Baxter & Guion, Potato Merchants
A lorry from Baxter & Guion who were potato merchants. This mid 1960s image was probably taken near their office on Midland Road.
Peterborough Hospital Nurses
Prize giving day for nurses at Peterborough Memorial Hospital in the mid 1960s.
Midland Road (1981)
A view of Midland Road in 1981 captured from the junction with Thorpe Road.
Peterborough District Hospital (1940s)
The operating theatre at Peterborough District Hospital being sandbagged for wartime protection in the early 1940s.
NI Yeomanry Leaving Peterborough (1914)
I have to confess this is an image I know nothing about apart from the text "NI Yeomanry Leaving Peterborough 1914". I neither know...
New Legion Club (1920)
This old 1920 image shows the New Legion Club which was soon to be lost under the development of the War Memorial Hospital which...
Memorial Hospital Opening Programme (1928)
The souvenir programme from the 1928 opening of Peterborough's Memorial Hospital.
Cole & Son Nurseries, Midland Road
A lovely old 1923/1924 plant catalogue issued by JW Cole & Son nurseries on Midland Road.
Sykes Scrapyard, Milton Street
Two remarkable images showing the scrapyard of Harry Sykes which was on Midland Road.
The collection of cars and Hawker Horlsey aircraft would undoubtedly fetch...











