Kings Cliffe – The Cross
Locals posing for the camera at the centre of the village known as "The Cross" and its a scene that has not changed today...
Kings Cliffe Station
An excellent undated image showing Kings Cliffe Station which closed to passengers in 1966.
Kings Cliffe Saddlery c.1904
The village saddlery in Park Street, run at this time by Frederic Blake and previously by his father dating back to the 1860s.
Today the...
Kings Cliffe Railway Station
Passengers waiting for a Peterborough based train on the Northampton to Peterborough East line that has been part restored by the Nene Valley Railway.
Very...
Kings Cliffe Station (1965)
A Class 27 diesel engine hauls a Peterborough East to Northampton train into Kings Cliffe station in 1965, just one year prior to the station's...
Kings Cliffe, Bridge Street c.1907
Looking down Bridge Street from the junction with Park Street.
Kings Cliffe POW Letter (1946)
A censored post-war message home from a German prisoner of war still at POW Camp 702 which was on the Kings Cliffe airfield. The...
Kings Cliffe POW Camp Manual
A US War Department instruction manual for English which was handed to German POWs, in this case at RAF #1 Camp which was a...
Postcard from Peterborough POW
A fascinating 1944 postcard sent back home from a German prisoner of war based at Camp 702 which was somewhere in Kings Cliffe although...
Kings Cliffe airfield control tower
There are few more poignant or more atmospheric buildings in the Peterborough area than the old control tower on Kings Cliffe's WW2 airfield.
Very few of these...
