Moderno Coffee Bar Plans (1958)
Plans for Peterborough's first Coffee Bar, The Moderno on Queen Street, as featured on the letters page of the Peterborough Advertiser in February 1958
Thomas Barrass, Baptist Minister
Baptist minister, Rev Thomas Barrass (nicknamed ‘the Nonconformist Bishop of Peterborough’) whose popularity was behind the construction of a new building on Queen Street...
Queen Street Baptist Chapel pre-1905
The ornate interior of the Baptist Chapel on Queen Street before the infamous fire on 16th October 1905 that destroyed it.
Queen Street Baptist Church
A wonderful old but surviving banner from Queen Street Baptist Church and probably dating to the late 1800s.
Queen’s Street c.1908
The Cowgate end of Queen Street looking towards what is now the Queensgate Centre.
The building on the right is the Bedford Temperance Hotel and...
Queen Street Baptist Chapel (1905)
The morning after the fire that destroyed the Queen Street Baptist Chapel on 16th October 1905 with a pre-fire image below.
Queen’s Street c.1962
Queen Street heading into Westgate in the distance ...... now largely buried under Queensgate !
Queen Street (1970s)
Looking along Queen Street towards Westgate in the early 1970s and not long before this entire scene was buried under the Queensgate shopping centre. Today...
Amies & Barford Drain Cover (1865)
A very nice and rare agricultural cast iron drain cover made by Amies & Barford. Dated 1865, this was produced seven years before Thomas...
Baptist Chapel & Barrass Memorial Hall c.1905
Pictured sometime shortly after opening in 1904 on Queen Street and most definitely sometime before they were both badly damaged by fire in October...
