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Re: Robert Sayle


Eastern Electricity actually took over the Gas Showroom at a later
date. Christine

--- In peterborough_memories@..., "Martin"
<martin.subs@...> wrote:
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> I worked for Eastern Electricity as it was then, and the shop if I
remember
> rightly is now Waterstones?
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> You could walk through from Bridge street and out into is it Wentworth
> Street? Next to M&S

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> From: peterborough_memories@...
> [mailto:peterborough_memories@...] On Behalf Of Christine
> Chadwick
> Sent: 14 September 2007 13:21
> To: peterborough_memories@...
> Subject: [peterborough_memories] Re: Robert Sayle
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> I thought it was Eastern Electricity, Nik - the same side as the town
> hall. The Gas company was the other side of the road. We actually
> used to go in and pay our bill inside each of them!
>
> Christine
>




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Good Evening everyone! I have a quick question regarding the shop known as Robert Sayle which was destroyed in a fire in 1956. What I would like to know is the...
Nik & Sadie Williams
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Sep 13, 2007
9:20 pm

I thought it was Eastern Electricity, Nik - the same side as the town hall. The Gas company was the other side of the road. We actually used to go in and pay...
Christine Chadwick
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Sep 14, 2007
12:23 pm

I worked for Eastern Electricity as it was then, and the shop if I remember rightly is now Waterstones? You could walk through from Bridge street and out into...
Martin
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Sep 14, 2007
1:43 pm

Eastern Electricity actually took over the Gas Showroom at a later date. Christine ... remember...
Christine Chadwick
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Sep 15, 2007
9:40 am

I don't think it's the same store. This one is called the Peterborough General Electric Company and sold things like Goblin hoovers, clocks, lamps, etc. Nik ...
Nik & Sadie Williams
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Sep 14, 2007
12:34 pm

Hi, Nik Robert Sayle's was in Cowgate, just about on the site of well can't be sure these days but it was on the corner of King Street and I think it used to...
peterborough_memories
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Sep 15, 2007
11:39 am

Marion, That's brilliant, because that is exactly what I suspected. Basically, the photos I have show a damaged building and St John's church can be seen above...
Nik & Sadie Williams
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Sep 15, 2007
11:48 pm

Nik, It's a pleasure. Looking forward to seeing the pictures. Marion ... church can be seen above the rooftops. I was told it was a photo of a WW2 bomb blast,...
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Sep 16, 2007
2:27 pm

I've spoken to Elderly Mother (TM) and she says Robert Sayles shop used to be on the corner of King Street (she thinks?) definately on Cowgate, and they had a...
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