NEWS HEADLINES, 2011
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Aug 22nd. Work has started at Suspension Bridge to replace the crash barriers that were crushed in Oct 2010 |
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Aug 17th. The Welney News Committee requested the removal
of the on-line copy of issue 82 (see previous item).
Peter Arnold resigned as a result of that decision and the committee
are looking for yet another new editor. A committee spokesman said the decision was not a reflection
on this website or the webmaster.
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Aug 11th. A 'PDF' copy of the latest issue of the Welney News,
no. 82,
was posted on this website at the request of the recently appointed
WN editor, Peter Arnold. |
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Aug 2nd. Welney Parish Council agreed that some form of celebration
should be held in Welney to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in June
2012. |
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4th or 5th July. A car went over the broken crash
barriers at Suspension Bridge & rolled right down the
bank. |
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June. Anglian Water admitted problems at Christchurch & Welney Sewage Lagoon. Apparently, the cold winter
affected the process and the effluent had to be taken to a "proper"
treatment works. |
May 19th. Planning permision for a new
hall/pavilion at Welney Playing Field has been
granted, subject to work starting within 3
years; sewerage & drainage plans to be submitted and approved; Hurn
Drove to be widened/resurfaced for 10m from March Rd & slope
reduced; noise reduction scheme to protect local residents to be
submitted and approved; car park to be surfaced and drained.
The application did not include plans for a childrens play area. See
report
and full
decision |
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May 5th. Local Council elections. In Welney, there were only 6
candidates for the 9 vacancies, so being "uncontested" no voting was
necessary and all who stood were therefore "elected": Tim Bennett,
Su Dobson, Tim Eyles, Clair Freer, Ken Goodger and Vija Prately. |
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Mar 26th. An ambulance and a Magpas team attended a young boy
injured in an accident at his home in Chestnut Avenue.
Report. |
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Mar 14th. Another revised plan for a Community Hall has been
submitted. Compromise and common sense at last ? See
report. |
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February. Residents of neighbouring Christchurch reported strong
smells from the Christchurch & Welney Sewage
Lagoon. Reports also of road tankers going in & out of the
works. |
Feb 10th. Welney Parish Council's revised application
to build a new Comunity Hall at the playing field
(full details can be seen on the Borough Council's website, on the
old planning webpages or their
new pages. (application no: 10/02089/F). It was due to be determined on Feb 9th. There has been an objection
by one of the statutory consultation parties, and comments by
others and the architects are revising the hall and site layout. There are also factual errors in the application.
See our
report |
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Jan 15th. Wash Road flooded. EA estimate a week to clear. Can we
really complain when we see what's happening elsewhere?
To check flood status see our
Flooding report. |
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LOCAL NEWS HEADLINES, 2010
| Dec 17th. Welney Parish Council's revised application
to build a new Community Hall at the playing field
was received by the planning authority on 10th Dec, and can now be seen on the
Borough Council website |
| Dec 14th Wash Road accident. Motorcyclist injured. Road blocked for about an hour in afternoon.
Report |
| Dec 14th. Peggy Smart's funeral |
| Dec 11th. Bishops Land Charity payout and Christmas Fayre at St. Mary's Church, 10am - noon. |
| Oct 28th. Official opening of new pumping station at
Welmore Lake sluice.
Report |
| Oct 25th. Angela Kent died aged 58 at Heron House Nursing Home, March. Funeral service at Welney St. Mary's
Church, Thurs 4th Nov at 11.45, followed by cremation at Fenland Crematorium, March. |
| Oct 8th. RTA Susension Bridge. Articulated lorry turned over at just after 2pm. No injuries.
Report |
| Oct 3rd. Tom Fisher died at QE Hospital. Funeral at the new March Crematrium on Friday 15th, 1.45pm.
Obituary/tribute next month. Obituary |
| Sept 17th A car exploded in flames outside a house (Little Grove) in Wisbech Road at about 4am. A crew from Upwell attended. |
| Sept 15th Victor (Tory) Scarff died aged 93 at Orchard Hse, Wisbech. Funeral at St. Marys 28th Sept. |
| July 27th. Roy Green died. Roy was our local milkman for 20 years until his retirement in 2002.
Tribute. |
| May 30th. Ken Sorenson died in a Wisbech care home. Funeral 15th June, 10 am, Mintlyn Crematorium, Kings Lynn.
Obituary |
| May 4th. Welney Parish Council's application to build a new Village Hall
on the playing field was refused by the Borough Council and the
decision was posted on its website early pm. However, our Parish Clerk didn't check
so when the Parish Council held their monthly meeting that evening the
refusal was not discussed. Report |
| Mar 11th Welney Parish Council's application to build a new Village Hallon the playing field can now
be seen on the Borough Council website
here. |
| Mar 10th Wash Road NOT flooded after an unprecedented rate of clearance. |
| Mar 5th Wash Road still flooded, official EA water depth at 0830 was 115 cms (3'10"). |
| Feb 24th Wash Road flooded again. Signs are up and the gates are closed. Official EA water depth is a staggering 7cm - gosh, nearly 3 inches! |
| Feb 5th Wash Road NOT flooded - thats now official, gates were opened about 11 this morning. Many users of the road will of course know it could
have opened yesterday. |
| Feb 5th Wash Road floods. Cambs police now say they will no longer impose fines and award penalty points, following a protest from Welney
businesman Howard Kent. Well done Howard!!!
more |
| Feb 3rd Wash Road still flooded. After peaking at 30 cms (14") on Jan 21st, depth remained in the 15-18cm (6-7") range for
10 days. Official EA depth today at 0800 was 12cms (5"). |
| Feb 2nd. During public particpation at Welney Parish Council meeting several concerns and objections were made about the proposal
to build a new Community Centre on the Playing Field.
Report |
| Jan 29th Wash Road. According to newspaper reports, Cambs police have threatened motorists with a £60 fine and 3 penalty points
for ignoring road closure signs.
Report |
| Jan 19th Wash Road flooded again. Official EA depth at 1530 was 12cms (nearly 5 ins). |
| Jan 12th. Upwell Health Centre announced the end of
surgeries in Welney. They were suspended at the end of November 2009
and will not be re-instated. |
| Jan 11th. Wash Road now clear. After 3 days of depths dropping from 10 cms/4 ins to 5cms/2 ins the official EA message at 0800
was "deep puddles". |
| an 7th. Wash Road still flooded. Depth in a.m. down to 24cms from its peak of 50 cm on Jan 3rd. More snow, more ice. |
| Jan 1st. Wash Road flooded, 9ins/23cm & rising. Snow & Ice. Sunny in pm. |
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