Editing Wisbech (section)

===Nineteenth century===
Wisbech and Ely shared the Isle of Ely [[Assizes]], as a result the 1819 trial of Israel Garner and James Colbank, two local men, took place in Ely and sentence of hanging took place in Wisbech.<ref>{{cite news|title= Law Intelligence|newspaper= Statesman (London) |date= 17 July 1819|page= 4}}</ref>
Wisbech Regatta was first held in 1850.<ref>{{cite news|title= Wisbech Regatta|newspaper=Peterborough Advertiser|date= 10 August 1850|page=3}}</ref>

June 1858 The Russian Gun.
—During the past week a brass plate has been added to the Russian Gun, bearing the inscription: — "This trophy of the late Russian War, presented by Queen Victoria to the Burgesses of Wisbech. Thomas Steed Watson, Mayor, 1858.<ref>{{cite news|title= The Russian Gun |newspaper= Cambridge Independent Press |date= 19 June 1858 |page= 7}}</ref>

The ''Isle of Ely and Wisbech Advertiser'' was founded in 1845.<ref>{{cite book|title=Wisbech Charter Celebrations|author= Wisbech Borough Council|publisher=Balding and Mansell}}</ref>

The [[Wisbech & Fenland Museum]] opened in 1847 and continues to collect, care for and interpret the natural and cultural heritage of Wisbech and the surrounding area.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wisbechmuseum.org.uk|title=Wisbech Museum|website=Wisbech and Fenland Museum|access-date=24 August 2019}}</ref>

On 1 March 1848 Eastern Counties Railway opened Wisbeach (''sic'') station (later renamed [[Wisbech East railway station]]). It closed on 9 September 1968.

In the 1853–54 cholera epidemic 176 deaths were reported in the town in 1854.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The History of Cholera in Great Britain|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine|volume=41|issue=3|pages=165–173|doi=10.1177/003591574804100309|pmid=18905493|pmc=2184374|year=1948|last1=Underwood|first1=E. Ashworth}}</ref> The Wisbech death rate (49 per 10,000) was the fourth highest in the country. The following year saw £8,000 expenditure on sewerage works and £13,400 on water supplies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/p261|title=Wisbech: Epidemics, sanitation|website=British History Online|access-date=11 September 2018}}</ref>

New public buildings such as the Exchange Hall and Public Hall (1851) provided modern larger venues for theatrical and other events. [[Fanny Kemble]] gave Shakespearean readings in 1855 at the Public Hall.<ref>{{cite news|title= Mrs Fanny Kemble|newspaper= Cambridge Independent Press |date= 20 January 1855|page= 8}}</ref>

On Sunday 29 June 1857 a mob entered the town and broke the corn exchange's windows and seized corn and demanded money from shopkeepers. On July the gentry and traders recruited about 500 men and went to Upwell, captured 60 people and placed them in irons. On 4 September a report was made to the lords justices of 14 malefactors condemned at Wisbech for a riot; two were sentenced to be executed the following Saturday and twelve for transportation.<ref>{{cite news|title=June 29|newspaper=Stamford Mercury|date= 21 August 1857|page= 6}}</ref>
The Wisbech Working Men's Club and Institute was formed in 1864. It was once considered one of the most financially successful of its type in England. It remains one of the oldest.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp268-269|title= Miscellaneous institutions|website= British History Online|accessdate= 24 September 2021}}</ref>

In 1864 the castle estate was purchased by Alexander Peckover. In 1932 his descendant Alexandrina Peckover gave to the borough council a piece of land to be laid out as an ornamental garden adjoining the War memorial.<ref>{{cite book|title=A history of Wisbech Castle|author= George Aniss|publisher= EARO| year= 1977}}</ref> The town hosted the [[British Archaeological Association]]'s annual Congress in 1878.<ref>{{cite news|title= Archaeology at Wisbech|newspaper= Illustrated London News |date= 24 August 1878|page= 10}}</ref>

In August 1883 [[Wisbech and Upwell Tramway]] opened. It eventually closed in 1966 (passenger services finished in 1927). The steam trams were replaced by diesels in 1952.

The ''[[Archant|Wisbech Standard]]'' newspaper was founded in 1888 and ceased printing in 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wisbechstandard.co.uk/home/about-us|title=About Us|website=Wisbech Standard|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2022/news/newsquest-says-no-plans-to-shut-more-papers-amid-further-print-closures/|website= www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk|accessdate= 30 October 2022|title= Closures}}</ref>