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From: Jayne R

To: peterborough_memories@...

Cc: Nik Williams

Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:50 PM

Subject: Re: [peterborough_memories] Building with letters TA?

Is it Territorial Army? It sounds obvious but it could well be.

---- Nik Williams <nik_sadie@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I hope you are all ok. I just received an e-mail from someone asking about the building opposite Westgate House on Park Road. I know the building, but have no idea what the TA could mean or what the building was originally. Any ideas?
>
> This is the e-mail:
>
> in park road there is a building opposite Westgate house that thas the letters TA carved in the stone. its the building that stretches from the pound shop and ends above a hair dressers. any idea what it was originally? looks like it would have been a posh place when it was built
>
>
> Nik Williams
> www.peterboroughinpictures.co.uk - A history of Peterborough in photographs
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: peterborough_memories
> To: peterborough_memories@yahoogroups.co.uk
> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 11:37 AM
> Subject: [peterborough_memories] Re: Robert Sayle
>
>
> 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 be the Co-op Insurance. I absolutely promise you
> that Robert Sayle was on that site - I remember the fire and also
> when I worked at the Evening Telegraph there was a photo of the fire
> on the MD's office wall and it was certainly Cowgate..... just had
> the sense to look in my 1951 Peterborough Street Directory and it was
> on the corner of King Street. Bit depressing to remember that far
> back!
>
> Peterborough General Electric Co was on the opposite side of Cowgate
> at no. 8a and not far from Robert Sayle which was between 5 -15
> Cowgate. Good job I kept that book.
>
> Regards, Marion
>
> --- In peterborough_memories@yahoogroups.co.uk, "Nik & Sadie
> Williams" <nik_sadie@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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 location. The reason I ask, is that I have been handed some
> photos and the owner thought they were photos of a bomb blast (WW2)
> in Bridge Street. However, I'm quite certain that there wasn't many
> bombs dropped on p'boro and I don't think Bridge St was hit. Also, a
> couple of cars in the photo lead me to believe that they were taken
> post WW2. A couple of vehicles actually look like they are from the
> 1950s. I have a pretty good idea of the location these photos were
> taken (I don't believe they are of Bridge St.), and I suspect it is
> the Robert Sayle store.
> >
> > Also, does anyone remember a store by the name of the Peterborough
> Electric Company?
> >
> > I was going to pop in the library at the weekend to research this,
> but I thought I would test the group's knowledge first.
> >
> > Nik
> > www.peterboroughinpictures.co.uk
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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