Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire*
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Cringing Cult of Celebrity
- Elvis used to live on the Mount Pleasant estate and Shergar was rumoured to have visited the kebab shop by the Empire.
- The writer of Thomos the Tank Engine
- Barry Sheene
- Clarkson gets all the publicity...but William Godwin...husband of Mary Wollenstencraft and dad to Mary Shelley( Frankenstein author)and known as father of the Anarchist movement...was born here in 1756.He'd have loved skateboards.
- jackie gallagher is legend. and joe perry
- Thomas Clarkson, Anti slavery,has monumental erection near tourist info place. Victoria Gillick, Anti contraception campainer,has large family nr old market place.
- Don't forget, world-famous motorcycle ace, the late Barry Sheene, lived in Wisbech when he became world champion. He died in Australia earlier this year.
- Tony Martin has become pretty famous lately
- Paul Shane lives down the road, supposedly. Gary Read used to be in some punk band that probably entered into battle of the bands or something. He is thought to haunt Wisbech still.
- =SunryzeR= leader of one of UK's oldest and largest online gaming clans =FFS= (The FearFul Silence) lives here (www.fearfulsilence.com if you don't know what i'm on about)
- tony martin famous for shooting burgalars
- Clare Goose, excasualty star and all round fit babe used to go to Wisbech Grammar School( so did i !)
- Thomas Clarkson was born in Wisbech- he helped to free the slaves in Britain and most of the rest of the world by outlawing the trade.
Anton Rodgers was also a resident of Wisbech- he played the bumbling slap head solicitor in May to December.
- The town's most famous son is professional snooker player Joe Perry. Apart from that the town has mainly lived in the shadow of nearby Peterborough.
- Mr Massey Fergerson (not the founder) and his family still have roots firmly planted in Wisbech
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