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Wisbech Library has been extended and remodelled at ground and first
floor level and the new library includes a learning  centre.
There is more room for children, new toilets, a lift, and a new
community meeting room, as well as more books and more library facilities.
Hundreds of people took part in a consultation that helped prepare
a successful bid for Big Lottery funding and customers, local groups
and organisations (including Wisbech Town Council) have worked with
Cambridgeshire County Council to design the library and shape the
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Wisbech is one of five libraries in the East of England that have
been supported through the Big Lottery and the Community Libraries
programme, to become hubs for community learning. The Libraries
team were successful in a bid for £2 million from the Big
Lottery, and half a million from Cambridgeshire County Council.
Wisbech Library, Ely Place PE13 1EU Tel: 01345 045 5225
Wisbech & Fenland Museum houses two libraries: The Museum
Library and the Town Library.
The Museum houses a wonderful Victorian library. Its 12,000 volumes
represent the collections of the Wisbech Literary Society (formed
in 1781) and the library of the museum’s greatest benefactor,
the Reverend Chauncy Hare Townshend. It is thanks to Townshend that
the Museum acquired the original manuscript of Dickens’ Great
Expectations.
The library is normally open to the public for exhibitions on the
first Saturday of each month and by appointment at other times.
During these exhibitions you can view Great Expectations.
The other library held at the museum is the 17th century deposited
library of Wisbech Town Council which is located in the Museum basement
and holds around 1,200 items including some rare early books and
manuscripts. This library is available to bona fide researchers.
Please contact the Museum on 01945 583817.
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