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CITY CENTRE
Town Clerk’s Office Demolition (1950s)
The careful demolition in the 1950s of the old Town Clerk's Office and Police Station which used to provide the only access into the...
PUBLIC HOUSES
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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...
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...
CITY CENTRE
St Mark’s Church, Lincoln Road
A lovely early 1900s image showing St Mark's Church on Lincoln Road with a heavily laden "bag lady" on the street corner.
PUBLIC HOUSES
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The Watermill at Alwalton
Few people who take the scenic walk across the fields from the foot of Mill Lane, Alwalton to Castor will be aware that their...
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...
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BRIDGE STREET
Timothy Whites & Taylors, Bridge Street (1938)
The newly opened Bridge Street store of Timothy Whites & Taylors in 1938, the original name being derived from the 1935 merger between rival...
Scales & Sons, Narrow Street
A surviving enamel sign for Scales & Sons of 51 Narrow Street who were shoe and boot makers from c.1890 - c.1905
Copper Kettle Tea Room, Bridge Street
The busy shop front for the popular Copper Kettle Tea Room on Broad Bridge Street, captured some time in the 1930s.
1970s Peterborough from above
A fascinating pre-Queensgate aerial shot over the Bridge Street/Albert Place/Wentworth Street area of Peterborough.
Albert Place is visible from top right down to bottom left...
Marks & Spencer, Bridge Street (1964-2016)
25th February 2016 marked the final day of trading at the Bridge Street store of Marks & Spencer which was moving its business into...
