Nostalgia

Peterborough has just endured a wet and miserable month, but the city has experienced much worse flooding.

Peterborough has just endured a wet and miserable Easter, but it was nothing compared to 20 years ago.

Today’s photographs have a football theme with team pictures of Peterborough clubs through the ages.

This week’s pictures are another selection of Peterborough street views from the collection of Ray Preston from Millfield.

Regular readers will be aware that last year the Civic Society erected 20 new blue plaques in a variety of city centre locations.:

The second part of our look back at health services in the city focuses mainly on the people who have cared for and served their community.

Today Peterborough residents have a modern hospital to provide them with their medical needs (a burst pipe notwithstanding).

The majority of Looking Back pictures feature places but today’s selection sees the spotlight thrown on some well-known faces - both locally and nationally.

The pub is no longer the hub of community life it used to be (unless you live in Walford or Weatherfield!) but it is still an integral part of the British way of life.

Today’s Looking Back pictures are all about construction, or destruction if you prefer.

Today’s pictures are another odds and sods collection that always prove popular.

The creation of New Town status and the Peterborough Development Corporation led to a huge burst of house building in the city.

Local historian Stephen Perry has produced the latest in his excellent series of booklets on Peterborough.

The recent history of Peterborough is synonymous with house building. In the 70s the New Town status saw new townships created and thousands of homes built.

How best to deliver a public transport system is still a hot topic in most British cities.

All Wrapped Up in Westwood - a community play based on the experiences of people who worked at Freemans Distribution Centre in Peterborough - opens in the city on Thursday (26th).

Reader Tanya Craythorne came in with a treasure trove of old pictures that her grandfather David “Russell” Fowler, who recently celebrated his 95th birthday, handed to her in a large suitcase.

Today’s pictures come courtesy of Forterra, formerly Hanson, which has a special place in the Peterborough area’s industrial history.

No telling of the Peterborough story would be complete without a significant chapter on Perkins.