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Werners Westwood Works
A nortbound steam train passes the recently built Westwood Works of German engineering firm Werner, Pfleiderer & Perkins that subsequently changed its name to...
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Nobby the Tramp
A well known and much loved living legend of the city, "Nobby the Tramp" as he has been known in recent decades, became a...
Canary Cottage, Thorney
Any Peterborian who has headed east of Peterborough along the A47, maybe on a day trip to Hunstanton, will have seen the "cute" little...
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Hereward Video Library (1982)
A familiar interior to many 1980s Peterborians, the popular Hereward Video Library run by Eddie and Peggy Porter. This image was from May 1982.
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Orton Staunch on the River Nene
In the early 1700s, the Nene was considered navigable upstream only as far as the mill at Alwalton. Beyond that the river course was...
New Mermaid Inn, Wansford
The former New Mermaid Inn on the A1 at Wansford re-opened in 2016 after significant, superb and sympathetic restoration took it from the decaying...
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BRIDGE STREET
Saracens Head Hotel, Bridge Street
The Saracens Head Hotel on Bridge Street, more or less opposite what would today be the entrance to Rivergate.
The hotel was demolished 14th February...
Narrow Street
Looking along Narrow Street towards Market Place in the early 1900s. The building behind the Angel Hotel sign would be on the site of...
Bridge Street in the Seventies
Does the pedestriansed Bridge Street really look better today ?
I'm not so sure !
A Snowy Broad Bridge Street (1909)
A cold and bleak scene on Broad Bridge Street, pictured from around Town Bridge in 1909.
Angel Hotel – Narrow Street
An excellent shot of the Angel Hotel on Narrow Street.
The Angel operated as an Inn on the site as far back as the 1400s when the...
