St Peter's Isolation Hospital (also known as Peterborough Fever Hospital…
This image shows a horse and carriage near the entrance to Thorpe Park.&…
A view of a young boy sitting on the edge of the pond in Thorpe Village…
This is a picture of the Fox and Hounds Public House, Thorpe Village nea…
The Bishops Gardens, just to the South of the Cathedral show a young fam…
The memorial fountain to Peterborough’s first Mayor, Henry Pearson Gat…
This is a view of the River Nene looking north along Broad Street which…
This shows a view at sunset of the River Nene near the old Customs House…
You may have seen the plaque on the side of a building in Cumbergate dec…
Florence Saunders was the youngest daughter of Augustus Saunders, Dean o…
In 1904 Werner Pfleiderer and Perkins established a new factory close to…
Though a free public library had been open in the city since 1893, it wa…
The firm was founded in London in 1867 by Peter Brotherhood, an engineer…
The Hippodrome music hall opened on Broadway. In 1908 it was taken over…
Peterborough's first roller skating rink opened in 1877 and several grac…
The Russell family, Earls and Dukes of Bedford, had control of the villa…
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst the leader of the Women's Social and Political Un…
The Great Pilgrimage was a march in Britain by suffragists campaigning n…
On Monday 21 April 1913 Mr William Cowling of New Fletton discovered a b…
On Thursday the 6th of August 1914, just after the outbreak of World War…
Thomas Hunter was born in County Durham in 1880 but emigrated as a young…
A family had a narrow escape when a GNER locomotive drove into their hou…
Looking up at the wind vane above the Lido, you might be confused by the…
A curious story of cake mastery in Peterborough entered the national pap…
It was with the Equal Franchise Act of 1928 that women over 21 were able…
Peter Boizot was born in Peterborough on 16th November 1929. He lived on…
Perkins engineering was founded in a small office in Peterborough in 193…
Lord David George Brownlow Cecil, also known as Lord Burghley, was born…
In 1933 Joseph Baker Engineering of Willesden moved to be Baker Perkins…
In April, during a game against Lincoln City Reserves, Peterborough Unit…
Peterborough Quaker Meeting House was opened. Designed by Quaker archite…
Professor Daphne Frances Jackson OBE was born in Peterborough in 1936. S…
The growth of Peterborough in the nineteenth century was thanks to the a…
The Second World War (WWII) was a war that lasted from 1st September 193…
The Town played a vital role with industry, airfields and a major railwa…
Many places in the UK state that they were the preferred home for Hitler…
The Battle of Britain was a major air campaign fought over southern Engl…
On the night of the 10th of May 1941 Britain experienced the heaviest ni…
During Warship Week at the end of 1941, Peterborough citizens “subscri…
Jimmy the Donkey was born in the early Twentieth Century and used to rai…
On 30 April 1945 a lorry taking German prisoners of war from Glatton cam…
On the 5th of July 1948, Health Secretary Aneurin Bevan launched the Nat…
A hand-drawn map from approximately 1950 was created to identify all of…
Edmund Hockridge was born in Vancouver, Canada. He moved to England afte…
The Jewish community in Peterborough had great delight in welcoming the…
Miss Annie Norah Hartley of Fletton Tower was the sister of celebrated a…
Peakirk Wildfowl Park was situated to the north of Peakirk. It owes its…
Peterborough United football Club were elected to the Fourth Division of…
Andy Bell is known around the world as one half of the pop group Erasure…
The Soke of Peterborough stops being ceremonially and traditionally part…
Ethel Granger holds the record for having the smallest waist in the worl…
After the Second World war the Memorial Hospital was no longer big enoug…
Peterborough was designated as a third-wave New Town in July 1967. In Fe…
Prior to the creation of Nene Park, there were very few recreational gre…
The world’s first mini roundabout (a roundabout without a central isla…
Britain first began talks to join the European Economic Community (EEC)…
Astronomer William Granger who lived with his wife Ethel and daughter Wi…
After being in existence for less than 10 years the County of Huntingdon…
Harold Wilson, the Leader of the Labour Party had promised in the Octobe…
In 1977 Thomas Cook, the travel agent opened its administrative headquar…
The Queensgate Centre was designed by Keith Maplestone the Development C…
The Queensgate shopping centre was opened by Queen Beatrix of the Nether…
Louis Smith was born in Peterborough on 22 April 1989 and was educated a…
Peterborough has been the birthplace of several medal-winning athletes,…
The Meeting House was extended on the eastern end to enable the addition…
In 1998 Peterborough gained autonomy from Cambridgeshire County Council…
Comedian Ernie Wise OBE, one half of the legendary double-act Morecambe…
On 11 September 2001 nineteen male terrorists hijacked four fuel-loaded…
HMP Peterborough was opened in March 2005 on the former site of the Bake…
Peterborough City Hospital was opened to patients in November 2010. It r…
The census taken in 2011 shows the diversity of people to be found in th…
Discount fashion retailer Primark opened a store in Queensgate shopping…
The United Kingdom European Union (EU)membership referendum took place o…
Peterborough’s British Home Stores (BHS) shop in Queensgate closed its…
Wheelchair basketball ace Lee Manning is a highly successful city athlet…
Solar panels were installed few years earlier and in 2017 the internal w…
Aston Merrygold was born in Peterborough on 13th February 1988. He atten…
The world's oldest travel operator Thomas Cook, collapsed with the loss…
A new taxpayer-funded Catholic state school, believed to be the first in…
On 5 November 2020 a lockdown of England occurred to combat the second w…
It was announced on 24 March 2021 that the John Lewis store in Queensgat…
