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NAAFI Advert (1940s)
A wartime advert looking to recruit for the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) at their local Broadway HQ.
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Nobby the Tramp
A well known and much loved living legend of the city, "Nobby the Tramp" as he has been known in recent decades, became a...
Canary Cottage, Thorney
Any Peterborian who has headed east of Peterborough along the A47, maybe on a day trip to Hunstanton, will have seen the "cute" little...
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Woodston School, Oundle Road
Woodston School at its original site on Oundle Road in 1910, prior to its relocation to Wharf Road. To the right of the school...
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New Mermaid Inn, Wansford
The former New Mermaid Inn on the A1 at Wansford re-opened in 2016 after significant, superb and sympathetic restoration took it from the decaying...
Canary Cottage, Thorney
Any Peterborian who has headed east of Peterborough along the A47, maybe on a day trip to Hunstanton, will have seen the "cute" little...
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BRIDGE STREET
Angel Hotel
Looking back down Narrow Street towards the Market Square with the arched entrance to the Angel Hotel on the left. This would be pretty...
Coronation Procession (1911)
A procession on (Broad) Bridge Street to celebrate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary on 22nd June 1911 and photographed from...
Meet me at the City !
Saw this superb advertising sign being sold on ebay recently ...... the seller claims he rescued it during the demolition of the old City...
Coronation Day 1911
The top image shows a packed Market Square and Long Causeway on the occasion of the coronation of George V on 22nd June 1911.
Below...
Last Days of Narrow (Bridge) Street (1927)
Locals gathering to ponder the imminent demise of Narrow (Bridge) Street in 1927 ? On the left is the boarded up premises of printers...
