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Baker Perkins, Westwood Works Fire 1922

A fantastic collection of images kindly provided by Glyn and Cynthia Hall, showing the results of the Westwood Works fire in 1922.

The fire broke out in the Paint Shop during the early hours of 2nd March 1922 and rapidly spread with such intensity that the roof girders started to melt and buildings collapsed. Firemen from Peterborough City and Volunteer fire brigades tackled the fire, supported by the Old Fletton and Midland Railway brigades who brought the fire under control by dawn the following day.

Sunday School Pageant (1920s)

No idea of the location for this one but probably dating to early 1920s.

Kindly supplied by Glyn and Cynthia Hall who can confirm that it was a pageant organised by the Sunday School at Trinity Church on Priestgate.

Ladies Tug-Of-War !

A fascinating mystery photograph kindly supplied by Glyn and Cynthia Hall who are confident it is in Peterborough and that the lady at the left of the line is Huntly Grove based shop worker Lydia Rippon (b1896).

If anybody knows where this sizeable gathering was and/or can add further detail, please driop us a line !

Hayward & Towell Trade Stand

Peterborough Civic week, trade stand #20 belonging to Hayward & Towell Ltd.

The image was kindly provided by Glyn and Cynthia Hall and Cynthia added, “We think this photograph was taken in the early 1920s. The person on the right of the stand is my father Alexander William Wilson who was born in 1903 and he looks to be about 20. He later ran the small works division of Hayward & Towell from a workshop at the bottom end of Lincoln Road until the firm was taken over early in 1960. My father lost his job as a result and died in 1968. Our family home was at 92 Huntly Grove and I lived there from 1935 when I was born until 1960 when I married and moved away from Peterborough”.