City of Khaki

06/12/1914

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Today men from the 5th Essex Regiment, the East Anglians, the Norfolk & Suffolk Army Service Corps, the Norfolk Regiment and the East Anglian Field Ambulance attended a church service in St John's. With over 3,000 troops in winter training quarters locally, many people commented that Peterborough had become a 'city of khaki'. (Bull, J & V., Perry, S. and Sturgess, R., Peterborough - a third portrait in old picture postcards, S.B. Publications, 1990)

Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.

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Consecration of the Railwaymen's Church

28/05/1869

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St Paul's church - often called the Railwaymen's church - was consecrated at midday on this Friday by William Connor Magee, the Bishop of Peterborough. Built on land given by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the church cost £4,600 of which £3,500 was given by the directors of the Great Northern Railway. The first vicar was the Revd Charles Ball, who stayed for seventeen years, during which time Peterborough continued its rapid growth. He then moved on to the new parish of All Saints, which had been founded out of pieces of the parishes of St Mark's, St Mary's and St Paul's. (Perry, Stephen, Peterborough Vol. 2 - a second portrait in old picture postcards, S.B. Publications, 1989) Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.