Anabelles Night Club – 1977 Advert
A 1977 advert for one of Peterborough's few nightspots in the late 1970s, Anabelles on Bridge Street.
Rebuilding of Black Bridge
Workmates pose for the camera after they had rebuilt "Black Bridge" which had been destroyed by fire in 1963
Bishops Road Bus Station (c.1944)
Bishops Road bus station pictured in 1944 or 1945
New England Shed
Ivatt 4MT #43084 at its home base at New England Shed in March 1964 just before heading up north to Barrow Hill to see...
Boots, Church Street
Boots on Church Street off Market Place in the 1960s.
Despite the Elizabethan appearance of the building, it was only built in the early 1900s. This early store was...
Frederick Goodacre Medals
Frederick Claridge Goodacre was born in 1882 and lived at 121 Cromwell Road.
His medals, left to right are ..... 1914-15 Star, British War Medal...
Lovells Garage, Westgate
Lovells Garage on Westgate with Becketts Butchers next door to the left. Today this would be pretty much across the road from the Wortley Almshouses.
Wirrina Stadium, Bishops Road (1968-2010)
Music fans will have fond memories of 2000+ fanatics crammed in for all-nighter Northern Soul weekends and even the visit of several late 70s A-list...
“Austerity” Heavy Freight (1949)
A seemingly un-numbered Austerity 2-8-0 heavy freight engine passing New England yard in 1949. The Austerity engines numbered more than 900 and were mass...
Sir Nigel Gresley at Peterborough North (1958)
LNER A4 #60007 "Sir Nigel Gresley" awaiting departure from Peterborough North with a Kings Cross train in 1958.
