Looking Back: Pictures from Rita’s archives

This week’s photographs come courtesy of Werrington resident Rita McKenzie.

Rita got in touch and told me she had boxes and boxes of old pictures of Peterborough from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s and would I like to use them in this column.

The Barretts department store being demolished on the corner of Midgate and Long Causeway - in the background you can see the taller building on the TSB bank.

placeholder image — The Barretts department store being demolished on the corner of Midgate and Long Causeway - in the background you can see the taller building on the TSB bank.

I was delighted and my colleague David Lowndes has copied the first batch which we shall feature over the coming weeks… and probably years!

Many of them are familiar sights (such as the first three featured today) and need little or no explanation but others are more mysterious, certainly for newbies like me... I’ve only been here 20 odd years!