Retro

Reputedly the most haunted building in the city, the historic Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery was once a hospital.

WATCH: Is Peterborough Museum really the most haunted place in the city..?

BBC weather presenter Michael Fish was quick to play down the storm's potential

Reader memories to mark 39 years since the Great Storm of 1987 hit Peterborough

A stage adaptation of hit BBC sitcom Porridge (inset) is coming to New Theatre next year.

70s sitcom to return to stage with new adaptation coming to Peterborough

Central Park's sunken garden in 2009

Looking Back: Central Park's sunken garden in all its glory

Do you remember shopping in Timothy Whites?

10 vintage photos of Peterborough people and places in the 1960s

Have you ever wondered about this concrete block beneath the Nene Viaduct?

The little-known Peterborough WW2 relic that you've walked past without knowing

This great snap shows a traditional 1980s corner shop. Cigarettes, tobacco and cigars proudly on sale, as was the norm for the era.

8 nostalgic photos of Peterborough shop owners and market traders from the 1980s

Originally built in 1842, the Grade II listed Sessions House on Thorpe Road has sat empty for the past 14 years.

The history and future of Sessions House

Some superb punk haircuts on show here!

Inside Peterborough’s Queensgate Shopping Centre when it first opened in 1982

Deeping St James Cross was built in the 15th century.

The medieval monument near Peterborough that became a lock-up for drunken locals

Antony Gormley statue in Cowgate

Do you still 'look up' at the rooftop statues overlooking Cathedral Square?

Born in Alwalton in 1863, Henry Royce would famously go on to co-found Rolls-Royce. Dissatisfied with the poor quality of early motor cars, he designed and built his own car in 1904, creating the Royce 10. His engineering talent attracted the attention of Charles Rolls, a wealthy motoring pioneer and car dealer. The two met in 1904 and formed a partnership, with Rolls agreeing to sell cars built by Royce. In 1906, their businesses combined to form Rolls-Royce Limited, which quickly became renowned for producing some of the world's finest motor cars. Royce had a Peterborough pub named after him, which closed earlier this year.

5 inventions that Peterborough gave to the world

A busy Saturday rail scene at Peterborough East station in April 1964.

GALLERY: Remembering 'Peterborough East' railway station

Fun at Ferry Meadows

How a Peterborough bank holiday would’ve been spent in the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s

Cathedral Square in the early 1970s

10 nostalgic photos that capture life in Peterborough in the early 1970s

The first skeletons were found in July

What happens to the 37 skeletons that were found at the Queensgate roundabout?
Tombs and burial chambers have also been found
Daniel DeFalco

Situated west of Peterborough on the banks of the River Nene, Fotheringhay is best known for its church, All Saints, which stands dominant above the flat landscape. The impressive building was rebuilt between 1411 and the 1430s as a college of priests. The remains of Fotheringhay Castle - founded around 1100 - can still be found in the village.

8 medieval villages near Peterborough that have barely changed in centuries

The opening of the Serpentine Green Shopping Centre in 1999

These 10 retro photos show a very different Peterborough in the late 1990s

Fotheringhay Castle - an 11th century Norman motte-and-bailey fortress - was founded by Simon de Senlis, Earl of Northampton.As well as being the birthplace of King Richard III, the castle was the location of Mary, Queen of Scots’ trial and execution in 1587. Today only a small section of the castle’s masonry remains intact, which visitors can find to the very east of the village.

5 castles that dominated the skyline near Peterborough hundreds of years ago

Toby Wood (right) in August 1969 when he was running the first summer playscheme based at Neighbourhood House, 30 Cromwell Road.

Civic Pride: Our ever-changing multicultural city

Saturday, August 22 marks exactly 70 years since the fire

IN PHOTOS: Remembering the Great Fire of Peterborough 70 years on

Bridge Steet was known as Narrow Street a hundred years ago.

GALLERY: Peterborough’s Bridge Street looked VERY different 100 years ago

Bikers outside The Norfolk pub

Memories of the ‘old school’ Peterborough pub that poured its last pint in 2001

Zookeepers are delighted with the way Bulan has settled into his new home.

Town Bridge was built over 90 years ago.

Archive footage of Town Bridge showcases Peterborough’s aged river crossing

The oncology day unit in 2015

Looking Back: Another busy day at PCH

A cataract operation at PCH in 2015

Looking Back: A quick but life-changing op

One more time on the dancefloor

50 years Peterborough's Anabelles.... one more time
A 50th anniversary celebration of Peterborough’s ‘original’ nightclub Anabelles proved such a big hit that the organisers are doing it all over again!
Brad Barnes

The Peter Pan on Eastern Avenue in Dogsthorpe.

GALLERY: Peterborough pubs from the 1970s

Set on a three-acre site at the bottom of Cowgate, the Parish Burial Ground was in use from 1805 and 1858.

GALLERY: What Peterborough's old burial ground looked like before Queensgate

Queensgate Roundabout was built on the old Parish burial ground

The Victorian graveyard that existed on the site of the Queensgate Roundabout

Oundle Road

More calls for action to make Oundle Road safer

PDH in 1982

Looking Back: From uniforms to scrubs!

Rauceby Hospital Cemetery. Photo: Jo Thompson

Hospital cemetery group called upon to help trace last resting place of patient

Sam Draper with a copy of the newspaper from 1969

Moon landing front page uncovered during bookshop makeover

A recent event at the museum

Step back in time at King's Cliffe Airfield Museum’s summer open day

Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town comes to the Key Theatre in September

50 years after The Two Ronnies, the Phantom returns

Peterborough City Centre in the 1960s - Church Street, which was home to Hepworths

Civic Pride: 1966 and all that... football 1, shopping 0

Radiographer Steve Littlefare and doctor J Urwin in 1980

Looking Back: X-raying the way it used to be

Do you remember Long Causeway looking like this?

12 amazing photos that prove why the 1970s was Peterborough’s golden era

The National Trust is offering free access to Lyveden this weekend

Free entry to ‘mysterious’ Lyveden National Trust site this weekend

1984 in the Biochemistry Department at Peterborough District Hospital

Looking Back: How technology has changed

Canary Cottage dates back to 1750

Inside Canary Cottage - the mysterious A47 landmark near Peterborough

A reminder that Waitrose used to be in Queensgate

Peterborough as it used to be: The opening of Queensgate Bus Station

The Crown - the start of the most famous pub crawl in Peterborough

What the local boozers on Peterborough's Crown to Town pub crawl look like now

Queensgate under construction

8 era-defining photos of Queensgate Shopping Centre being built

A small army of dedicated volunteers take care of the library

Inside Peterborough Cathedral’s hidden library that’s off-limits to the public

2015- Health Care Assistants at Peterborough City Hospital

Looking Back: A crucial part of the NHS team

Stanground Lode in the early 1980s

Heartwarming Peterborough photos from the 1980s that capture a generation

The 1914 team photograph of the Westwood Works football team

Peterborough’s football heritage: A look through the Archives

Demolition of the Moy's End stand at London Road in 2013.

15 photos of Peterborough landmarks being demolished over recent years

The 1980s Britain: Money Changes Everything exhibition at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery

Back to the 80s - new exhibition explores the decade that changed Britain

The museum's ground floor

Inside the ‘mini Jurassic Park’ museum near Peterborough packed with fossils

A hot day in Cathedral Square during the 1970s.

15 nostalgic photos of Peterborough heatwaves in years gone by

This site in Cowgate is the location of the old Parish Burial Ground, in use from 1805 to 1858. Prior to this, a lay cemetery to the north of the cathedral has been used.

10 fascinating Peterborough blue plaques to discover this summer

Karen Belson, Maggie Moore, Anita Downs and Jane Kew reunited in 2020

Looking Back: The 'tea break' nurses reunited