The Great Fire of 1956
In August 1956, fifty firemen turned out to fight a major fire on Cowgate that destroyed both Robert Sayle's department store and Turner's shoe...
Blue Bell Inn, Cowgate (c.1900)
The Blue Bell Inn on Cowgate around 1900. In later life this building became the more familiar Robertsons Cycle Shop which only stopped trading...
Cowgate Graveyard – Wilfrid Wood (1945)
A wonderful watercolour painting of the top end of Cowgate and showing the old graveyard.
The painting dates to 1945 and was produced by urban...
Cowgate (1974)
The top end of Cowgate in 1974 showing the drapery store of Armstrongs.
Robertsons Cycle Shop
From the Peterborough Evening Telegraph on 15th February 2011 .........
A bike shop which has kitted out generations of Peterborough cyclists is to close after...
Cowgate Roundabout
Construction work taking place on the Cowgate roundabout and Bourges Boulevard in the 1970s.
UK Aerial Post Letter (1911)
What appears to be a letter sent on the first day of the Aerial Post Service in 1911 to Pharmacist John William Bodger of...
Cowgate Roundabout
A view of the top end of Cowgate on completion of Bourges Boulevard and the Cowgate roundabout.
Williamsons Removals, Cowgate (1955)
A 1955 photograph featuring a Morris 5 ton Pantechnicon belonging to Williamsons Removals & Storage of Cowgate.
Cowgate (1940s)
The top end of Cowgate, probably pictured in the 1940s.
