1941: Following a Ministry of Home Security circular on the carrying of gas masks, a Mrs Mellows organised four lectures aimed principally at housewives of active servicemen, on how to handle a gas situation. The second talk was held on this day. Each lecture covered: latest information about gas attacks; first aid for gas casualties; how to protect yourself and dealing with incendiary bombs and fires. All lectures were very well attended. (Gray, David, Peterborough at War 1939-1945, David Gray, 2011)
Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.
1759: The constable's book of St Kyneburga's church at Castor shows a claim of 1s for the constable 'returning a warrant to prevent ye Cox being holled at on Shrove Tuesday'. This relates to him seeking to prevent a long-standing custom of throwing stones at a cockerel tied to a stake on Shrove Tuesday - something that continued in some parts of the country until the end of the eighteenth century. (Bunch, Allan and Liquorice, Mary, Parish Churches in and around Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Books, 1990)
Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press,2014.