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Good evening everyone! I managed to pull my finger out over the past few days and have updated the site. Last week I added a page showing Walton school being...
Hi there I'm passing this email on to you on behalf of my friend Betty from USA who is searching for two old friends. Below are the details of both families,...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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, 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,...
Just to let everyone know that I have banned, or at least if all the buttons I have pressed actually work, the mailme004 who sent the message about Windows. ...
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...
The spammers need hanging. Every day I am having to remove at least half a dozen from my forum. And because I have had computer problems for over a week I now...
Hi everybody. Its that time of year again and Deafblind UK have produced 6 different designs of Christmas cards this year, available directly from Head Office...
I've been chatting to my friend Reg who says he thinks somebody told him that the jockey W H Carr owned or co-owned a pub or hotel in Peterborough. Trouble is,...
Just to let you know I'm cutting down on the amount of emails I send and receive between now and New year, so if you need to contact me before then, please...
Hi Everybody I am looking for information and insignia of the old Police forces of Peterborough i.e. The Liberty, City and Combined. So if any one can help...
... Have you tried Thorpe Wood Police Station? I believe they have a small museum there. -- Robert Maskill www.ortoninfo.co.uk written in The Ortons & written...
Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I've received some information about a couple more cinemas that existed in Peterborough. The 'City Picture House' in Bridge...
Hi Everyone, I know this was a while back, but I am now working on the Peterborough Showground page for Peterborough In Pictures. I'd like to thank everyone...
The City Cinema was in Bridge Street, not far from Woolworths, and the same side. You could actually catch a bus directly outside before pedestrianisation....
Last week I replied to an ad in the Lincolnshire Free Press which read as follows:- "Crowland Abbey is able to offer everyone the opportunity to buy pieces of...
An old lady who is nearly 90 and who lives a few doors away from us has just been burgled by distraction burglars. They'd seen our scaffolding up from when we...
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,...
Hi Jayne, That's what I thought at first, but I'm only aware of the TA base only ever being on London Road, I'm most probably wrong about that though! Nik...
Hi Folks, I hope you are all well. It's been 2 months since I last updated Peterborough In Pictures, but I think the new page may have been worth the drought!...
Hi Folks, I hope you are all well. Just a little update here of Peterborough In Pictures. I've been a busy little so and so over the past few days. I've added...
Hi Folks, I hope you are all well! I had a brainwave the other day and thought it would be a good idea to add video clips to Peterborough In Pictures. So I...
