Chris Porsz

Can you remember Cathedral Square looking like this?

Looking back at Peterborough’s bustling city centre in the 1980s

Three youngsters sitting inside Queensgate shortly after it opened

10 heartwarming photos of everyday Peterborough folk in the 1980s

Her Majesty opening The Cresset in 1978. Did you see her?

12 fascinating photos of Peterborough people from the late 1970s

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

Chris Porsz's latest book captures some of the characters seen in London

London Calling: Peterborough photographer takes on the Capital for his new book

A cataract operation at PCH in 2015

Looking Back: A quick but life-changing op

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

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

Looking Back: The 'tea break' nurses reunited

The nurses in 2010 at PDH

Looking Back: Changes in nurses' uniforms over the years

The air ambulance landing in 2015

Looking Back: When the Air Ambulance arrived

The 2011 ECH demolition under way

Looking Back: Goodbye ECH, hello PCH

The newly built PCH and soon-to-be demolished ECH in 2010

Looking Back: The new City Hospital in 2010

The former Edith Cavell Hospital

Looking back: Memories of Edith Cavell Hospital

The 1982 photo in Bridge Street

Looking Back: NHS disputes are nothing new

PDH being demolished in 2015

Looking Back: Farewell to Peterborough District Hospital

The 2010 photo of the PDH site after it closed

Looking Back: Memories of my place of work
I took this image of Peterborough District Hospital shortly after it had closed in October 2010, when all services moved to the new City Hospital at Bretton, writes street photographer Chris Porsz.
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The Sessions House when it was open as a carvery restaurant

Looking Back: The Sessions House on Thorpe Road

The 2016 photo

Looking Back: School preserves the memorial

Chris Porsz is trying to trace people in his photographs

Remembering Peterborough's Lynch Farm Riding School

The scene in Bridge Street in 1980

Looking Back: A police incident in Bridge Street in 1980

A wonderful picture of young visitors to the park - do you know them?

Do you recognise anyone in these great pictures from Ferry Meadows?

Bridge Street in 1980

Bridge Street before pedestrianisation

The 1980 photo

Looking Back: Billboards on Broadway in 1980

The 1980 scene showing the Salvation Army thrift shop

Looking Back: Remember the Salvation Army shop in Broadway in 1980?

The 1982 shot across the river

Looking Back: A frozen River Nene in the 1980s

Back in 2010 when this place on the corner of Broadway housed the JobCentre

Looking Back: Job Centre that is now apartments

The 2010 photo from the top of PDH

A wintry view from the top of PDH
In 2010 I captured this scene from the roof of Peterborough District Hospital (built in 1964) shortly before the move to PCH, writes street photographer Chris Porsz.
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The 1980s panto Robin Hood

Looking Back: A 1980s hospital tradition - panto!

A packed Queensgate in the 80s - remember BHS?

Looking Back: A very festive Queensgate

Cathedral Square in the late seventies

Looking Back: Christmas past and present

Cathedral Square looking very festive in the late 1970s

Looking Back: Four trees in the 1970s

1981 - Steve Nurse sell the Evening Telegraph in Cathedral Square.

‘Evening Telegraph! Evening Telegraph!’ - in all weathers

The city centre photo from 1980

Looking Back: How the city centre has changed

Who was mowing the lawn in 1982?

Looking Back: Who knows the mower from 1982?

The "sugar cube" memorial being dismantled

Looking Back: Moving stories behind memorials

The photo taken around 1979 - with a van and bus passing by Cathedral Square

Looking Back: Flowers, trees and traffic seen through The Guildhall

Images from Chris Porsz's new book Click! - which goes on sale in the UK this month.

In Pictures: Photographer captures quirky British street life for his new book

The 1980s photo of the bus depot

Peterborough bus depot down the years

Chris' 1984 photo of Bob Renphrey in the city centre

Looking Back: The eccentric and superstitious Bob Renphrey

Bridge Street in the 1990s - local legend Nobby

Looking Back: A Peterborough legend in Bridge Street

Chris' photo from the 1970s

Looking Back: Remember Ellwoods Butchers at Hereward Cross?

The fencing around the entrance to Peterborough's Guildhall

Council to work with Peterborough Positive on 'eyesore' fencing at Guildhall

Workers replace battered fencing outside the entrance of the historic Guildhall in Peterborough city centre

Welcome for 'first step' in move to enhance appearance of historic Guildhall

The 1970s photo on Town Bridge

Looking Back: Changing views from the bridge

From the late seventies

Chris Porsz: Keeping warm in winter in Peterborough

Chris' original photo from 2011 with Ian, Kirk and Jason

Looking Back: Always a friendly welcome on the market!

The market seen from up high in 2009

Looking back on a bustling city market

Cathedral Square in the early 80s - who were the three ladies outside the bank?

Looking Back: From bank to coffee shop

The 1985 photo outside the ABC cinema in Broadway

The 1980s... when O'Neill's was the ABC

City Council offices known as Bayard Place - now Bayard Plaza - being built in the early 1990s

Building Bayard Place in the early 90s

Long Causeway in the 1980s

How Long Causeway has changed since the 1980s

The three statues that were originally outside city centre offices.

Remember the Gormley statues in Peterborough city centre back in the 1980s?

The 1980 photo - readers will remember the names on the shopfronts.

The changing face of Peterborough city centre's Church Street

The Mitchell Construction offices along the river bank. •You can buy Chris’s Reunion books from www.chrisporsz.com and help his breast cancer research fundraising.

The changing views from Peterborough's Town Bridge

2010 - the mural on the wall of Mitchell Construction offices

Peterborough's Bridge House and its magnificent Mitchell Engineering mural