Looking back: Peterborough’s Queensgate taking shape

Peterborough street photographer Chris Porsz has featured almsot all of the city’s most iconic scenes in the last few decades.

Here are some more pictures Chris Porsz took of the Queensgate centre.

Precarious working conditions on the Queensgate construction site. Picture: Chris Porszplaceholder image
Precarious working conditions on the Queensgate construction site. Picture: Chris Porsz

The colour pictureshows a bustling centre taken around 1983.

Who remembers when Littlewoods and Top Shop were there?

The bus station under construction. Picture: Chris Porszplaceholder image
The bus station under construction. Picture: Chris Porsz

Chris said: “The picture left was taken in the late seventies when you could see the cathedral from the railway station.”

He points out the workman had: “No hard hats, high vis, safety rails or harnesses.”

The final picture shows work underway on the bus station.

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