| Description | Track 1: man from Yorkshire describes contrast between Yorkshire and Fens landscape, 0.27 mins
Track 2: a man describes changes in people since men and women came back from the Forces, 0.55 mins
Track 3: continues 3, people used to listen to the parish vicar, now listen to radio instead, 0.37
Track 4: a man talks about young people, not enthusiastic, 0.37 mins
Track 5: a man talks about lighting on the Brinks, 0.27 mins
Track 6: a woman talks about the Clarkson monument and gardens around it, a group talk about Wisbech ‘a fine town’, 0.44 mins
Track 7: a man talks about what to do with the vacated police station, 1.00 mins
Track 8: a man talks about the Clarkson monument, 0.19 mins
Track 9: a woman talks about the Christian spiritualist church and belief in the afterlife, going to a séance, 3.36 mins
Track 10: a woman talks about ministers of church not making it interesting, singing hymns in church, 2.14 mins
Track 11: a woman talks about changes in the town through the years: different things sold in the market, the new factories, high rents in the recently-built flats, 3.13 mins
Track 12: a man talks about customers in his café, has just got a jukebox, unemployment has always been high in Wisbech, 3.04 mins
Track 13: continues 12, 0.23 mins
Track 14: continues 13, a man talks about the sound of the clock in Wisbech, 0.41 mins
Track 15: a man talks about music in the café, 0.49 mins
Track 16: describes a fight in the café, 0.41 mins
Track 17: a man describes what he does in his retirement, rides his bicycle, doesn’t go to church, 2.44 mins
Track 18: continues 17, explains how he joined the circus at age of 11, describes career in circus, how he and a black man slept in a lion’s cage, 1.26 mins
Track 19: a man describes sitting in the café, meeting Irish people and the students, 0.42 mins
Track 20: a woman talks about entertainment in Wisbech, 0.40 mins
Track 21: a man from South Africa talks about working in Wisbech, earning money for a holiday, 0.28
Track 22: a man describes papering his boat ‘a pilot cutter’ with a book of wallpaper, 2.31 mins
Track 23: two men talk about goods that are shipped on the river: bricks, fruit, manure, 0.54 mins
Track 24: a man talks about buoys and lighthouses, 1.01 mins
Track 25: continues 24, 1.00 mins
Track 26, Silence, 0.07 mins
Track 27: a man, a schoolmaster, describes how Wisbech people talk about the land as if it is alive, and the importance of making money, 1.10 mins
Track 28: continues 27
Track 29: continues 28, able boys go away from the district, 0.35 mins
Track 30: café owner talks about American serviceman who’s married a local girl, 0.33 mins
Track 31: interview with man with American accent, talks about entertainment in Wisbech, 0.42 mins
Track 32: a woman talks about entertainment in Wisbech, Americans coming over, hillbilly music; a man from America talks about country back home and Wisbech, a quiet town, slow at reading, 2.40 mins
Track 33: a man talks about Roman archaeology in Wisbech and drainage, 1.48 mins
Track 34: continues 33, interested in Georgian cellars, 0.30 mins
Track 35: a man talks about electric lamps in Wisbech, 0.35 mins
Track 36: a man talks about Georgian architecture, 0.08 mins
Track 37: a man goes to a library and asks for help researching the history of a church, 3.11 mins
Track 38: describes typical settlement pattern of Fenland villages, 0.41 mins
Track 39: a miner from Barnsley on holiday in Wisbech, 0.41 mins
Track 40: a miner talks about entertainment in the north, which is better than Wisbech, 1.17 mins
Track 41: a man talks about Wisbech ‘plenty of money here’, good social life, 1.15 mins
Track 42: a man talks about selling his car, 0.11 mins
Track 43: a man talks about driving, 0.38 mins
Track 44: a man talks about changes to buildings in Wisbech, new estates, 0.57 mins
Track 45: a man talks about people coming to Wisbech to spend, 0.45 mins
Track 46: continues 45, 0.35 mins
Track 47: talks about agricultural camps, every nationality works there, 0.34 mins
Track 48: traffic problems in Wisbech, 0.18 mins
Track 49: women as agricultural workers in the town, 1.08 mins
Track 50: older people’s attitude to Teddy Boys in Wisbech, 1.34 mins
Total: 55.00
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