1988: The Peterborough Evening Telegraph reported on this day that, despite city councillors having decided that extra security for city flats was needed to beat thieves, vandals, vagrants and the like, their £475,000 scheme for entry phones and electric locks for every flat would not be completed until 2004, unless extra cash was found.
Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.
Quakers Move to Peterborough to Join Baker Perkins
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In 1933 Joseph Baker Engineering of Willesden moved to be Baker Perkins in Peterborough and a significant number of Friends (Quakers) moved with them.
As the time for the move from Willesden to Peterborough approached, many weekend trips were organised to enable the Willesden employees to find accommodation. Some of these were undertaken by bicycle. Satisfactory arrangements were made for the necessary housing at no cost to the Company. Between March and September 1933, most of the Friends (Quakers) who had agreed to make the transfer were re-housed in a new development in Willesden Avenue.
On 18th June 1933 meetings for worship started in an upstairs room of a warehouse in King Street.
