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- 8 photos on Peterborough appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Peterborough
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Peterborough memories
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Peterborough Grammar School for Girls
Does anyone have photographs of the Grammar School on Cobden Avenue? I was there for a couple of years before I moved away with my family and have vivid memories of the main school buildings and the three storey house on the corner where we also studied. On the way up the hill to school there was a coalyard wher they kept the massive black horses used to pull the coal carts - am I really old enough to recall horse-drawn coal deliveries? Actually, our milk was also delivered using a horse and cart. I remember too the shop where we had to go to buy the school uniform - it had a complicated pulley system to ...read more here
Contributed by Marilyn Messenger
Cambridgeshire memories
Peterborough Grammar School for Girls
Does anyone have photographs of the Grammar School on Cobden Avenue? I was there for a couple of years before I moved away with my family and have vivid memories of the main school buildings and the three storey house on the corner where we also studied. On the way up the hill to school there was a coalyard wher they kept the massive black horses used to pull the coal carts - am I really old enough to recall horse-drawn coal deliveries? Actually, our milk was also delivered using a horse and cart. I remember too the shop where we had to go to buy the school uniform - it had a complicated pulley system to ...read more here
A memory of Peterborough contributed by Marilyn Messenger
childhood memory
The old photographs helped me remember some lovely memories of when I was a very young child, when it was a daily routine walking past the old brick works to go to Eye school, I believe that just past the brick works (obviously depending on which way you were walking) there was a bridge that went over the old railway.
My father Sid Earnshaw knew Bill Oliver who worked at the site and his brother Ray, sadly my father is no longer here, but the pictures were wonderful to see, and I cannot help but feel a little sad that Eye now looks nothing like it was when I was a child, but thats progress I suppose!! Although it's not all ...read more here
Crowland Road
My uncle, Bill Oliver, who lived in Crowland Road used to work at the brickyards pictured. He worked on the kilns. I can remember on Sunday mornings going to see my uncle and my nan, Florrie Oliver. My dad Russell Oliver and I used to cycle over the old bridge which is now part of the Ete bypass. I was born in Eye in Northam Terrace just of the Crowland Road and lived there till I was 21. I now live in Stilton.
A memory of Eye contributed by SUE BOON
Extracts From Peterborough & Cambridgeshire books
The cathedral rose from the monastery originally founded in 654 by Paeda, the king of Mercia. The present building is Norman, and is one of only three churches in Europe with an early painted wooden ceiling in its nave; of those three, Peterborough’s is by far the biggest.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
This view shows the west front of the Cathedral, with a tram crossing the Market Place in front. Note the shutters covering the windows of Burlingham’s watchmakers and jewellers.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
Here, we are looking along Cowgate towards the market place. Just out of sight is the magnificent 17th-century Guildhall, supported by columns to provide an open ground floor.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
This atmospheric photograph, taken from St John’s Church, shows Peterborough Cathedral’s bulk rising above the rooftops. We have a good view of the striking and dramatic west front with its trio of huge arches, richly moulded and recessed into the façade, dating from c1220. The central Galilee porch and the little spires were added in the late 14th century.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Cathedrals".
The slip, or slype, is a narrow passage between the cloisters and Laurel Court, the school where Nurse Edith Cavell taught. She was a heroine of the First World War, condemned to death and shot by firing squad in 1915 for helping prisoners escape. Above the slip, the cathedral soars, its architectural details showing its Norman origins.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Cathedrals".