The Welney Website

Bullet style list

• top of THIS page
• About this site The 'small print' - copyright, privacy policy, aims, history, funding, management & technical details.
• Aircraft crashes during WW2
• Angling Club (see also Fishing below)
• Barrier Bank works 2017-2021 and extra heavy traffic in Tipps End 2017
• Community Centre from proposal to permission to passed-away.
• 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
• Civil Defence Corps during WW2
• Contact webmaster With news, ideas, photos,  comments, praise or complaints.
• Cricket The Welney Croft Cricket club sub-site, results and reports season by season, & a history of cricket in Welney.
• Colony The story of a utopian society and a great deal more, now on its own much expanded website
• Cygnets
• Fens
• Farming in Welney - a pictorial history from 1880 to 1980 and articles and photos about farming today.
• Fire Service in Welney during WW2
• Fishing
• Flat Earth Experiments How the Old Bedford River was used to try to prove the earth was not a globe but flat.
• Flooding of the A1101 Welney Wash Road
• Football History of Welney United FC. Several pages of of named photos, players appearances, records, awards, etc.
• Fraud by a former parish clerk who stole £30,000 from Parish Council
• Friendship club fun for the over 60s. DISCONTINUED.
• Guestbook entries for 2001-2005. A very old page, old in style and content!
• Headlines, 2000-2012 Twelve years of Welney Headlines!
• History history of Welney parish
• Home page an introduction to Welney
• Home Guard in Welney during WW2
• Kart racing The Wisbech & District Kart club provide exciting well organised racing in Welney & help a local charity.
• Links to other local sites More than 20 sites in and around Welney - clubs, organisations, Councils
• Manea Colony A utopian dream, war against France, the Poor Laws, the Littleport Riots, a millionaires retreat, and a great deal more, now on a sister website
• Marshall's Charity Welney has benefited from a generous benefactor, William Marshall, for over 340 years.
• Millennium Arts Project How the community worked together in 2000 to mark the Millennium creating the Welney 'MAP', the Welney Archives & Website
• new Community Centre / Parish Hall from proposal to permission to plop. (Another Utopian Dream?)
• new Pavilion instead of  the 'Community Hall' as the intended combined replacement for current (2014) Pavilion the Parish Hall
• News Headlines from 1998
• News Tweets from June 2015 yes folks, the webmaster has now joined Twitter. His tweets and retweets have a wide selection of news and info.
• Obituaries
• Ouse Washes drainage & flood protection overview
• Parish Action Plan The 2008 guide for the future (A 38-page PDF file of 10MB & may take several minutes to load).
• Parish Council who they are, what they do and what they should do.
• Parish Council fraud/theft by a former parish clerk
• Parish Council Minutes of meetings from Jan 2005 to date. Also shows councillors attendance records up to 2012
• Parish Hall
• Pavilion - current (ie, old)
• Pavilion - proposed new
• People lives and memories of local folk
• Playing Field
• Play equipment at playing field
• Postal services
• Pubs
• Rivers
• Roll of Honour servicemen who died in two world wars
• School History of William Marshall School 1827-2010, & old photos.
• School - POSSIBLE CLOSURE AUGUST 2015
• Shop We said farewell to Pete and Wendy, and their Post Office Stores better know locally simply as "Wendy's"
• Sewage Treatment scheme 1 Would have blighted and de-valued many homes; withdrawn following public campaign by residents of Tipps End and Lakes End
• Sewage Treatment scheme 2 Offering first-time mains sewerage to a limited number of properties and only to those who can afford to be connected!
• Skating. A short history of Welney's famous speed skaters.
• Suspension Bridge History of the bridge and the area named after it
• Slideshows
• Theft of £30,000 from Parish Council by a former parish clerk
• Tipps End/Tipsend Including an amusing article by former resident David Lewis/ Page has many links to other Tipps End items.
• Utopian Dream - see Manea Colony, or Colony, above
• Village sign
• Wash Road flooding
• Water Supply and Water Tower (page in production, due early 2013)
• Webmasters postbag
• Website archives of reports, articles, comments, obituaries and other pages from earlier website editions.
• Welmore Lake Sluice
• "Welney News"  The history of a great parish-newsletter. Plus details of the current team.
• Welney Parish Council. See 'Parish Council' above
• William Marshall - our great benefactor
• Womens Institute
• WWT Wetland & Wildlife Trust visitor centre
• Yoga
• Youth Club