Beefy bishops and king-sized castles were treading a giant sized board on Centenary Green in Wisbech to mark International Chess Day. The outsized game of chess was staged by the adjoining Octavia Hill’s Birthplace House at 7 South Brink, the home of the social reformer …
Book lovers are being asked to come forward to help with cataloguing at the museum commemorating Wisbech’s most famous daughter, Octavia Hill. Octavia Hill’s Birthplace House is calling for volunteers willing to commit to continuing the current season, both with cataloguing tasks associated with the …
The impresario who brought the Rolling Stones to Wisbech is to take his place in a hall of fame at Octavia Hill’s Birthplace House. A plaque will be unveiled in Heroes’ Arcade in the garden of the museum at 7 South Brink to Wisbech-born concert …
A key player in the campaign for social reform is the subject of the second lecture in a series on the sisterhood of women who worked side by side with Wisbech’s most famous daughter, Octavia Hill. Dame Henrietta Barnett, who founded the first University Settlement …
Two reformers who shared Octavia Hill’s passions and enthusiasms have been remembered at the house in Wisbech where she was born. Plaques have been unveiled at Heroes’ Arcade in the garden of Octavia Hill’s Birthplace House to an illustrator and artist, who promoted the cause …
The mother of Wisbech’s most famous daughter has taken her place in a memorial to unsung heroes. At a ceremony at Octavia Hill’s Birthplace House a plaque was unveiled in Heroes’ Arcade to Caroline Southwood Hill, who helped to shape Octavia’s ideas about social reform. …
A new flag that is set to flutter above Centenary Green in Wisbech has been unfurled during May Day celebrations at Octavia Hill’s Birthplace House.The bright banner celebrating the town’s most famous daughter, a co-founder of the National Trust who believed that open spaces made …
A prime mover behind Octavia Hill’s campaigning vision for social reform is set to join the pantheon of heroes in the garden of the house where she was born.A plaque commemorating Octavia’s mother, Caroline Southwood Hill, is to be unveiled at Octavia Hill’s Birthplace House at …
The sisterhood of women who worked side by side with Wisbech’s most famous daughter is to come under the spotlight in a series of talks being staged at Octavia Hill’s Birthplace House. In the year that marks the centenary of the triumph of the Suffragettes …
A bid to pitch practice opportunities at a broader range of instrumentalists has been unveiled at Octavia Hill’s Birthplace House in Wisbech. A music practice group, which is open to all instrumentalists, is being launched as the successor to the piano practice group, which has …