Call for Integration

13/07/1968

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Speaking to the Dogsthorpe Road Ukrainian Club, city alderman Walter Setchfield said that, for the sake of immigrants' children, racial ghettoes in Peterborough must not be allowed to exist any longer. People of all races, colours and creeds must be inter-mixed and intermingled with city natives to prevent 'second-class citizens' in the next generation. He went on to say that different races should not be allowed to stick together in tight communities but must be scattered about the city. Time so often shows that ideals and realities rarely match. (Peterborough Evening Telegraph)

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

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Last Catholic Bishop

15/08/1559

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David Pole, the last Catholic Bishop of Peterborough, was consecrated on this day. He had taken up office following the death of Bishop Chambers in 1556, but his formal consecration had been delayed. He was the personal nominee of Queen Mary Tudor but his actual appointment appears to have been driven by the influence of Pope Paul IV. Unsubstantiated claims say he was the illegitimate brother of Cardinal Pole - a papal legate to England! On Mary's death and the accession of Queen Elizabeth, his days were numbered. Following his refusal to acknowledge Elizabeth's supremacy in the church, he was excluded from the bishopric. (Carnell, Geoffrey, The Bishops of Peterborough, RJL Smith & Associates, 1993)

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