BY ANDREW PERCIVAL, S.S.C., With Eight Illustrations, INCLUDING Portrait of the Author. Arranged, Published, and Sold by Special Permission of the Author, BY The PETERBOROUGH ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Decorative graphic ONE SHILLING. Decorative graphic PETERBOROUGH: GEO. C. CASTER, MARKET PLACE. 1905. [ Reprinted from type of the “ Peterborough Advertiser .”]...

The Reminiscences of a Citizen whose memory goes back in detail for over Seventy Years, as in the case of the Contributor of these Notes, cannot fail to be of paramount interest and of antiquarian value.  Especially in this case, where the distinguished Narrator has held a very foremost place in the Professional life and Voluntary Public Service of the City.  Additionally interesting must they prove in the case of a City which has developed from a comparatively small parish into a populous indus

City Toll Gates .— How Toll was Levied .— The Infirmary .— Old City Breweries .— The Calculating Boy .— Starting the Railways .— Frisby’s Feat .— Tales of the Coaching Days .— Tally-Ho Coach .— A Contrast .— A Story of Lord Fitzwilliam .— Smothering the Cathedral .— The Old Mill .— Simpson’s Packet .— Mr. Whalley’s Joke .— Postal Charges .— Franking Letters .— The City Beadle .— Parish Constables and Gaol .— A Notorious Family .— Fairs .— City Bells .— Sedan Chairs .— Whittlesey Mere . When I ca

An Oasis in the Desert .— Old System of Castor Farming .— A Lighted Beacon .— The Fen Around Us .— Draining the Great Level .— The Mill System of Draining .— Snatched From the Sea .— How Land Improved in Value .—“ Intelligent Fenmen .”— Old Town Bridge .— Old-time Jaunt through the City .— Poor House and New Gaol .— Thorpe Road Hostelry .— Newtown .— The Great Breweries and the Ponds .— Cabbage Row .— Burial at Cross Roads .— Frog Hall .— Gas Works Started .— Old Market .— Ladies and the Cattle

Newspapers .— Distemper .— Guildhall .— Hangings .— Daring Burglaries .— A Lock-up Story .— An Alibi .— The Mud Case .— When the Railways First Came .— Retrospective . In my former Notes I alluded to the Post Office.  Well, the first Post Office I recollect was a little room about 10ft. square—I think it has been altered since—in one of those houses at the back of the “White Lion” gates.  An old gentleman lived there who was Postmaster, and I think he was assisted, being rather infirm, by his da